When to start fertility diet
The Fertility Diet | Infertility & TTC Journey
have you ever heard of this thing called
the fertility diet and have you done it
yourself
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hello everyone and welcome to my channel
my name is Rachel and I make lifestyle
videos here on YouTube currently my
husband and I are trying to conceive and
we have been trying to conceive for over
a year and a half now
um I kind of shared this journey with
you all if you're not familiar with our
journey and the specifics of it I will
have our playlist link down below for
you to reference in case you're
wondering more about our story today I
wanted to kind of talk about something
that I've heard about I haven't done it
myself in particular but I'd love to get
your all's feedback as well if you've
kind of went if you've done this or kind
of if it's worked for you or if it
hasn't so I've heard a little bit on
YouTube about the fertility diet from
people who are going through infertility
themselves and I also started
researching it a little bit more and I
found an article that went into more
detail about it so I kind of want to
talk a little bit about the article and
get your all's opinions how it worked
for you did it help with your ovulation
that kind of stuff I'd love to hear your
all's feedback in the comments below so
this article is from USA Today and it's
titled are you TTC a look at the
fertility diet so basically it talks
about how many nutrition nutritional
experts say to follow the fertility diet
the plan is based on research from a
sinner PSA's Health Study it's one of
the largest and most comprehensive
studies on women's health
which informed 10 steps for improving
fertility through changes in diet weight
and activity
this January US News and World Report
which evaluated 40 of the most popular
diets with health experts ranked the
fertility diet as its 10th best diet
overall so it also gives a few stats
which I always think are really
interesting I don't know about you all
that the average couple only has a 25%
chance of actually getting pregnant each
month and
12% of women between the ages of 15 and
44 have difficulty getting pregnant or
carrying a pregnancy to term and that's
according to the Centers for Disease
Control okay so I want to scroll down
and talk a little bit about this okay so
here are the 10 steps that the fertility
diet suggest you to do and I'm not
saying I have done this myself because I
have not I've just been doing research
on it so the number one thing they say
to do and they say to avoid trans fats
so basically it raises the level of your
LDL or your bad cholesterol and the
second thing to do is says consume more
unsaturated vegetable oils so add more
olive oil and canola oil to your diet
and try to consume healthy fats from
foods like fish and avocados so I have
been doing that a lot lately
um get more protein from vegetables
instead of like a serving a steak
consider a serving of lentils I honestly
don't even know what lends alarm eats
low carbs so choose whole grains oatmeal
and vegetables which are not highly
refined over carbs like white bread and
pasta which can increase ambulatory
infertility which I never knew so that's
crazy that this says that it can mean
irregular ovulation or lack of ovulation
altogether so that's pretty interesting
number 5 says make it whole milk if
you're trying to get pregnant whole fat
dairy is the best choice opt for whole
milk over skim and enjoy a small dish of
ice cream or full fat yogurt each day I
can do me some ice cream that's for sure
number 6 is take a multivitamin
so folic acid and vitamin B are
essential I try to do that I probably
need to get more consistent with it
number 7 don't neglect iron intake get
plenty of iron but not from red meat eat
vegetables high in iron like spinach and
consider taking an iron supplement never
thought about that really drink water is
number eight skip
so to everything else coffee and alcohol
in moderation thank god I could so I'm a
coffee I'm kind of obsessed with coffee
um number nine get to a fertility a zone
wait so after I read this I went and
checked my BMI I'm actually fluctuated
in weight a little bit I'm not the type
of person to hop on the scale and
freaked out about my weight or anything
like that because honestly I've pretty
much stayed the same weight my whole
life until recently and after I got
married I guess just over the past year
I don't know what it is um I think my I
really think it's my activity level
where I do have a desk job and I'm not
like exercising regularly so I've tried
to change that I've gained about five
plus pounds and it's really weird for me
and I know most people be like oh my god
you're so dramatic
but I just wanted to make sure that I
was still in a good BMI zone which is
they say the best to get to a fertility
zone weight being in the fertility zone
means achieving a BMI of 20 to 24 and so
I checked mine and I am good it says
weighing too much or too little can
affect your menstrual cycle and the last
but not least it says be active if you
don't exercise regularly start starting
could help your fertility if you're
already active be careful not to over do
it according to resolve low body fat can
affect ovulation and fertility and right
here it says one in eight couples
experience infertility and that's a fact
that I have learned a lot so I think
this fertility diet thing is very
interesting I've seen a few couples
doing it here on YouTube and especially
when they start their IVF treatments
which I'm not at that phase but I
thought you know obviously you need to
be healthy anyways just for your overall
body and the longevity of your life and
the quality of life that you're gonna
have and so I really want to try to
incorporate more of these things and how
I can see hopefully I'll get pregnant or
I can at least see an improvement in my
ovulation or something like that so have
you all tried this diet if so like what
are some of the things that you like to
eat um any recipe ideas anything like
that leave it down below because if it's
not easy then it's so hard for me to
stick to so yeah just let me know your
thoughts on that I thought it was super
interesting and something that I'm
willing to try um so yeah let me know if
you know of anybody that tried it and it
helped them whatever so let me know um I
would love to hear your thoughts down in
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