welcome i'm dr janine bowring naturopathic doctor and today i'm sharing with you the nine best foods
to eat when trying to get pregnant so i've had a lot of questions about fertility issues and this
is focusing on the women in particular but this is great for the guys as well stay tuned right to
the end of this video where i'm going to share my absolute favorite which is the ninth food to help
with fertility and to get pregnant so food number one is a variety of organic fruits and vegetables
and ideally your fruits and vegetables are locally grown wherever you live because this differs
depending on what latitude you're at whether you're closer to the equator or further away
like i am here in canada that food recommendation change is based on what our body can absorb and
utilize and turn into energy so eating local and in season is the best way to ensure that you are
getting all those nutrients that you need for that season because our body is very much attached to
and reacts to the way that nature around us is also reacting based on that season and time of
year food number two is coconut oil and i love coconut oil because it's very reparative to the
gut especially for leaky gut syndrome so make sure you check out my episode on leaky gut syndrome
if this is something that you think may be a problem for you and that connection with fertility
when we don't have a healthy gut unfortunately we're not getting all that nutrient density from
our foods we can't effectively turn it into energy and we could have developed some inflammation in
the body which we know again will threaten that good fertility so getting that inflammation down
is important and coconut oil is a great way to be able to do that and getting those essential fats
from the coconut oil food number three is brazil nuts and i love brazil nuts because
they contain selenium and selenium is that essential mineral that we need to run our thyroid
gland and the thyroid being a major regulator for our metabolism and really important in terms
of the way that our hormones work and our body temperature we also know that body temperature
is very much linked to fertility for anybody who's gone through fertility treatments before
and checking when you are more fertile with body temperature really important food number four is
almonds and i love almonds they are a natural source of vitamin e and again getting vitamin
e from whole foods sources is always the best way to do it you don't want to get synthetic vitamin e
in a supplement or a vitamin the reason being is that it can actually become like a pro oxidant in
the body so more like a free radical when it's supposed to be an antioxidant so doing you have
to be really careful with antioxidants especially vitamin e and what vitamin e does naturally from
food is it helps to create that healthy placenta so this is important to be able to sustain
a healthy pregnancy as well food number five all my top foods for fertility for women is dried
seaweed and dried seaweed contains iodine naturally from the sea and this again is
really important for our thyroid function so incorporating a bit of that tasty dried seaweed
into the diet is really important for fertility especially for women food number six is oysters
now oysters are known as a superfood from the ocean and not only does it contain that
iodine as well but also natural sodium which is important to run all of our cells appropriately
but also zinc and zinc we know for men is really important but also for women and for women's
fertility that's why incorporating oysters into your diet preferably raw if you can do it is a
great way to be able to ensure that you're getting all of those superfood nutrients especially those
minerals from the ocean in your daily diet food number seven that i love is olive oil
so again we want to limit our polyunsaturated fatty acids so the more inflammatory fats
and we want to incorporate the healthier fats into our diet so olive oil is fantastic
i especially love corona chi olives which are highest in the antioxidants so this is really
important that something that you can look for and a great way to incorporate more of those
essential fats into the diet of course limiting carbohydrates is important i have other videos
all about carbohydrates and how they can sort of offset your leptin and your hormones and
overdoing it with too many carbohydrates is not advisable but getting more of these essential fats
into the diet is very anti-inflammatory preferably an organic olive oil would be the best food number
eight is sauerkraut so sauerkraut and yogurt so fermented foods help our healthy microbiome and
having that proper diversity of those gut bugs is really really important to ensure that we have
proper digestion but also our immune system is very much reliant on having that healthy
microbiome and that diversity of those good bugs in there so getting that healthy microbiome
is essential for fertility and do everything that you can to have that proper digestion and my
favorite food food number nine on the list is cold water fish but the caveat here is that it has to
be small fish and you have to be careful a little bit with having too much of it the reason being is
that because of the toxicity of fish and sometimes going to a dha supplement so i love the dha
because dha is something that our body as humans does not produce it needs to be supplied from the
outside and the cold water fish again if they're non-toxic so we're talking mercury pcbs dioxins
it's important to incorporate a little bit of these into the diet but when we're worried about
toxicity and maybe we've got other toxicity issues in our body in terms of heavy metal
toxicity then you want to limit the consumption of fish and going to a dha supplement may be the
best way to get in that important omega-3 which is important for our brain and spinal cord but more
importantly when we do conceive and we have that little baby growing inside to ensure that they
have proper brain development and nervous system development and it's all dependent on that dha
dha is also really important to be able to convert that sunlight energy
into that electrical current in our cells and this is for all of us a super important aspect of our
overall health and ensuring that our electricity that's going through us we are a battery that that
is supported by having enough of that dha in the diet every single day so i hope that you learned
something new please give me a big thumbs up on this video be sure to share this video as well
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