Okay, welcome back in this video I'm gonna talk about you know, I'm working with some older for fertility clients
It's like 38 plus who are trying to get pregnant and sometimes after you
know several years of trying going through IVF
I UI XE they come to me and they're kind of like
I don't know really what you could even do for me. I've done all the tests. I've gone through all the procedures
I've seen fertility specialists
excuse me, but um
you know and I say well I I don't really know either let's talk about some things and
What I do is what I want to first say is
There's a lot of women out there who feel like
they've gone through all these things and I know that you can relate to this and
and they fill it all hopeless at this point and then they go on then they get pregnant naturally and that's what I'm
Saying for you, I mean, this is your year. You're arming yourself with you information
and this is um a term that I really love you're
you're giving yourself fully resourced and
prepared meaning that you are, you know changing you're making the changes to your diet and your lifestyle and you're like
morphing yourself into this
Fertility mode like as if you're already a mother, you know, you're caring for these wonderful eggs
and your partner is caring for his his sperm and
you know, you're you're changing your your outlook and maybe
You know getting rid of
Some friends or things like that that you know are bringing you down or stressing you out
I mean you're making all these changes, right? And so this is a different year. This this is a different approach
you're taking a holistic approach and
You're you know, you're you're taking care of your physical body you're taking care of your spiritual body your mental body
This is your year that you are, you know, totally taking charge of your fertility
And so that's what I'm seeing with these women
in kind of like
bleak hopeless and then we are you know, like
really taking care of their whole body and I start with the digestion because you know,
We've talked about it more and more that digestion is the where the immune system
originates two arms of the immune system are found in the gut and even the
Emotional state of the person they found that serotonin
hormone
is you know produced in the gut and
Pretty much like our whole health originates there and the
Bacteria, that's found in our gut is also colonized in our vagina
So really we do what's called a gut repair series
And so this is totally radically different than what these women are expecting
They're so used to you know, getting these tests don't know this is your AMH. This is your FSH Bob
I mean those tests are important in some regards
of course like
FSH is really important as far as knowing
The quality of the eggs a MH is more important for for IVF clinics, but they're like wait
my doctor never told me about my gut health and I never talked about my diet and things I'm possibly allergic to and
eliminating those and maybe doing a food allergy test, but
Those are really really important because like I said in another video
reproductive health has so much to do with the health of the entire body and not just the narrow focus of the sex hormones and
The sex organs though, of course, those are important but a lot of times, you know, it'll be confusing
Well, you know everything seems fine, but I can't get pregnant. I can't sustain a pregnancy
That's when you need to start looking at other systems
And this is something that I think is really
frustrating is there's the functional medicine model that looks at optimal reference ranges that are quite different than the conventional medicine model and
Let me give you the example of the thyroid
So a lot of times women will come in and they'll say oh I've had my thyroid tested, okay
Well, have you had your thyroid tested recently? Like in the last few months? No, it's been a while or yes
Okay, let me look at those ranges. Well, usually it's one more this tested TSH and
Conventional reference ranges say if it's between 0.5 and 4.5. You're fine
Where
Functional medicine that looks at, you know
That reference rate that that TSH needs to actually be to be between 1 & 2 to be optimized for fertility
That's quite a big difference. And so
You know
That really makes a difference like do we need to put you on a thyroid hormone?
Or do we need to deal with your iodine deficiency?
Or do we need to deal with food allergies that are creating a thyroid imbalance, or do we do need to look?
At maybe heavy metals that are affecting your thyroid. Oh, my doctor never talked about any of that and said I was fine
Do you have you ever had your thyroid antibodies tested? No, I don't even know what that is. My thyroid was fine
Well 1 your thyroid wasn't fine. It's elevated for fertility and second thyroid antibodies
Precede thyroid disease so actually it's really really important to always test for that and there's several other markers
So I'm going to put the markers and what are the optimal levels? It makes a huge difference?
It's largely ignored and I interview. Dr. Richard ciamis
Who wrote the book feeling fat fuzzy and frazzled? And I said, why are women so largely ignore because women are you know?
Predominantly have these thyroid conditions, why are women so largely ignore with thyroid conditions? You know, why don't enter chronologist. I
Focus more on this. Well, they're so inundated with the with the diabetes epidemic here in America
I mean, it is an epidemic and they say, you know
diabetes can
kill you
Sigh Roy disease in and of itself can't kill you though quote unquote
You you know, I fire it out of balance and you you'll you will wish you were dead
I'm like, yeah
I've I mean I've dealt with so many thyroid conditions where it
ruins the quality of a woman's life and it makes it impossible to
Conceive so in a sense. It's extremely detrimental
So, you know, please work with and who actually has a regard or just become resourced with knowledge
They're stopped the thyroid mouth madness. There's feeling fat fuzzy and frazzled. There's Amy Myers books
I'll put them all in there below
Become educated and then you might have to educate your doctor and some doctors don't like that
But you'll find someone who wants to work with you and I'll tell you about our fertility coaching program as well because we definitely respect
the client and
Work with you on that level
Second is vitamin D. You know, I just have my vitamin D tested the conventional reference ranges are 32 to
102 mph earth fertility is I think optimal for good health is 50 to 80
So, you know though my doctor was kind of like yeah, you're low. You're like on the border, okay
Well, I know better I need two Optima. I want to be in optimal health all my fertility clients. I want them to be
optimized and fully resourced to
Conceive and maintain a pregnancy have a healthy pregnancy healthy baby. So you want to have it at optimal levels and
You know, so sometimes you take high dose high IU vitamin D first get tested of course and see where you're at
If you're low, then you might have to dose higher
5,000 10,000 IU for a period of time and get your get yourself optimized and then
Second, you know on
Thyroid
there's so many different symptoms that come with thyroid depression hair loss difficulty losing weight if achill t maintaining temperature
Difficulty getting pregnant, you know, I'll list a lot of the symptoms below but cold hands and feet in Chinese medicine
You must keep the uterus warm and an indication that you're having like
internal Qi deficiency
in the organs and the digestive system is cold hands and feet because the vital energy of the internal body is
Deficient and it cannot go out to the external body
So, you know
It's really really important to keep the uterus warm and I'll tell you a couple tips. If you're if you're having cold hands and feet
You might be summer and you might not be having it
But you know in the winter months if you're like one of those people it just always has cold hands and feet
It's crucial to keep them warm
So whatever you need to do
wearing gloves don't expose extra socks lots of cinnamon tea a lot of ginger tea a
lot of
warm baths
Staying away from cold foods, you know in the winter months, you know, you're thinking more stews in the summer
You can eat room-temperature salads, but here in America
We just are addicted to super cold things, you know
if you're not eating like I mean drinking a big Slurpee because you're like well, that's
Disgusting and that's full of whatever but you're drinking like big smoothie things or drinks full of ice iced teas
big big
You know Jamba Juice Juice smoothies things like that
I would stay away from that and really stay with the room temperature
You need to keep the internal temperature the internal fire warm
It's really crucial for fertility and Chris Wilford for digestive health as well
I know that's hard for some of you like, you know
We're we're really addicted to ice and I know traveling to other countries like where's my icy cold?
Drink, you know most countries. Don't do the big ice thing and we do here so I would stay away from that and then
Talking about just real quickly
resourced again
Resourced on nutrients like iodine deficiency is a big issue. So getting yourself
You know
kelp
Kelp drops to start optimizing your iodine levels
I'll do a list. That's not the only thing that has iodine. I'll list some foods below that have iodine
Optimizing your vitamin D
working on thyroid health taking a really good prenatal and then optimizing your essential fatty acids your
Omega-3 DHA
epa, those are crucial your body cannot produce those on your own and
They are
Important for fertility and then we leave you with a story a man was saying that his wife
He wrote a blog saying like his wife every time and I hear these stories - they're heartbreaking
I've had eight miscarriages. I just I just met with an woman the other day she had eight
miscarriages
okay, so
Miscarriage miscarriage miscarriage, you know and I'm not saying like oh, this is the reason for every miscarriage
There's multiple reasons for miscarriages
But in her case
Her vitamin D was not optimized and once they optimized it she got pregnant. She was able to maintain the pregnancy
another was
You know low iodine levels once they started optimizing iodine were able to another was
MTHFR once they were able to get tested for Mt. HF are found out that
That they had this mutation were able to change lifestyle
To adapt to this diagnosis we're able to get pregnant and maintain a pregnancy. So
This is your year, this is your year
You're gonna be fully resourced and we'll work on it more and more also
Really the the mental the spiritual I think is so important
So we'll talk about that as well and then put down below. I want to do like a special kind of giveaway
And so tell me something you'd be interested in like that could give away like an Ava bracelet off you sense detector
you know a
private
Testing for thyroid vitamin D thyroid antibodies test. I don't know sir
Or I don't know give me some suggestions