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FERTILITY IN WOMEN

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             FERTILITY IN WOMEN This is a sensitive topic in the health and wellness space. Nowadays there is a huge burden of infertility all over the world. There is an increase in the rates of IVF about 5-10% every year. Fertility is declining year after year yet it’s not given the attention it deserves. In my practice as a Nutritionist, I get to handle a lot of women with issues like difficulty getting pregnant, lack of ovulation or hormonal imbalances that can be a threat to fertility. Why there are increasing rates of infertility -           Lack of preconception education -           Processed vegetable and seed oils everywhere -           Endocrine disrupters in everything like shady make-up products, fragrances -           Food industry and the way they over process foods and make convenience foods -           Long term hormonal contraceptives -           Hustle culture and always on the     go -           Overuse of medications and antibiotics How we

Demystifying Metabolism

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  Demystifying Metabolism and its r elation to hormones Y ou have probably heard about Pro-metabolic eating. This is the kind of eating that restores balance to your blood sugar levels, liver health, sex hormones, reproductive system and generally the biochemistry of your body as a whole. Metabolism simply means the rate at which our cells efficiently convert calories and oxygen into energy or fuel to our bodies. Our metabolism is a direct reflection of how our cells take in elements of nature (food, light, minerals, etc.) and can turn that into energy. Could you possibly imagine that slow metabolism could be the root cause to your imbalanced hormones? Metabolism affects the output of all cells in our bodies and since hormones are made by cells to act as cellular messengers, therefore metabolism affects our hormonal output i.e. how we receive and respond to hormones. Metabolism affects our detoxification pathways, digestion, thyroid function, inflammation, reproduction and immu