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Nutrition and Lifestyle Tips for Couples Trying to Conceive


a healthy diet is important for everyone
but even more so for people who are
trying to have a baby hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com our
host Veronica got the chance to speak
with a nick robinson about the
importance of a clean diet for men and
women who are trying to conceive soleta
some important things to remember when
you’re trying to conceive well when
you’re thinking about getting pregnant
the most important thing is you really
have to detoxify your life you have to
remove all the things that could
potentially harm a baby or potentially
keep you from becoming pregnant so some
of the things to look at are the
products in your home make sure that
you’re removing all of the chemicals
from your home because a lot of the
chemicals that we use to clean things
have neurotoxins in the last thing you
want to be exposed to our neurotoxins
while you’re trying to have a baby the
other thing you want to look at is then
what are you’re putting on your skin
your skin is your largest organ and in
fact we now use nicotine patches and
birth control patches because we know
that the skin is a really good delivery
system so what you want to do is make
sure that your skin care products are
organic and they have no chemicals in
them you want to make sure that your
hair products and your nail products
also have no chemicals in them and you
can ask most hairdressers now to use
dyes for your hair that are naturally
based that don’t have chemicals and what
role does nutrition play in this they’ve
done Studies on bilkul chords from
newborn babies in 2010 and they found
upwards of 200 chemicals toxic chemicals
and the umbilical cords of newborn
babies so it’s really really important
to take a look at your nutrition and
remove all the chemicals that’s in your
diet from the time you’re trying to
conceive now are there foods that will
increase fertility absolutely so you
want to make sure that you’re building
the optimal nest for your baby to grow
in so you want to make sure that you’re
having a lot of omega-3s a lot of fats
the fatter your diet the more your
estrogen levels rise you want to make
sure that you’re having a lot of
vitamins B vitamins are the vitamins
that support neurological function they
support actually the myelin around your
spinal cord and so when you’re trying to
have a baby is really important they
have a lot of your B vitamins are high
in order to make sure that your baby’s
development will be optimal as well you
want to make sure you’re having lots of
calcium which is important to bone
growth and development and you want to
make sure that overall your diet is very
very clean what do you mean by a clean
diet well you want to make sure you take
away the things that would prevent you
from being fertile so we know that
things like stress reduce fertility we
also know that things like caffeine
reduce fertility we also know that there
are foods that you eat that are
inflammatory that suppress the immune
system so whenever you have inflammation
you have disease and when you have
dizzies you have suppressed immune
system a suppressed immune system is
suppressed fertility so you want to take
out soy you want to take out dairy you
want to take out gluten you want to take
out processed foods you want to take out
any artificial sugars as well so does
how healthy you are before you can see
if affect the health of the baby
absolutely healthy mums deliver healthy
babies unhealthy mums have difficult
fertility issues they have difficult
pregnancies and they have difficult
deliveries so you want to make sure that
you are optimally healthy if you can
before you become pregnant now we’ve
been talking about the mother’s health
but is this something that the couple
should do together absolutely so maybe a
lesser-known fact is that women are born
with the all the ovum the eggs they will
ever have so if you’re 20 your ovum our
20 years old if you’re thirty 30 years
old that’s why our infertility increases
with age because the eggs actually get
older too and there are not as the
quality is not as hot but a man produces
sperm on demand which means that you
want to be as healthy as possible to
produce the best sperm possible to
create the best baby possible so a man
should actually follow exactly the same
thing the same diet the same lifestyle
that his wife is following or spouse is
following
is there any advice you want to leave
couples with treat your body as though
you’re already pregnant and that should
really delineate the guidelines with
which you are getting your body ready
start about three months before you’re
thinking of conceiving clean out your
life clean out your diet get rid of
stress and hopefully you will create the
best odds possible to create the best
fertility possible and the healthiest
baby possible thank you very much thank
you for Annika
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