Six Steps to Enhance Your Fertility If you are embarking on a fertility journey, whether it be trying naturally or undergoing assisted conception, it goes without saying that you would want to enhance your fertility and create for yourself the best chances of success. This involves taking a whole body view – lifestyle, stress and …
Folic Acid or Folate? The terms folic acid and folate are often used interchangeably, both representing Vitamin B9. Folate is actually the natural form of this vitamin and folic acid is a synthetic form. Why is Folate/Folic acid Important? If you’re trying to get pregnant, you’ll more than likely be taking a prenatal multivitamin and …
I probably make soups several times a week, if not more. I especially check the fridge at the end of the week and try to use everything up – just today I made a soup using celery, onions, carrots, tomatoes, stock cube with some chick peas to thicken and add protein. As long there is …
An Acupuncturist’s Perspective of TCM Nutrition Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has for centuries placed an enormous emphasis on diet and lifestyle as contributors to our health and wellbeing. At acupuncture college we are taught to consider a person’s diet and lifestyle first and foremost as contributors to a patient’s symptoms, since these two factors can …
Can Diet Improve The Health of Your Sperm Cells? Sperm cells are often the forgotten half of the fertility equation! They are manufactured all the time and so are perhaps more influenced by lifestyle and nutrition than egg cells. The environment in which they develop is very important as they can be damaged by free …
Can Diet Improve The Health of Your Egg Cells? Whilst it is true that you are born with all the eggs you ever have, it is possible to improve the environment in which they develop and mature by following an “egg-friendly” nutrition plan to develop healthy egg cells. Age is, of course, the biggest factor …
Worrying Times! Is it possible to boost the immune system naturally? At the moment of writing, immunity is obviously a very topical issue. Everywhere we turn there is some more news about the coronavirus outbreak. We should take seriously all the advice about good hand hygiene, reducing social contact and making sure we take care …
In this post I’ll discuss the concept of acid and alkaline forming foods, the effect they can have on the body and how this information can be used to create a “menopause diet.” What are acid and alkaline forming foods? Don’t worry, this isn’t about to become a chemistry lesson (well, maybe a short one!) …
This post will question whether there is such a thing as a fertility diet and examines how acupuncture, fertility and nutrition are intertwined elements and best results are achieved when they are considered as a whole. Acupuncture, Fertility & Nutrition Go Hand in Hand Nutrition for fertility is about replenishing and restoring nutritional balance. It …