Category: Fertility
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Prenatal Vitamins: Which One & Why?
First and foremost, a healthy diet is the first step in ensuring you and your baby have exactly what you need to thrive. However, a high quality prenatal vitamin is a great way to address any gaps you may have. Nutritional gaps occur for many reasons, some of which I’ve…
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Seed Cycling: Why & How
Seed cycling is a natural way for women to support hormonal imbalances and can easily be incorporated into most daily routines. Hormonal imbalances can occur for a number of reasons such as: diet, exposure to toxins, pollutants, chemicals, and stress. Even slight hormonal imbalances can contribute to issues such as…
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Omega 3 Fats + Fertility
I’m sure you’ve heard at least once that “fat” is bad and should be avoided. I’m here to assure you that this could not be further from the truth. In fact, fat is essential to your health and plays a protective role against many preventable illnesses and diseases. What is…
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Basal Body Temperature (BBT)
Basal body temperature (BBT) is the “lowest natural, non-pathologic body temperature recorded after a period of rest” (Steward & Raja, 2023). The purpose of BBT charting is to track a woman’s unique temperature patterns over the course of multiple menstrual cycles. This information is often used in conjunction with other…
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Supporting Ovulation
Ovulation is a complicated process that HAS to happen in order for a woman to become pregnant. Issues with ovulation or anovulation (the absence of ovulation) is the number one cause of female infertility. Luckily, there are many ways that we can support the process of ovulation outside of Western…
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The Impact of Stress on Fertility
You may be asking yourself “what does stress have to do with fertility”? The short answer is that stress depletes nutrients that are necessary to manufacture hormones such as estrogen and progesterone which are crucial to one’s ability to become and sustain a pregnancy. Estrogen and progesterone regulate the female…
Sarah Sajnovic Nutrition 