Down to Birth #287 | Lily Nichols on Fertility, Folate and Food
If there is one best place to begin when it comes to optimizing our fertility, it is with food, and who better to bring us the lowdown on what we do and don't need for fertility optimization than Lily Nichols, RDN, the modern-day-author and guru of all things related to food and pregnancy. In today's episode, she delivers crucial information about how our modern food practices, particularly the standard American diet, set us up for sub-optimal fertility and contribute to the most common complications of pregnancy including pre-eclampsia, pre-term labor, PPROM, and more. She opens our eyes to the significant problems with folic acid in our food sources, prenatal vitamins, and birth control, and we get into the nitty-gritty on the difference between folic acid and folate. Additionally, she explains which macro- and micronutrients we need to best support the female body for conception. If optimizing fertility is on your mind, this is a must-listen, must-share episode!
Lily Nichols on Folate: Why it’s Superior to Folic Acid for Pregnancy (even if you don’t have MTHFR)
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And check out our episodes with Lily Nichols:
#203 | Pre-eclampsia: Diet, Nutrition and the Influence of Sperm with Lily Nichols
#155 | Gestational Diabetes Prevention and Management with Author Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE
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