Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with fertility Nutritionist, Functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week on the podcast I'm joined by Nutritional therapist Julia Young. Julia went through years of fertility struggles, which she overcame with the help of nutrition and lifestyle changes. Her experience led her to study to become a nutritional therapist and specialise in the field of fertility. We talk about Julia's experience, and she shares the details and top tips about what she wishes she had known at the very start of her journey. Find Julia here: www.juliayoungnutrition.com www.instagram.com/juliayoungnutrition Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk www.instagram.com/sandragreenbank_fertility Fertility Foundations course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations  

Fertility Foundations

What I would like to tell my younger self about infertility with Julia Young

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with functional medicine practitioner, nutritional therapist and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week I'm joined by consultant embryologist Alpesh Doshi from IVF London. Alpesh is one of the UK's top experts in embryology and PGS testing. On this episode we dig deep into embryology, egg health and what we can do to improve our chances of pregnancy success by natural means, as well as the technology available.  IVF London website: www.ivflondon.co.uk Sandra's contact details: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Fertility Foundations online course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations Temporary discount code for £100 off online course: LOCKDOWN

Expert interview - embryology and egg health with Alpesh Doshi from IVF London

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, Functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week on the podcast I'm joined by functional medicine practitioner and coach Sarah Clark. She is the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge your Fertility Naturally. Her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby. On Sarah's Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast she shared the with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions we can eventually reverse infertility. On this episode we dig deep into why and how the functional medicine approach is so different to the conventional approach to infertility, and also how to understand whether this approach is the right one for you. Sarah can be found via:  Get Pregnant Naturally podcast https://getpregnant.libsyn.com/website 3 day fertility diet challenge http://fertilitydietfreebie.com Sandra's contact details: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Fertility Foundations online course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations Temporary discount code for £100 off: LOCKDOWN

The Functional Medicine approach to infertility with Sarah Clark

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, Functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank.  This week on the podcast I'm joined by author,  Fertility Awareness educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health.   In her new book The Fifth Vital Sign, Lisa debunks the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to fertility awareness and menstrual cycle optimization. She hosts the Fertility Friday Podcast, a weekly radio show devoted to helping women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between menstrual cycle health, fertility, and overall health. Lisa can be found via: www.fertilityfriday.com Facebook: Facebook.com/FertilityFridays Instagram: @FertilityFriday Twitter: @FertileFriday Pinterest: FertilityFriday Sandra's contact details: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Fertility Foundations online course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations Temporary discount code for £100 off: LOCKDOWN  

Your Menstrual Cycle, The Fifth Vital Sign with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week I talk to Nicola Moore about the links between our immune system, and fertility. We also cover some simple strategies that you can put in place straight away, at home, to improve both your fertility and immune resilience. Specialising in the gut, immunity and hormones, Nicola Moore is considered one of the UK’s leading nutritional therapists. Having worked in the sector of nutrition and lifestyle medicine as a forward-thinking practitioner since 2004, Nicola held a senior academic role at the world-renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition for over 12 years and overall Head of Clinics at the Institute for 4 years. Nicola’s evidence-based, pragmatic approach has won her praise from both the nutrition industry and public sector alike and her ethos focusses on enabling food tolerance, not restriction. Find Nicola here: Instagram: @nicolamoorenutrition www.nicola-moore.com Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Instagram: @sandragreenbank_fertility Fertility Foundations online fertility course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations Temporary discount code for £100 off: LOCKDOWN

The links between immunity and fertility with Nicola Moore

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week on the podcast, I chat with Victoria Smith about the importance of IVF preparation. Victoria is a nutritionist specialising in fertility nutrition, in particular for the purpose of making every IVF cycle count. She draws on her own experience as an IVF mum of two girls, and having noticed the vast difference before and after preparing for each round, using natural dietary and lifestyle strategies, she has made it her mission to help others optimise their fertility for healthy conception. Find Victoria here: Instagram: @victoriasmith_fertility www.victoriasmithnutrition.co.uk victoria@victoriasmithnutrition.co.uk  Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Instagram: @sandragreenbank_fertility Fertility Foundations Online Fertility Course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations Temporary discount code for £100 off: LOCKDOWN

Making Every Cycle Count - IVF Preparation with Nutritionist Victoria Smith

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank.   This week on the podcast, I chat with five elements acupuncturist Claire DaBreo about acupuncture for fertility. We talk about the different types of acupuncture and how to know whether acupuncture may be useful for you, or not.  Claire's website: https://www.thelondonacupuncturist.co.uk Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk

Acupuncture for Fertility with Claire DaBreo

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week on the podcast, I chat with Lucinda Miller from Naturedoc about what we can do before, and during pregnancy to ensure that our children are born as healthy as possible. Lucinda's website: www.naturedoc.co.uk Sandra's website:  www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Sandra's Fertility Foundations online course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations

Pre-conception and Pregnancy Nutrition for Optimised Children's Health with Lucinda Miller from Naturedoc

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week on the podcast, I talk to Dietitian and Functional medicine practitioner Lara Rickard who specialises in PCOS. Lara's personal struggles with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome from a young age has inspired her to study this area in-depth and choose to specialise in this subject. Join us, as we discuss natural, evidenced-based strategies to healing PCOS and how this relates to Fertility. Lara's website: www.marulawellness.com Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Sandra's Fertility Foundations Online course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations

Natural Approaches to PCOS for Fertility with Lara Rickard from Marula Wellness

This week I talk to the wonderful Tanya Borowski about the importance of thyroid health for fertility, and why this is so often misunderstood by clinicians. 

Thyroid Health for Fertility with Tanya Borowski

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, coach and functional medicine practitioner Sandra Greenbank. This week I talk to Alice Rose, IVF mum, podcast host, consultant, speaker and campaigner. Alice works tirelessly to raise awareness of infertility and IVF as well as supporting others going through infertility. She's doing some fantastic work and I'm so excited that she has agreed to come on my podcast to talk about strategies to cope with Christmas with infertility.

Coping with infertility at Christmas with Alice Rose

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner Sandra Greenbank. This week I talk to Lily Nichols, registered dietitian/ nutritionist, diabetes educator, and researcher. She is the author of two books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Lily's work is so exciting, because she picks apart current dietary guidelines in fertility and pregnancy nutrition, and looks at what the most recent science tells us about what we should really be eating for a healthy conception and pregnancy. Lily's website: https://lilynicholsrdn.com/ Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Sandra's Online Fertility Foundations course: bit.ly/fertilityfoundationa

Real food for fertility and pregnancy with Lily Nichols RDN

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner Sandra Greenbank. This week I talk to Dr Carrie Jones about advanced functional hormone testing for fertility, using the DUTCH test. Dr. Carrie Jones is an internationally recognized speaker, consultant, and educator on the topic of women’s health and hormones. She graduated from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM), School of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon where she also completed her 2-year residency in women’s health, hormones and endocrinology.  Later she graduated from Grand Canyon University’s Master of Public Health program with a goal of doing more international education. She was adjunct faculty for many years at NUNM teaching gynecology and advanced endocrinology/fertility and has been the Medical Director for 2 large integrative clinics in Portland. She is the Medical Director for Precision Analytical, Inc, creators of the DUTCH hormone test. www.dutchtest.com If you have a diagnosis of infertility or sub-fertility, functional medicine may help you start to unravel the underlying causes which can often be addressed with dietary and lifestyle changes. 

Hormone testing for fertility with Dr Carrie Jones

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner Sandra Greenbank. This week I speak to my client Olivia about her experiences with recurring miscarriages, and working with me via my online fertility course to ultimately have a successful pregnancy. We also talk about the months of anxiety that follows a positive pregnancy test when you have suffered previous losses. Olivia posts on Instagram under the handle @reachingforourrainbow where she shares her story with the aim to give others who are struggling with recurrent miscarriages hope.

Recurrent miscarriages - Olivia's story

The Fertility Foundations podcast: getting to the root cause of infertility.  Sandra Greenbank is a BANT registered nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner, and coach specialising in fertility and pregnancy. Infertility is on the rise and IVF industry is booming, however there is very little help out there for couples who are facing fertility issues. This is why Sandra created the Fertility Foundations podcast; the podcast for those who are experiencing problems with fertility, and want to understand more about how they can take charge of their own path to parenthood. This podcast is here to inform, empower and inspire you with the tools and actions you can use to put down the necessary foundations, in order to help improve your chances of having a healthy baby, whether you are trying naturally or preparing for IVF. 

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