Food and Fertility
Jill Blakeway, LAc, is a practitioner in New York at the The YinOva Center. Her focus is on women’s health and she also has an informative fertility and pregnancy blog. Jill has a book about acupuncture and fertility titled: “Making Babies: a proven three-month program for maximum fertility.” The book will focus on foods, lifestyle changes, and timing conception, and willbe available this summer.
In the meantime, have a look at Fertilityinfo.com for an informative list of foods to eat while trying to conceive. Some of this list includes organic foods whenever possible, and eliminating alcohol and caffeine and trans fats. Check out the list of nutrient rich fertility diet, and watch the video.
p.s. from the YinOva Center Blog – the post that is helping me break up with coffee….
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Thank you for the comment Liz- and for sharing the information. Debra Bett’s site is great! I’m glad there are so many resources out there for both practitioners and patients.
-amy
Nice interview, very informative.This only proves that diet is vital especially in pregnant woman or if she plans to have baby.
Hi: Thanks for this information. I am excited for the book to be released. Lately in my practice I have been pulling some information from the book Fertility Diet, based on this huge research study looking at the relationship between anovulatory fertility and diet.
In my practice, I also use a worksheet that I created of warm food for fertility patients and have broken the foods into food groups. Some of the information from this was pulled from Fertility Wisdom by Angela Wu. One of my patients is Japanese and she mentioned that warm diets are big in Japan for fertility which was great validation for what I have been recommending for years.
I also refer some patients to Debra Bett’ site which is chock full of great handouts including recipes : http://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/
Thank you for the coffee information! Many patients ask about this and I know some acupuncturists are very strict about the coffee thing. This new information definitely has helped me.
Liz Richards, L.Ac.