by Jessica Drummond | May 2, 2017 | Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Fertility, Functional Nutrition, Gut Health, Health Coaching, Hormone Balance, Preconception
While there is no one-size-fits-all IVF Diet, focusing on your nutrition can certainly improve your IVF success. Let’s discuss a few important strategies for supporting your health to improve your chances of having a healthy pregnancy with IVF. The IVF Diet is a...
by Jessica Drummond | Apr 17, 2017 | Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Fertility, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Health Coaching, Preconception, Reproductive Resources, Stress, Toxicity
For the woman over 35 who has been told she has “old eggs,” can egg quality be improved for IVF or natural conception? In my practice, women over 40 (or even younger!) who are struggling to conceive are often told by their physicians that they have “old...
by Jessica Drummond | Nov 15, 2015 | Birth Control, Breastfeeding, Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Fertility, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Hormone Balance, Postnatal Recovery, Preconception, Pregnancy, Recipes
If you want healthy children, support the health of their parents. In my practice, supporting mom and dad’s health begins even before conception. As a clinical nutritionist, I work with women every week who struggle with fertility or who simply want to be as...
by Jessica Drummond | Nov 13, 2015 | Adrenal Health, Celiac Disease, Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Fertility, Gluten Free, Health Coaching, Preconception
What is the impact of gluten sensitivity and celiac disease on unexplained infertility? A recent study prospectively examined the role of undiagnosed celiac disease in couples with unexplained infertility (Karaca et al., 2015). Several important pieces of information...
by Jessica Drummond | Apr 24, 2015 | Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Fertility, For Patients, Stress
Fertility health is often indicative of general health. But, when women struggle with infertility for no apparent medical reason it can be extremely frustrating. It turns out that supporting the health of the planet is as essential as getting enough sleep and eating...
by Jessica Drummond | Mar 29, 2015 | Back Pain, Birth Control, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Fertility, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Hormone Balance, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Stress, Vulvodynia
What does it mean when your pelvis hurts? Pelvic pain is pain in the muscles, joints, nerves, or organs of the pelvis. It can be vague pain that is difficult to isolate to any particular organ, muscle, nerve or joint, or it can be related to a number of more specific...
