Today’s podcast is a really special one because we’re diving into the topic of healthy fertility, pregnancy, and birth with Lauren Keller. Lauren is a nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, and complex chronic illness specialist who has delivered more babies than she can count. But the work she does today is deeply shaped by her own personal healing journey.In her mid-twenties, Lauren went from being a healthy, active medical provider to suddenly becoming severely ill. Over the next several years she received a long list of diagnoses including multiple sclerosis, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, POTS, heavy metal toxicity, endometriosis, nervous system dysregulation, and infertility. She saw more than twenty doctors across both traditional and functional medicine, tried aggressive treatment protocols, and yet continued to get sicker. For nearly two decades she also struggled with unexplained infertility, despite being a women’s health provider and midwife herself. Eventually Lauren discovered that a hidden dental cavitation infection was creating chronic immune stress in her body. After having cavitation surgery, something remarkable happened. Her fertility returned after almost twenty years of infertility, and she was finally able to conceive.That experience completely changed the way she understood health.Instead of chasing diagnoses or symptom-based protocols, Lauren began focusing on how to restore the body’s terrain and its innate capacity to heal. Through years of study and personal experimentation, she found that the true foundations of healing often lie in mineral balance, nervous system regulation, mitochondrial health, detoxification, quantum biology, and supporting the body as an integrated system rather than isolated symptoms. Today Lauren combines her background in midwifery, functional medicine, mineral balancing, peptides, and mind-body medicine to guide women through preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum in a way that honors the body’s intelligence.In this conversation we talk about:• Why fertility is really a reflection of whole-body health• The foundational things that matter before conception• What many women are missing when it comes to preparing for pregnancy• How mineral balance, circadian biology, and nervous system health influence fertility• And what it actually looks like to support a healthy pregnancy and birth in today’s worldIf you’re someone thinking about getting pregnant, currently pregnant, or simply wanting to understand how to support your body’s reproductive health at a deeper level, this conversation will give you a completely different lens on fertility and birth.https://www.twopurplecarrots.com/https://www.instagram.com/twopurplecarrots/https://www.instagram.com/the.fem.design/
