1 hr 7 min
Preparing Your Body for a Baby with Alexandria DeVito Fringe Fertility Podcast with Kerry Hinds
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- Alternative Health
Trying to decipher your reproductive health when we're trying to conceive can be confusing & often leaves us feeling isolated. Knowing where to start, who to talk to, what tests to run, and how to care for yourself becomes overwhelming pretty quickly.
When it comes to fertility - we often think our first line of inquiry is the OB/GYN office after you’ve been trying to get pregnant for 6 months or 1 year. And then, often it's straight to the fertility clinic.
Yet we are completely skipping a huge piece of the fertility puzzle.
Preconception wellness.
There are so many factors at play when it comes to fertility - fertility is not just ‘waist down’ (as my guest says). There is a need to approach your fertility more holistically and with a wider scope of inquiry and care.
In today’s episode, I had the great pleasure to speak with Alexandria DeVito. She has an eclectic background and is so full of knowledge about preconception health and ways you can prepare yourself for conception, pregnancy, IVF, birthing, and beyond.
Alexandria has a Masters of Science and is a Clinical Nutrition Specialist and functional nutritionist who specializes in fertility and preconception health. She is the author of the book - 9 Months is Not Enough: The Ultimate Pre-pregnancy Checklist to Create a Baby-Ready Body and Build Generational Health.
She is the founder and CEO of Poplin, the first pre-pregnancy wellness company. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also has a master’s degree in nutrition; extensive training as a doula, yoga teacher, and personal trainer; and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, all of which inform her approach to pre-pregnancy wellness.
We use her book in this episode to guide our conversation - so it will really give you a good idea of what is in this great book.
Here is what we cover!
What is preconception wellness?
Did you get a preconception visit?
How our modern society supports infertility not fertility
Merging ancient systems with modern science
Epigenetics
Incorporating change as positive and not deprivation
Ageism in fertility
Reproductive anxiety
Male Infertility
Functional Medicine
Fertility Foods from a functional medicine viewpoint
Exercise and the Goldilocks effect
Testing for preconception health with Poplin
Resources:
Poplin - Preconception testing
9 Months is Not Enough
IG Poplin
Fringe Fertility is brought to you by Kerry Hinds and Fertile Body Yoga – a virtual holistic wellness hub for those going through fertility. She focuses on the mind, body, energy & soul while supporting people in coaching programs, fertility yoga classes, and collaborative workshops.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fringe-fertility/message
Trying to decipher your reproductive health when we're trying to conceive can be confusing & often leaves us feeling isolated. Knowing where to start, who to talk to, what tests to run, and how to care for yourself becomes overwhelming pretty quickly.
When it comes to fertility - we often think our first line of inquiry is the OB/GYN office after you’ve been trying to get pregnant for 6 months or 1 year. And then, often it's straight to the fertility clinic.
Yet we are completely skipping a huge piece of the fertility puzzle.
Preconception wellness.
There are so many factors at play when it comes to fertility - fertility is not just ‘waist down’ (as my guest says). There is a need to approach your fertility more holistically and with a wider scope of inquiry and care.
In today’s episode, I had the great pleasure to speak with Alexandria DeVito. She has an eclectic background and is so full of knowledge about preconception health and ways you can prepare yourself for conception, pregnancy, IVF, birthing, and beyond.
Alexandria has a Masters of Science and is a Clinical Nutrition Specialist and functional nutritionist who specializes in fertility and preconception health. She is the author of the book - 9 Months is Not Enough: The Ultimate Pre-pregnancy Checklist to Create a Baby-Ready Body and Build Generational Health.
She is the founder and CEO of Poplin, the first pre-pregnancy wellness company. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also has a master’s degree in nutrition; extensive training as a doula, yoga teacher, and personal trainer; and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, all of which inform her approach to pre-pregnancy wellness.
We use her book in this episode to guide our conversation - so it will really give you a good idea of what is in this great book.
Here is what we cover!
What is preconception wellness?
Did you get a preconception visit?
How our modern society supports infertility not fertility
Merging ancient systems with modern science
Epigenetics
Incorporating change as positive and not deprivation
Ageism in fertility
Reproductive anxiety
Male Infertility
Functional Medicine
Fertility Foods from a functional medicine viewpoint
Exercise and the Goldilocks effect
Testing for preconception health with Poplin
Resources:
Poplin - Preconception testing
9 Months is Not Enough
IG Poplin
Fringe Fertility is brought to you by Kerry Hinds and Fertile Body Yoga – a virtual holistic wellness hub for those going through fertility. She focuses on the mind, body, energy & soul while supporting people in coaching programs, fertility yoga classes, and collaborative workshops.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fringe-fertility/message
1 hr 7 min