How To Improve Your Fertility? Fertility Doctor Gives Advice To Her Younger Self

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**Learn more about my new fertility course to enhance your natural fertility and optimize your lifestyle**

Board certified OBGYN and fertility doctor Natalie Crawford, MD talks about advice she would give her younger self as a fertility doctor. Think about how to improve your lifestyle and help your fertility.

Covered in this episode:
1. Your period is a vital sign. Pay attention if your period is not regular, if it is heavy or you bleed through your cloths, or you have severe pain. You should not be afraid to talk about your period or your menstrual cycle.
2. Toxins matter - avoid plastics and never heat plastics, remove toxins from your life and limit plastic exposures. Limit exposure to teflon and other Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals or EDCs.
3. Listen to your body and sensitivities to food. Food can cause inflammation and this can result in digestive issues, fatigue, blasting, and more - inflammation can cause difficulties with your fertility. Avoid processed foods and fake ingredients. Real foods are the best.
4. Alcohol is not good for your reproductive hormones or body. Studies show that more than 4 drinks per week is bad for your fertility.
5. Second tobacco smoke exposure and marijuana both decrease your egg count and quality.
6. Prevent sexually transmitted infections. Chlamydia is a top cause of tubal disease and infertility.
7. Sleep is really essential for your body. It helps give you a time to heal, it decreases inflammation and it decreases toxic free radicals in your body. Sleep disturbance increases your cortisol and stress levels and this changes hormone secretion from the brain.
8. Make a fertility game plan. When do you want kids? When should you start trying? Should you freeze your eggs? Should you get your fertility tested?
9. Stress is important and you should set boundaries and you do not need to do everything. Say no to things you don’t need to do. Focus your attention on what matters. Stress can impact fertility.
10. Exercise for strength and for your health and not to lose weight. Don’t starve yourself and do only cardio. Focus on weights and yoga and take care of yourself

This is not medical advice but medical education.
Please ask your doctor your medical questions.

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Fertility doctor, Natalie Crawford, MD is a double board certified OBGYN and REI, and co-founder of Fora Fertility, a boutique fertility practice in Austin, Texas.

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dear Natalie, hello from Australia. I am currently trying to get pregnant and your videos are so helpful and amazing to watch. I am 37 now have already one two years old boy and would love one or possibly two more kids. I know I am healthy and fertile but due to my age and past experience I will seek an advice from MD in april or i’ll be pregnant by then. thank you again. And wishing all ladies who are TTC to hold their positive pregnancy test one day soon ❤ love Sara

radkasarastrnadlova
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Never knew second hand smoke could affect fertility! I’m 27 and super low AMH for my age. I wonder now the things my parents did how did it affect my fertility and hormone systems.

mimi.fern.
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Hopefully you can answer this question, in either your podcast or on this channel. If having a perfect diet, not eating out of plastics and all these other tiny details are so important why is it that severely malnourished people across the world, drug addicts, people with disease ect, all manage to keep getting pregnant? Perhaps there is so much more to fertility than this?

I fear that, to those who are having fertility issues, this kind of information, such as never eating from plastic or not using a teflon pan could possibly just cause intense stress or OCD around these things, instead of vastly helping. It seems to be suggesting that fertility is only available to the privileged.

jessicac
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I’m sorry you’ve had to go through infertility and pregnancy loss. I really appreciate your content, just subscribed.

Lenamullins-lq
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Thank a lot Dr.
Your tips are very on point.

NimaDawg
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She’s so cute blue really makes something pop maybe the eyes or the hair. Anyway, I’m here to self educating after fet loss . Devastated and dying inside.

diamondtv
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Ma'am please explain anovulatory cycles.

anangshagoswami
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I know this video was meant to educate, and I’m grateful for it… the truth hurts BUT things like plastic, teflon, and just everyday items I can’t possibly change all of them…. Every time I dive too deep into this health stuff all it does is end up stressing me out because it’s impossible to live that clean.

Lolee
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Even BPA free plastics? My kids’ water bottles have stainless steel cups but BPA free plastic lids/silicone straws. Should I toss them?

carolines
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Hello mam I m patient of azoospermia any tablet or medicine 😢😢??

muhammadhadi
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Can working long hours, 6 days week affect your fertility?

jamgyal
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Can you do a video on ulcerative colitis and periods?

sail
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Funny thing, the foods my body reacts to is some vegetables, soy (products as well as whole beans), whole grains, lentils and beans, fruit… all the things we should consume. And I do consume them, I never eat fast food or sugars, I try to keep my body as healthy as possible. But it makes me wonder if all these foods are making my body inflamed instead 🤔.

christineo
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What about silicone in the kitchen? :)

helenmccormick
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Is BPA free plastic (and tupperware bottles ect.) harmful too?

cindycaricos
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I haven’t seen a video on period length. My cycle is the same and predictable but I only have full flow for 2 days and then spot for a day after that and that’s it. Is that normal?

jeanetteriviera
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I have a question that you might have already answered in a previous video. I'm wanting to start fertility treatments but they said my BMI has to be 40 or lower. Is there a reason behind that?

LadybugMeghan
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I just quit smoking weed like 2 months ago an I am turning 44yrs old on September 29th, 2022. My boyfriend is 46yrs old an he wants us to have kids before he turns 50 yrs old or not at all. I have a 21yr son that I gave birth to on May 31st, 2001.

Are we to old to conceive naturally through regular sex only?

As my boyfriend is Christian ✝️ an feels any other means of doing so would be like playing God or doubting in our lord.

katydougherty
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I am a “newish” nurse midwife. I have done very little fertility counseling yet in my work. Would your course be helpful for me in addition to the scholarly literature I am reviewing?

kg
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We don’t need a man to think either I’m 35 and freezing my eggs when I’m 36 before I’m 37 my eggs will be frozen

Arizona_lilly