How To Get Healthy And Get Pregnant

In our private group, I get this general feeling that there’s so much information out there and it’s hard to figure out who to listen to or what applies to you.  But a common theme that I’m sensing is that many people are putting stress on their bodies without even realizing it. If you remember from a previous episode, we went over the idea of the kidney energy reservoir and how genetics, lifestyle choices can seriously impact how quickly we use up the energy in the reservoir.  Even though I think people get this concept that if you withdraw from a savings bank without depositing back in, you’ll end up with a deficit...I don’t think the message really hit home because Chinese medicine concepts can be a little abstract.   So today I want to approach this from a functional medicine perspective and talk about stress, the different types of stress, and how it seriously damages your HPA axis and therefore can affect your chances of getting pregnant.   In this episode, I will: Explain the concept of hypothalamic-p