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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Release Date: 09/14/2020

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Valerie Eugenio on working with Caitlin to conceive her daughter. Valerie is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. After battling with painful periods she went on birth control which made her have a cycle every few months. After getting off of birth control she noticed her periods were not coming so often and showing up about every 60 days. After binging the podcast and implementing tips from both Sophia and Caitlin her cycle got down to 40 days...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia speak with Catherine Staffieri about the importance of blood sugar balance when trying to conceive.  Catherine is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist currently working as a Nutrition Manager at , one of the fastest growing healthtech start-ups aimed to help anyone discover and reach their health potential. Catherine has counseled thousands of clients on their glucose scores reviewing over 750,000 hours of glucose data and recorded meals in the process while recommending nutritional adjustments to improve...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia speak about progesterone and why Sophia made the switch to specialize in this subject when helping women who are trying to conceive.  This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are wanting to start from scratch and learn about all things progesterone as well as how to talk to your doctor if you think you might need some help making enough progesterone to get pregnant. Caitlin and Sophia engage in an in-depth discussion on requesting labs, symptoms of having low progesterone, how to...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Paulette Kamenecka. Paulette is an economist, a writer and a podcaster interested in women's health. She's written about the science of autoimmunity, what we currently know about different aspects of the immune system, and the immune system in pregnancy. Her podcast, focuses on the difference between what women expected in this enormous transition and what they experienced. It also includes expert insights on many issues that can visit a pregnancy.  In this episode...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Kaile Garcia on working with Caitlin to conceive her daughter. Kaile is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. After suspecting PCOS she took Caitlin's course which helped her better understand her body, fertility and her hormones. In this episode, Kaile talks about how important it was to cut out coffee, alcohol and other bad habits to help her hormones. She worked on moving her body daily and switching to a good quality prenatal. Once she...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Ashton Koehlmoos. Ashton is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. She is a fitness educator supporting all women in the ttc, pregnancy and postpartum stages.  She now educates and help you find the inner strength your body posses through your breath & inner core unit to create support and stability through all chapters of motherhood. She wants you to feel empowered to make decisions on when you need to scale back your training and when...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Hannah Bowers. Hannah was first diagnosed with PCOS after she was newly married and looking at starting to plan for a family with her husband.  What began as a personal journey to motherhood became a deep passion for sharing reliable resources for every stage of the journey. Now, she is dedicated to taking what she has learned and sharing the most useful information so that others can become mothers and thrive.  Caitlin, Sophia and Hannah speak about the positives and...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Caitlin Dillon. This is an update episode! We had Caitlin Dillon on during season two to talk about her fertility journey. She took our advice and it led her to getting further tests done along with working with a great medical team. Now, Dillon is more than halfway through her pregnancy and speaks about how her faith has allowed herself and her battles the struggles of infertility and navigate through this pregnancy. The three women speak about protecting your peace while trying to...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Allison Tartari. Allison found her way to midwifery care through the pregnancy and birth of her fourth child. She knew she wanted to help support women during pregnancy, and avoid the unnecessary interventions she encountered with her other children. She became passionate about educating families on other, safer options for birth. She became a D.O.N.A trained doula and followed that path for 8 years, attending many births in and out of the hospital setting. It became clear to her that...

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Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Gary Levy is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist Dr. Levy is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of FertilityCloud, America's first and only comprehensive, fertility, telemedicine platform. Through FertilityCloud all evaluation and treatment for fertility can be done from the comfort of your home. Dr. Levy's has a primary focus on treatment of refractory infertility, Assisted Reproduction, Ovarian Stimulation, Endometriosis, and Uterine...

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What is fertility like from your man’s perspective? Our guest Eric from Yo Sperm gives his insights into at home sperm testing, in office semen analysis, and the male mind when it comes to fertility testing. This is one of our most valuable and interesting episodes yet!

Yo Sperm is an at-home semen test. It’s fully private and works with your smartphone, revealing sperm count and motility from the privacy of your own home. The kit costs far less than a laboratory analysis, and can be repeated over time to see how your man’s semen changes. Not to mention you can forgo the clinical experience and crusty issue of Hustler from 1998.

Eric from Yo Sperm talks about the benefits and drawbacks of at home semen testing, as well as options if your results come back as abnormal. Though Yo Sperm is not a replacement for a full clinical semen analysis, it can be a great place to start! You can order the kit yourself anytime, no need to wait 6-12 months for your doc to give you the go-ahead. The system works remotely with 100% privacy and confidentiality. Your results are even compared to other men who have fathered children.

This episode then goes into the heart of the matter. WHY are so many of our male partners obstinate about getting a semen analysis? What makes men so reluctant to do this simple test, when women’s fertility testing is so much more expensive and invasive? Eric dives in and gives us a man’s perspective on why this is such a big deal for some men.

While semen quality is NOT a reflection on masculinity or viability as a man, it IS a reflection of your overall health. Addressing semen quality issues can bring nutrition and lifestyle issues to light! Semen quality is not static. Your partner’s semen quality can change drastically with proper nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Even if your results aren’t amazing, don’t fret! There are so many things we can do to impact the quality of your man’s semen!

Heavy hitters that impact semen quality are:

  • Obesity/body composition
  • Processed food/fast food
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco
  • Cannabis
  • Testicular temperature (think cyclists, horseback riding, and working for hours in high heat)
  • Anabolic steroids
  • Testosterone replacement therapy
  • Hair loss treatments and medications
  • Stress
  • Illness

The Yo Sperm results page also gives recommendations about nutrition, exercise, and sexual health! All of these things can impact your semen quality, and even though there is no dietitian or doctor reviewing the Yo Sperm results, these recommendations are generally safe and effective for most healthy men.

So, what about when it is time to bring some doctors and clinicians?

Eric goes into the details of how semen analysis labs measure things like semen volume, DNA fragmentation, motility, sperm progression, morphology, shape, etc. Yo Sperm only gives a baseline analysis, and anything more nuanced needs to be done by a medical professional.

Fertility is nuanced, and we want you listeners to feel empowered that there is a lot that can be done with nutrition and lifestyle to boost fertility and improve chances of conception.

So how do you get your hands on one of these sweet Yo Sperm tests??

Ebay, Amazon, and directly through Yo Sperm are online options to get this test. Plus they ship internationally! Anyone, anywhere can test their semen quality and begin finding some answers. If you are interested in trying this test for your family, use our FFFpodcast15 code to get 15% off your entire shopping cart from YoSperm.com