Interstitial Cystitis and Fertility with Callie Krajcir, RD
Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast
Release Date: 05/01/2023
How to Prepare for Pregnancy with an Autoimmune Diagnosis
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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Win Wednesday: Success Story with Kaile
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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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Pelvic Floor Exercise with Ashton Koehlmoos
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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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Navigating Infertility and TTC in the Social Media Era
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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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Follow Up With Listener Caitlin and her Pregnancy Update
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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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Pregnancy Loss And Options For Care
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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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Know Your Options on Reproductive Health Care with Dr. Gary Levy
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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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Why RDA's Aren't Cutting it with Ryan Woodbury
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Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Ryan Woodbury, the co-founder of Needed the Prenatal Vitamin Company, who dedicates her work to helping women get the vitamins they need for preconception, pregnancy and postpartum. Caitlin, Sophia and Ryan speak about the importance of taking a quality prenatal vitamin, ways prenatal vitamins differ and why you should speak with a trying to conceive dietitian rather than your general OBGYN. Be sure to have your notepads ready, as this episode is a goldmine of wisdom that...
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Midwifery Care Thrive Wellness with Dr. Jordi - ND Pediatrician
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Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Jordi, a Pediatric Naturopathic Medical Doctor based in San Diego, CA with a passion for growing healthy humans from before birth through childhood. Dr. Jordi serves patients throughout California and specialize in Pediatrics at . Throughout her medical career, she worked extensively with autoimmune and chronic disease patients and discovered that many diseases are preventable. This is what fueled her passion for working with children and preconception, so she can work to prevent...
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Male Factor Infertility with Dr. Leah Gordon
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Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Leah Gordon, who works in educating, supporting, and bringing healing to women along their womanhood journeys as they prepare for and move toward motherhood. Leah and her husband always knew they wanted to expand their family and become parents. Into their trying to conceive journey they had to overcome many obstacles. Through their journey Leah found out her husband had a very low sperm count. Caitlin and Sophia speak with Leah about the importance of looking at both partners when...
info_outlineOn this week’s episode of Food Freedom and Fertility we are going to discuss Interstitial Cystitis and Fertility with Callie Krajcir, RDN, Nutrition Coach. Callie has lived with IC since she was very young. Elementary through college her symptoms would cause her pain and put her on a rollercoaster of emotions as she continued to see a variety of doctors who did not know what was wrong with her. During college she tried a variety of treatment methods and learned to advocate for herself because doctors would eventually give up. She felt isolated and learned how to alleviate a lot of her symptoms through her diet. She entered the field of nutrition in hopes of being able to help others suffering from the same condition.
Today, Callie shares with us her story and her symptoms, which started with burning while urinating. She also helps provide insight to what a flare up could look and feel like and how it affects her personal life and how to be a supportive partner/friend to someone who maybe suffering with IC. She also shares how her journey about how nutrition helps keep her symptoms minimal and exactly what foods and other triggers that can be bothersome for IC.
IC is somewhat of a taboo topic because some people feel awkward with the discussion but 4-8 million women and 1-3 million men have IC in the US. There are subtypes of IC and Callie helps break down the differences. The onset of IC is more common around the age of 30-40. Callie shares a quick list of foods that may cause a flare up and also supplements that can support IC patients, along with suggestions of what type of treatment team would be helpful. She also shares strategies that can be put into place to help with sex.
If you or someone you may know maybe suffering from IC, please visit Callie’s website: https://www.callieknutrition.com to learn more. Callie has a signature program that is called Road to Remission, which she teaches about IC and nutrition After the 6 months of the program (Identifying diet triggers, elimination diets, etc.) the client gets a lifetime membership to the program. IC is a condition that requires a lot of community and support. When in Callie's program people feel as if a 50lb weight have fallen off their shoulders which helps them in the mental health arena as well as reducing the stress response in their bodies associated with that stress.
You can find more information about Callie at the following links below:
Website: https://www.callieknutrition.com
IG: CallieKnutrition
Podcast: ICYou Podcast
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