by shannon | Jun 15, 2018 | Cecily's Recommendations, Fertility, Health Tips, Nutrition
Get your sunshine vitamin today! Optimal Vitamin D levels are incredibly important for fertility and healthy pregnancy. Vitamin D acts as a hormone in the body and is instrumental in signaling genes that make estrogen. It also can assist with the formation of mature...
by shannon | May 8, 2018 | Cecily's Recommendations, Fertility, Nutrition
We know that vegetables are good for us. We know that there are vital nutrients, none of the bad fats and lots of great flavors. What we explore in this blog are the vegetables that are optimal for fertility and why. Add a wide variety of vegetables. Add a wide...
by shannon | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog, Fertility, Nutrition
As we continue on our series of nutrition and how it effects your fertility, today we are going touch on the importance of opting for fruits lower in sugar. Have lots of berries, they are rich in antioxidants and tend to be lower in naturally occurring sugars. Apples...
by shannon | Apr 14, 2018 | Blog, Cecily's Recommendations, Nutrition
Once a year the Environmental Working Group sets out to test and analyze multiple samples of fruits and vegetables, to see exactly how much pesticide contamination we’re consuming. The group analyzed more then 38,800 nonorganic samples taken by the USDA and the Food...
by shannon | Apr 11, 2018 | Cecily's Recommendations, Fertility, Nutrition
Nutrition is an often overlooked aspect of “infertility.” While I use that term only for the sake of those hoping to find answers, unless you do not have a uterus, you indeed have some level of fertility. The treatment I provide to patients suffering from...
by shannon | Apr 5, 2018 | Cecily's Recommendations, Nutrition
Eat PREbiotic foods and take a prebiotic supplement Prebiotics are the things that your helpful digestive bacteria like and thrive on. In food form they are: Garlic Onions Asparagus Barely ripened bananas Apples Cocoa Jicima Seaweed Artichokes Berries Wild rice Raw...
