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Anyone who's been on a fertility journey knows how deeply it touches your life in deeply personal ways. The sadness. The weight. The desperation. It's all-consuming. Heart-breaking. And takes its toll.
From the compassionate pen of a practising dietician comes this accessible guidebook to help you restore or optimise your fertility.
Rigorously researched this helps you take control of some of the limiting factors which can negatively impact.
Covering the six pillars of lifestyle medicine (nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, relationships and avoidance of toxic substances), the book acknowledges that all of these areas need attention, and focusing on them will help you encourage positive behaviour change. Nutrition is after all, only one piece of the puzzle.
This book is a blueprint for healthier living to support and empower couples to embrace the benefits of a plant-based diet and many more healthy habits. If you have searched for solutions that will help to optimise your chances of a successful outcome on your journey, try out this authoritative source. Full of empathy and helpful hints and tips from her own fertility journey and well as those of her patients, this will help you take control back. Simon expertly covers all areas from the reproductive systems, PCOS, endometriosis, gut health, and supplements. Through mythbusting, and with so many self-help interventions, there is tons of advice, and even recipes too!
Encouraging people to not allow a diagnosis of infertility stop them in their tracks, Simon highlights how lifestyle changes can impact egg and sperm quality and lead to happy and successful pregnancies. There are of course no guarantees but this is a must-read filled with practical steps that may help you if you are trying to conceive or are on your own fertility journey.
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The Plant-Based Dietitian's Guide to FERTILITY Synopsis
Dietitian Lisa Simon's empathic guide to achieving a healthy pregnancy and birth, with a whole food, plant-based diet as the core lifestyle measure
A guide to optimizing male and female fertility via a whole food plant-based diet and lifestyle interventions, drawing on the growing evidence that animal products and trans fats can have a detrimental impact on fertility and supporting the beneficial effects of plant-based eating. The role of macro- and micro-nutrients, the nutrients and fiber found only in whole plants, and the importance of tackling sleep and stress issues are explained together with guidance on how to harness the latest knowledge. Lisa Simon draws on her personal experience of overcoming fertility issues with a plant-based diet and on her professional work with many clients seeking a healthy and successful pregnancy.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781781612231 |
| Publication date: |
27th April 2023 |
| Author: |
Lisa Simon RD |
| Publisher: |
Hammersmith Health Books an imprint of Hammersmith Books Limited |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
360 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Parenting
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About Lisa Simon RD
Lisa Simon BSc(hons), BA(hons), RD is a Registered Dietitian and studied Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics at Cardiff Metropolitan University for four years before graduating with first class Honours in 2014. She began her career working in Morriston Hospital in Swansea. After a year working with patients with a wide range of clinical conditions, she took up a rotational post at the University Hospital of Wales, where she worked in Neurology, Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine. She then took up a temporary, specialist post in Critical Care in the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, before specialising in Gastroenterology in 2016. Lisa now works full time at an inpatient adolescent mental health unit as part of a multi-disciplinary team as well as working at CQC (Care Quality Commission) registered healthcare service, Plant Based Health Online, running individual and group consultations and delivering educational webinars. Her clinical areas of expertise are gastrointestinal conditions, liver and pancreatic disease, and male and female fertility. Lisa has written a clinical update on diet and fertility for the British Dietetic Association and is one of the three Editors of Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice published in 2022. She is passionate about providing an evidence-based, individualised approach with her patients, using all the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine to enable a holistic and detailed assessment and treatment plan.
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