NUTRITION

Dietitian Kaitlin Williams Eckstein talks about nutrition and fertility

Dietitian Kaitlin Williams Eckstein talks about nutrition and fertility.
Fertility
There are a couple ways to help increase your chances of fertility and help balance out your cycle. There are different foods and food eating patterns that can help you balance out your hormones. Learn more about this with Dietitian Kaitlin by watching her explain general tips and tricks to balance out hormones and demonstrating two ways how to include them into your diet by cooking a smoothie and a quesadilla!
Foods that can help with your fertility/balancing out your cycle -Make sure you’re eating enough dietary fat in every meal and snack -micronutrients are also important especially vitamin C (can help trigger ovulation) , vitamin E (cycle regulation), zinc, omega 3, magnesium (hormone balance) and folate (help reduce the risk of neural tube defects) -whole milk can also be helpful, studies have shown that there is a correlation between full fat diary and decreased risk of infertility
Eating patterns that can help with your fertility -Timing of your meals can help balance hormones, eat more frequently balanced meals throughout the day -Gut health, useful in the metabolism of hormones