Is gut health important for fertility? with Caitlin Townsend

Are you taking the right food for your body to help support your fertility? Did you know that your gut is almost completely responsible for your fertility issues? Is gut health important for fertility?

In this episode, Caitlin and I go into detail about our infertility journeys and how gut health contributed to our experiences. Your gut and environmental stressors play a huge part in healing your infertility. 

Caitlin is the founder of Nourish by Caitlin. She uses food as medicine and a whole living lifestyle approach to get to the root cause and create optimal health to improve her fertility. Caitlin is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner as well as a Chef trained at The Culinary Institute of America. Through her own fertility journey, she has been able to utilize her passion for food and knowledge of functional health to help others on their journey. 

We explain why eating highly intolerant food will prolong your ability to heal and become pregnant & why IVF is not a recipe for success. 

Topics Discussed:

• Finding your food intolerance to heal.
• Effects of gut health on fertility health. 
• Overcoming life’s stressors to heal infertility. 
• Being consistent and keep to what is right for your body.
• Address your thyroid issues to heal and stay healthy.

Episode Highlights:

• [1:36] How Monica’s personal infertility journey inspired her to understand it deeply.
• [11:29] Learn to explore with food to find what works for your body.
• [17:25] Figuring out how to work around your stress and distress to stay healthy.
• [26:14] Caitlin shares her infertility journey and experience with failed IVF. 
• [38:33] Understanding natural killer cells and how that relates to your gut health. 

Standout Quotes: 

• “If you’re still eating food you’re highly intolerant to; it’ll take you a lot longer to heal.”
• “What goes into your gut is going to affect everything else throughout your entire body.”
• “There’s a lot of complications that come with not trying your best to maintain your health.”

Connect with Caitlin here: https://www.instagram.com/nourishbycaitlin/

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Monica

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Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.