Are you unsuccessfully trying to conceive a baby? Do you know how important a healthy diet is for fertility and are you committed to keeping yourself healthy for fertility? Read our complex guide on eating for fertility to increase your chance of conceiving a healthy baby.
1.Work towards a healthy BMI Both Mum and Dad need to ensure that they are in their healthy weight range. Carrying excess weight impacts upon our hormones and therefore, for mum, this can reduce ovulation and for dad, extra weight will affect both testosterone levels and affect sperm production. Being underweight can be just as…
Gluten is like glue in your digestive system! Remember how you made glue by mixing flour and water together when you were little? The same thing is happening in your digestive system…eek! Gluten is a rubbery protein found in wheat, rye, triticale and barley. It is a big problem for people with Coeliac Disease but…
I love the ritual of making herbal tea…I love using my favourite teapot and cup, the teas too are fragrant and a perfect source of easily absorbable vitamins and minerals. Of course if you know me, you have probably tried one of my herbal medicine tonics and no, they do not taste amazing, unlike my…
The ups and downs of women’s hormones Okay, guys, listen up! We know that you know that women are complex creatures, and that’s one of the things you love about us, right? But sometimes it can be a little overwhelming trying to understand where your lady friend is at, when she’s loving and affectionate one…
If you’re looking for help getting pregnant, you’ve come to the right place. At Tonic Natural Health, we specialise in fertility, offering advice, consultations, as well as our tailored Fertility Formula program. Read this blog post to find out how to get pregnant quickly, thanks to understanding your menstrual cycle. Getting pregnant with Tonic Natural…
Good nutrition is vital for preconception health as well as through your pregnancy and beyond. Nutrition is the building block for both the egg, sperm and also ensuring the mother has a sufficient storage of nutrients so that she isn’t depleted throughout her pregnancy. Starting to eat well when you find out you are pregnant…
Before thinking of baby Most men and women doing pre-natal planning will decide to take prenatal supplement. If you go to your GP for this, they will recommend a chemist brand supplement starting with E, but this formula is actually all wrong for what we need. You need to include top quality supplements that are…
There is a really strong link between diet and fertility. Providing your body the nutrients it needs to make a strong healthy baby is super important. Depending on what your diet is now, and where it needs to be for pre-pregnancy and pregnancy, you may need to spend 3-6 months prior to conception cleaning up…
Before the preganancy When you first start to think about having a baby, the majority of people will just stop using contraception and get started on the baby making process! However it is super important to have some blood tests done at this point because some deficiencies may prevent pregnancy from occurring, some may make…
There could be a number of reasons why you want to increase your fertility. Perhaps you have been trying for a while and you’re not yet pregnant, you may have had a long and arduous journey and been told that it “may not happen”, or a baby may be just a tiny thought in the…
Why alcohol won’t help you increase your chances of getting pregnant” We all know that it’s not recommended to drink while pregnant because it could harm your baby, but did you know that alcohol can have a devastating impact on your fertility? The findings from studies done around the world are indisputable. Alcohol should be…
Are you a woman who has no idea when your period is coming, or do they come like clockwork every month at the same time? Your cycle should arrive approximately every 28 days and hopefully, ovulation will occur each cycle too. The way we work out cycle length is we count the first day your…
Targeting the health of the egg and sperm through diet and supplementation makes a HUGE difference to fertility outcomes. Firstly let’s look at the egg You want the quality of the egg to be the best it can be (think free-range organic VS cage eggs) so it can survive the sperm “attack” and the journey…
The way your body deals with stress is to send out chemical markers that increase inflammation, in the hope that the inflammation will attract other things in our blood that will heal the stress. However, our body perceives all stress the same, whether it is a cut or burn, or psychological stress like a bad…
We are exposed to toxins in our environment almost everywhere we turn but we can make our own environments a safe haven from chemical onslaught through our choices in our cleaning products, cookware, house paint, carpet, deodorant, makeup, food, and water. Products harming our fertility Examining each and every product we come into contact with…
