Hormonal health, nutrition, and pregnancy.
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UPFs are the devil
I had been lagging on read Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken because I previously read Metabolical which goes pretty deeply into UPFs. I finally got around to it and it is honestly my new go-to for UPFs. It was such a good read. For a while I have been blaming my health issues on…
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Nutritional Modulation
OK, one last post about The Autoimmune Cure by Sara Gottfried because overall I did not love this book. There were a few interesting points she made, but by and large, this book is written for people who have experienced trauma and want to learn if it has caused their autoimmune disease. Aside from my…
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Pregnancy & Autoimmunity
Now that I am postpartum, I have been thinking about my hormonal recovery. Well, I have been thinking about recovery in general, but my hormones have been in the back of my mind. After dealing with the immediate hormonal drop off that I felt the week after delivery, I can only imagine that my body…
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What’s in the Water?
I have been thinking a lot about drinking water lately – mostly in the context of the quality of the water that is going into my baby’s bottles – wondering if I really do need to be boiling the water, using “nursery” water, or if I can get just use filtered water. Filtering water has…
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The three things I did to get pregnant on the first try
Full disclosure, I still feel like it’s an absolute miracle that I was able to get pregnant so quickly at 36 years old. However, I can’t ignore the fact that I did do some very deliberate prep in order to prepare for that important moment. Maybe someday this can help other “advanced maternal age” (ugh)…
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The only book I needed during pregnancy
I will admit that I have consumed A LOT of prenatal, postnatal, and parenting advice during my pregnancy. I read too many books, listened to too many podcasts, read too many articles, talked to too many experts, and took too many classes. Still, I’m sure I’ll feel completely unprepared once baby arrives. Even so, after…