If you have been trying to conceive
with no success, your body may not be ‘baby
ready’. The great news is, making targeted changes can help you to fall pregnant faster and maintain a healthy viable pregnancy.
For many women, the key to improving fertility naturally is
to ensure healthy hormonal balance. One
such hormone is insulin. This hormone is so easily influenced and is the key to
overall hormone balance, regular ovulatory cycles, optimal egg quality, healthy
embryo development and implantation. It
also plays a role in maintaining the PH of cervical mucus.
So What Exactly Does Insulin Do?
Understanding the influence of
insulin is the first step in the right direction to making pregnancy happen. Symptoms of imbalance can include cravings,
weight gain, mood swings, headaches and insomnia.
Although maintaining balanced
insulin levels can be challenging, it is widely agreed that dietary changes, although
an integral component healthy insulin balance; are not the only influence.
Researchers now agree that there are
other underlying factors aside from diet such as infection, toxins, digestive problems, stress
and immune irregularities that can influence insulin secretion. [i]
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This is why identifying and addressing these underlying factors plays such an
important role in ensuring your body is baby ready.
My Solution is Simple.
Solve the Problem
That Others Seem to Ignore.
The good news is, improvement in
these areas can be achieved with a little helping hand from mother nature. Getting things right takes expertise,
guidance and an individualized approach.
The best way to improve fertility
naturally is to peel back the layers and get to the root cause. Without this important step, all your efforts
may merely be bandaging symptoms. Although
this can take time and requires expertise, the results can be startling. Restoring
balance to each of these levels will dramatically increase your odds of
conceiving. The great news is, with the
right guidance and advice, you can restore balance.
In my experience, fertility
challenges stem from a combination of factors that don't come down to a single
test result or finding. Isolating these
causes is fundamental to improving pre-conceptive health. This is why I recommend my patients complete
my full fertility profile and assessment.
I've had amazing success with women
faced with challenges and am confident to say that once your body is baby
ready, you will dramatically increase your odds of falling pregnant faster and
have a healthy pregnancy.
Narelle Stegehuis, is a practicing
naturopath and medical herbalist with over 30,000 hrs of in-clinic experience
specializing in the natural treatment of women's health and fertility. She is
both an accomplished writer, editor and recipient of the Australian Naturopathic
Excellence Award.
To find out more, visit www.bumpfertility.com.au
To find out more, visit www.bumpfertility.com.au
[i] Wang, C.-H., Wang, C.-C. and Wei,
Y.-H. (2010), Mitochondrial dysfunction in insulin insensitivity: implication
of mitochondrial role in type 2 diabetes. Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences, 1201: 157–165. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05625.x
[ii] Tehrani, A. Bonakdar., Nezami, B.
G., Gewirtz, A. and Srinivasan, S. (2012), Obesity and its associated disease:
a role for microbiota?. Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 24: 305–311.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2012.01895.x
[iii] Yasuhiro Uchida, Kyosuke Takeshita,
Koji Yamamoto, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Takayuki Nakayama, Mieko Nomura, Xian Wu Cheng,
Kensuke Egashira, Tadashi Matsushita, Hideo Nakamura, and Toyoaki Murohara. Stress Augments Insulin Resistance and
Prothrombotic State: Role of Visceral Adipose-Derived Monocyte Chemoattractant
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