Episode - Infertility and Thyroid Health with Sarah Clark

EPISODE 52

Infertility and Thyroid Health with Sarah Clark

Getting to the root of fertility issues requires a whole-body approach.

For this episode, Sarah Clark of Fab Fertile joins me to discuss overcoming infertility. While the discussion focuses on couples with challenges conceiving, the insights that Sarah shares will benefit anyone thinking about having a baby.

Sarah is a certified life coach accredited by the International Coaches Federation and a health coach with training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She’s the author of Fabulously Fertile: Supercharge your Fertility Naturally, and her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples in making diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby. On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast, she shares that we can eventually reverse infertility with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions.

In this episode, we talk about Sarah’s fertility journey, common causes of infertility, why you need a whole body approach, how food sensitivities and gut infections impact your fertility, Sarah’s approach to testing and using it to create a targeted plan, the connection between thyroid hormones and your fertility, action steps you can take if you’re struggling with getting pregnant, and more.

 

During this episode, you’ll learn about:

  • Sarah’s premature ovarian insufficiency diagnosis
  • The journey to having her children through donor eggs
  • How following a passion for health coaching led Sarah to uncover her health issues
  • Common causes of infertility
  • Taking a mind, body, spirit approach to
  • How food sensitivities and gut infections impact your fertility
  • Sarah’s approach to testing and using it to create a targeted plan
  • Why both partners need to make diet and lifestyle changes
  • How to slowly reduce your environmental toxin exposure
  • Thyroid-related trends Sarah has seen in her clients
  • Why we reference optimal ranges as well as lab ranges
  • The connection between thyroid hormones and your fertility
  • How to know when it’s the right time to move forward with IVF
  • Side effects associated with IVF
  • Action steps you can take if you’re struggling with getting pregnant

 

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