Is Your Body Healthy Enough To Become Pregnant?

Whether you are having trouble getting pregnant, or have had one or more miscarriages, you are not alone.  According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), about 10 percent of women (6.1 million) in the United States ages 15-44 have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant.  Currently, to treat infertility, medications are used to boost ovulation or adjust hormone levels.  There is intrauterine insemination, commonly known as artificial insemination, where the woman is injected with specially prepared sperm.  There is also assisted reproductive technology (ART).  ART works by removing eggs from a woman’s body and then mixing them with sperm to make embryos. The embryos are then put back in the woman’s body.  Now, I would like to talk about an alternative approach.  Let us not focus on just trying to get pregnant, but getting the body healthy enough to become pregnant.  It is one thing to get pregnant.  It is another to achieve a healthy pregnancy and a give birth to a healthy baby.  Standard treatments are not addressing the overall health of the mother. This information is also applicable for women who are either planning to carry a child in the future or want to achieve good overall health and weight loss goals.

Before becoming pregnant, you must first address and restore the integrity and function of your health and immune system.  This seems to be missing in standard care.  When a woman gets pregnant and is also suffering with leaky gut, sugar balancing issues, multiple food allergies or intolerances, or toxicity, she is putting her baby at risk of developing autism, eczema, asthma and food allergies.  Pregnancy is stressful enough on the body and if you do not begin the process in optimal condition, it will take a toll on your health and your baby’s health.  In my practice, my primary goal is to address the overall health of the woman and determine if she is healthy enough to become pregnant.  If a mother is having health challenges, chances are, she will pass them on to her child.

There are several conditions that can decrease the woman’s ability to become pregnant, including digestive problems, immune disorders, adrenal fatigue, dysglycemia, food allergies, chronic inflammation, hormonal imbalances, nutritional deficiencies and toxicity.

When trying to achieve pregnancy, focus cannot be solely on the ovaries, the fallopian tubes or other parts of the reproductive system. Because “every system affects every other system,” the body must be considered as a whole. Infertility is oftentimes a side-effect of something else.  For example poor gut health leads to blood sugar problems, and that leads to constipation.  With constipation, the body cannot eliminate unneeded hormones, and estrogen accumulates.  Food not digested properly due to lack of hydrochloric acid (HCL) results in putrefied, fermented food that becomes rancid in the stomach.  Low HCL results in the gallbladder’s reduced ability to secrete bile for the emulsification of fats.  Low gallbladder function causes a sluggish liver, and it cannot efficiently detoxify the body of hormones, toxins and other metabolites.  When the gallbladder malfunctions, there is no signal to the pancreas to secrete digestive enzymes.  Therefore poorly digested food moves to the intestines.  Rotting food in the intestines causes inflammation, infection and intestinal permeability, also known as “leaky gut.”  This prolonged stress exhausts the adrenals, and weak adrenals adversely affect the thyroid.  This progression continues until the underlying problem is corrected.

Proper treatment requires the supervision of a qualified healthcare professional.  Goals would be to eliminate foods that create chronic immune responses, manage insulin resistance, normalize blood sugar balance, normalize body mass index and balance hormones.

For those women who plan to get pregnant or are trying to get pregnant, just remember that the improvement of your overall health will benefit the health of your child.

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