Health Coach Sarah Clark | Host of the Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast | Author of Fabulously Fertile
Interview 289 with Health Coach Sarah Clark | Author of Fabulously Fertile + Host of Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast
Thursday May 2, 2019
I have another podcaster on the line we are going to talk about eating healthy today. The Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast.
Thanks for being on the show today. This is something that touches me personally, because Mike and I never had kids. I always tell people if I would have had my iPod touch when I was trying to get pregnant I’m sure we would have had kids. But anyway tech has come so far so I’m glad you have some solutions for people!
Tell people about your podcast and business.
I help couples who are struggling with infertility. I had my own struggle I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure at the age of 28 and that is the loss of function of the ovaries before the age of 40.
For me I had these weird health systems
- cycles were irregular
- urinary tract infections
- acne in early 20s
- cycles were irregular
I got married at 25 kids at 28 my cycles were still irregular so I went to my OBGYN and that’s when I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. I remember her reaching up for the packet to the IBF clinic and off I went.
Basically being told that my only option was to have donor eggs. I never looked back to any of the health systems I was dealing with.
So I went straight to the clinic and got a list and I got a donor egg and had my daughter. She is 17! So this is the back in the day you say donor eggs and people are like IDK what you are talking about.
Now with western lifestyle people are having effects.
I was wanting to have kids close together, I was super stressed, I went in and those embryos failed. On the second list with another donor I was lucky enough to have my son will fresh transfer he’s 14.
After that my health took a nosedive, after I had my daughter, I took antibiotics for every sinus infections. I ended up
- gut
- vertigo
- toenail infections
- dandruff
- chronic bladder infections
- peeing blood
- yeast infections
- sinus infections just wouldn’t go away
I was in HR at the time, I wanting to bring life coaching into the corporate environment. I took a life coaching course.
Health and wellness
That’s where I discovered I had these food sensitivities
- I found out I was intolerant to diary and gluten
- low and behold by making lifestyle changes
- bladder infections went away
- sinus infections
- skin became clear
- stool test a little while after that, so then I healed the gut
For me, I didn’t discover this to be 40
if you are cycling naturally for me food and diet are the key to everything.
I love to hear that, my show is all about growing healthy food, I am more the organic eater and we have that in common because it sounds like we were saying in the prechat your husband is more the gardener too.
for our couples that we coach
elimination diet
Take out top allergens
- dairy
- gluten
- corn
- soy
- peanuts and
- eggs
Take them out for 10 days.
you can do anything for ten days then you systematically introduce them. You don’t go out and have a pizza.
then this is the important part, this is the gold standard to see how food impacts their body.
First you bring in corn which
part of the body
corn can flare up the asthma
talk about a lot on your podcast, it’s the most GMO and sprayed with glyphosate. A lot of people have issues with corn.
Can we back up a minute, People complain about corn, people don’t realize corn syrup is in like everything
Over 60-70% are tolerant to dairy.
high fructose is in everything, I have found corn starch in orange juice. What is it doing there? It’s a filler.
I think dairy and gluten are becoming a lot more mainstream but still even in my circles of people, maybe not as much, I did a whole rack of people who were doing KETO.
I was talking to a lot of people and the amount of people doing KETO there was the paleo crazy and now KETO.
Keto can be right for some people so we do the elimination diet
feel dairy
feel sinus
feel fleghmy
digestive issues
impacts its digestion
- gas
- burping
- mood
- adhd
- depression
- anxiety
- stiff joints
- arthritis
- acne
- eczema
- rosacea
- dermatitis
- auto immune
- function thyroid
- thyroid dysfunction
The food piece is huge because we are in the middle of this experiment
we recommend everyone going organic because we are in the middle of this food experiment as we use glyphosate on everything
herbicides and pesticides
impacting
it used to be 60-40% impacting fertility and now it’s 50%50%
What about all these other symptoms.
Look at all the other diagnosis and symptoms were all facing. I’m hearing all sorts of symptoms it affects other people.
a lot of times
- this infertility diagnosis
- premature
- especially with unexplained infertility
People usually look at food last but it should be what are you placing on your fork everyday
if you have a food sensitivity
hormonal birth control
a lot of people were on the pill for years which can impacts gut health. You can eat this beautiful diet and if you are not absorbing it effectively.
food sensitivities
gut infections
work with people
looks at DNA in stool
the majority of people are coming back with gut infections multiple parasites
yeast infections again it’s the health of the gut
what predisposed you, was it the environmental toxins, was it the pill, high use of antibiotics?
I was peeing blood and then I changed my diet and made these lifestyle changes as well
food is the most important thing to start with the elimination diet to see how food impacts your body so you will know exactly. Sometimes we think we have this digestive issue or
skin issue or we’re just an irritable person
When we take this food out we take the inflammation out of our body and start o feel improvements. that’s causing how it’s impacting us
Didn’t I hear on an episode of your show that or a blog post that walks you through how todo the elimination diet step by step.
Totally. It released the middle of may
how and why to do the elimination diet we go through the exact steps.
We recommend going 100% organic during this time
I’m sure you maybe talked about this what the dirty dozen. If it’s cost prohibitive that at least the foods from the Environmental working group, I think strawberries there were over 75 pesticides on strawberries. Click here for the clean 15. Never get conventionally grown strawberries their like grown with so many pesticides.
I did talk about the dirty dozen and the next ones are like spinach and kale. I found that at school at the salad bar I would pick strawberries almost every day. Especially I wills and there in the store for like ten minutes going back and forth, I should buy these their healthy fruit and I never eat fruit, and then I’m like I shouldn’t buy these because they are wrapped in plastic.
My husband always says I should wash them with vinegar I think.
tap water
It’s not about perfection
typically
filled have water that is
chlorine floride
Berkley
water filter
tastes awesome
why do I feel so parched?
I have interviewed a few doctors, I think the challenge I have is the food is not being absorbed well. I need to figure out my gut health. Yesterday I was talking to this fitness coach, and I was telling him I always conk out at mile 10, and he was saying if I just learn what my body needs, and to eat something every 20 minutes while I’m training, a fitness bar, gatorade, gel pack or what.
I have never ever thought when running a marathon that it would be my nutrition I always thought it was just not training enough running far enough etc. So the value of nutrition is just great because he told me that would make all the difference.
I have 2 more quick quesitons. Your in canada? In toronto. You get local food all year long.
Cucumbers
tomatoes
I guess they are importing some of the oranges
apples
broccoli
cauliflower
dry and wash your produce
30-40k
organic box delivered weekly
farms in your local area
customize the box
surprise to what I get
organic food
greenhouses
may 2nd
cucumbers tomatoes
kale
importing from oranges
imported
broccoli
cauliflower
bananas
most of the stuff s we get into the growing season
micro greens
cilantro
basil
basil plant will come in the box
exciting
I’m glad you said you get a box, a lot of my listeners might be interested in filling your box! A lot of my listeners are interested in growing for market. We are focused on the same things for the same reasons, I love to eat organic food and veggies all the time. I love our fruit like our raspberries. I do find fruit is messy, but that’s my weirdness. I like to hear about those things. Even if they have extra produce. If I go out of my way to share this, kale is one of them, I think it’s #2 or #3 on that list of dirty dozen an I think it grows well.
i also get a local meat box
it’s your health if your health is impacted
preventative
people with fertility
diagnosis
straight to the fertility clinic
60k dollars
elimination diet
lifestyle changes
going on in our body
some people
go that way
if you can’t conceive
food is a really good place to start
foundational pillars
sleep
movement
environmental toxins
plastics
IDK I have them I literally feel
disease
tools of functional medicine
broader
catching it before it goes
blood canisters review
and so a lot of times we find out there’s a gut infection going on with the man
hight sensitivity to gluten
non-celiac
equally as important
doesn’t want to procreate
highly sensitive to gluten
cross reactors
avoid oats
even gluten free oats
risk of contamination
body is having a reaction to that
they can be intolerant to dairy
cross reactor
protein
intolerant
lactose intolerant
Kevin
take out dairy and gluten
highly sensitive to
sandwich with bread
crumbs can cause inflammation
weeks to months to reset itself
food sensitivity thing to look into
switch everything to organic
eliminations diet
allows you to see your body reacts to food
xyz that i had on Friday
never really know
skin issues
acne
food that we had there
come to us
have an intolerance to eggs
infertility
more intolerant to the whites to eggs
food sensitivity test
leap MRT
foods and chemicals
foods in the red
food in the yellow
bring it back in
heal your gut
inflammatory choose
restrictive diet for ages
health issues
normal and common
not normal
having constant digestive issues
diarrhea
why are we having those things
digging into the gut health
stool testing
targeting approach
based on testing
allow
supplements
parasite
may recommend an anti parasitic
congeal
we recommend a low and slow approach
different for each person
herbs
professional grade supplements
different probiotic
s could be built with dairy
fillers and chemicals in them
top allergens
contain wheat
soy
contain top supplements
right ones for you
infertility
I can take
what to take
personalized approach
basic thing
probiotic
megaspore
microbiologist
koran
everyone should
deficient in magnesium
supplement
looking at omegas
inflammation
women trying to get pro
so we’re not physicians
educator
functional diagnoses
educate you
testing
targeted action plan
work with a lot of medical professionals
disease
functional medicine is rooted in science
progressive
no longer want to just write a prescription
food sensitivity
exactly what you
says your intolerant to some of your favorite foods
start to improve
elimination diet
food impacts your body
dutch
drug ran
melatonin
trying for years
stres and heartbreak
IBF multiple cycles
loss
stress
associated with this
mind body fertility program
integrate mindfulness
hormone testing
where your cortisol levels
come to us
full TSH
full thyroid panel
vitamin d
why is it
comprehensive approach
whole way along we’re educating you to empower you to make these decisions
decisions fro your health
looking at environmental toxins
cleaning products
looking over at
gradually make these shifts
work with couples over 6 months
gradually making
people get pregnant naturally
could only use donor eggs
undiagnosed autoimmune diseases
people that have
unexplained fertility
seven months using diet and lifestyle
tools of functional medicine
fertility clinic
30% success
increase
the first step is to book a call
3 different levels $2000-6000
they can offer there
comprehensive program
you and your partner making those shifts together
missing male equation
couple on the same page
a lot of times if there is female fertility
male may not know what to do
making changes
supporting
effected
wants to support his partner
both people talking
emotions surrounding this
both people make the lifestyle
the new farm
Toronto area
ten years
whole process
set up the farm
foodie
for that
For fertility
fabfertile
get
my book
fabulously fertile
on amazon
basic steps for diet and lifestyle
lots of recipes
dr ben lynch
dirty genes
talking bout the 7 main genes we have
diet and lifestyle switches
recurrent pregnancy loss
60% of people have that
dirty genes
environmental toxins
zen Honicutt
moms across america
advocate
for everyone switching to organic
starting at the municipal level
spraying thing int he packs
grass
water supply in the different area
she’s hard core
life threatening
eyes going back in his head
peanut allergy is gone
awesome movie that talks about organic
secret ingredients
start of that movie
Kathleen decreer
21 diseases
non gmo organic
impacting our health
secret ingredients
movie
trailer I cry
autism
skin rashes
horrific things
free download
yoga
fertility yoga
free fertility diet challenge
click on freebies
get pregnant naturally
functional medical doctors
grassroots movement
20 years from now
what were we doing
starting with yourself
creating a ripple effect
food organic gardening