Health Coach Sarah Clark | Host of the Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast | Author of Fabulously Fertile

Health Coach and Fertility Expert Sara Clark

Interview 289 with Health Coach Sarah Clark | Author of Fabulously Fertile + Host of Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast

https://fabfertile.com/

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

About the author, Jackie Marie

I'm an artist and educator. I live at the "Organic Oasis" with my husband Mike where we practice earth friendly techniques in our garden nestled in the mountains of Montana.

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