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· May 27, 2014

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Posted @withregram • @dr.avivaromm Did you know

Posted @withregram • @dr.avivaromm Did you know that most women in their childbearing years are low in these nutrients and that this can impact cycle health, fertility, and pregnancy?⁠
🔸 Protein⁠
🔸 B6⁠
🔸 Vitamin E⁠
🔸 Vitamin D⁠
🔸 Folate/Folic acid⁠
🔸 EFAs⁠
🔸 Iron⁠
🔸 Iodine⁠
🔸 Calcium⁠
🔸 Zinc⁠
🔸 Magnesium⁠
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Whether you’re trying to conceive the ‘old-fashioned way,’ you’ve started on a fertility treatment journey, or your fertility treatments are on hold due to the current pandemic, there’s a lot you can do to supercharge your fertility. At the top of the list of important strategies to support you becoming pregnant is getting onto an optimal fertility diet.⁠
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There’s a wealth of data that shows our diets can make a powerful contribution to getting (and staying) pregnant. And where there are many reasons for fertility challenges, including PCOS, endometriosis, anovulatory infertility, and other causes, what you eat can have a profoundly positive impact on most root causes of fertility problems. What we do – or don’t – eat influences everything: your menstrual cycle regularity, ovulation egg quality, the health of your uterine lining, your immune system, and your gut and vaginal microbiome - all of which influence fertility.⁠
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Fertility powerhouse foods can make a tremendous contribution not just to getting pregnant, but staying pregnant, having a healthy pregnancy, and optimizing baby’s health and your postpartum healing. .⁠
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I have been practicing doing nothing lately… whi

I have been practicing doing nothing lately… which is super hard. I am a busy body, a list maker, but over the last year I have been allowing myself to do nothing. Not scrolling on my phone, not reading, not cleaning (thats the hardest one) and just sit and observe. After a few uncomfortable minutes of guilt, my mind becomes quiet and I just observe.

🕊The other day while doing nothing i saw a flock of hummingbirds fly into our tree. There was about 100 tiny birds! I would have totally missed that if I was checking out Instagram or thinking of all the things i needed to get done! I am now trying to schedule “nothingness” as a regular part of my days off work. So the next time you ask me what I have been up too, I will most likely say nothing!

☯️ Wu wei is closely connected to the Daoist reverence for the natural world, for it means striving to make our behaviour as spontaneous and inevitable as certain natural processes, and to ensure that we are swimming with rather than against currents. We are to be like the bamboo that bends in the wind or the plant that adjusts itself to the shape of a tree. Wu wei involves letting go of ideals that we may otherwise try to force too violently onto things; it invites us instead to respond to the true demands of situations, which tend only to be noticed when we put our own ego-driven plans aside. What can follow is a loss of self-consciousness, a new unity between the self and its environment, which releases an energy that is normally held back by an overly aggressive, wilful style of thinking. #wuwei #fertilityacupuncture #surreyacupuncture #whiterockacupuncture

You know it is getting warm out when your schedule

You know it is getting warm out when your schedule is stacked with pregnant women ready to have their babies. The summer heat can make these women more swollen and uncomfortable and tired.

Cervical ripening acupuncture is used to get the baby in a good position, soften the cervix and promote dilation. It makes mama’s body ready for labour when baby says it’s showtime. We can start doing cervical ripening acupuncture at 36 weeks and continue weekly until baby arrives. #cervicalripening #pregnant #acupunctureforbirth

The OBAA recognizes that having cultural represent

The OBAA recognizes that having cultural representation within someone's birth team leads to better birth outcomes. In order to support the movement to increase respectful, supportive and equitable perinatal healthcare globally and to provide more voices to our organization, we would like to offer free 1 year memberships to perinatal acupuncturists who are Black, Indigenous or people of colour. Applicants must still meet the basic qualifications for membership, but all fees will be waived. To apply, please fill out the application form at https://ob-acupuncture.com/membership-2/

#healthequity #representation #acupuncture #safebirth #birthmatters

Over the past year, I have been on a mission to ch

Over the past year, I have been on a mission to change all my beauty products to clean non toxic products.

These are my current fav’s:

Skin care : @beautycounter , @kpurenaturals
Hair products: @joshrosebrook , @sajewellness
Soap: @rockymountainsoapco
Nail polish: @sundays_studio
Deodorant: @schmidtsnaturals @kpurenaturals
Self Tanner: @shopsaltyface

The average woman uses 12 different beauty products every day — cleansers, conditioners, hair dyes, fragrances, skin care products, scented lotions, nail polish, and makeup, to name a few. Take a quick glance at the labels, and you'll see a cocktail of chemical components.
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You want to avoid these ingredients:
BHA and BHT: In moisturizer, makeup,
etc. May cause cancer and interfere with
hormone function.

CYCLOMETHICONE and siloxanes:
Widely used in moisturizer, makeup, hair
A (diethanolamine) and DEA compounds
products, etc. May interfere with hormone function and damage the liver.

DIBUTYL PHTHALATE: In nail products. Toxic to reproduction

FORMALDEHYDE releasing preservatives:
Widely used in hair products, moisturizers, etc. Formaldehyde causes cancer.

PARABENS: Widely used in makeup, mois- turizers, etc. May interfere with hormone function. Associated with breast cancer.

PARFUM/ FRAGRANCE : Widely used even in some products marketed as “unscented” (often the last ingredient). Mixture of chemicals that can trigger allergies and asthma. Some linked to cancer and neurotoxicity.

PEG: Widely used in conditioners, moisturizers, deodorants, etc which may cause cancer.

PETROLATUM: In hair products, lip balm/lipstick, skin care products. Petroleum
product that can be contaminated with cancer-causing impurities.

SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE (SLES) and SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE (SLS): In products that foam such as shampoo, cleansers, bubble bath. SLES can be contaminated with 1,4-dioxane, which may cause cancer. SLS may damage liver.

TRICLOSAN: In “anti-bacterial” products such as toothpaste, soaps, hand sanitizers.

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