If you’re planning to conceive, fertility prep should start long before the pregnancy test
Ideally, the groundwork starts months to a year out:
• Exercise consistently
• Prioritize whole foods
• Lose excess body fat if needed
• Stop alcohol ideally 4–6 months before trying to conceive
• Cut down or eliminate caffeine when actively trying to conceive
• Cover foundational nutrients like fish oil, magnesium, and a multivitamin
• Minimize plastic exposure (reverse osmosis water filter, no plastic bottles, no hot food in plastic, and avoid receipts)
Women should add a prenatal with methylfolate well before conception
Men should prioritize sperm mitochondrial health with nutrients like zinc, vitamin C, and ubiquinol
The goal is to improve the metabolic, micronutrient, and epigenetic environment both parents bring into conception
Dostoevsky was right; “Every self-betrayal is a sin. Whenever you go against your nature, your body reminds you.”
If you spend enough time with anything, you start liking it, even sadness. So let’s choose people and spaces that truly elevate us. Your peace is worth it.
If you actually read it, it’s a story about us being evil, and God acting as a loving Father who’s desperately trying to establish and maintain a relationship with His children who constantly keep spitting directly into His face.
BREAKING - Josh Jacobs has been arrested on five charges.
- Battery/domestic abuse
- Criminal damage to property/domestic abuse
- Disorderly conduct/Domestic abuse
- Strangulation and suffocation
- Intimidation of a victim.
Remember, your physique is a product of all of the good and bad inputs in your life.
This is actually extremely encouraging for those that are really far from where they want to be in terms of how they look and feel.
That means there is so much being done wrong, that even small changes really get the ball rolling.
An extra 2,000 steps go a super long way for a 300lb man.
2 gym sessions per week are wickedly impactful for those that are brand new.
2 nutritious meals per day, instead of convenient, super palatable options, can make a big difference in how one feels.
Buying a water bottle and getting a consistent fluid intake can even move the needle, sometimes quite a bit.
I understand want to fix lifestyle factors all at once, but that’s exactly what makes it unsustainable, or even un-startable for so many.