Preconception Health with Emma McNichol - Embodied Wellness Radio | Episode 11

If you are looking to grow a family at any point in your life, you won't want to miss this discussion with fertility expert Emma McNichol!

Emma has completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a 3 year full-time comprehensive Holistic Nutrition Diploma. Her special interest is in reproductive health and fertility. Emma is extremely passionate about helping others get to know their body better as a way of achieving their reproductive health goals. She loves educating and inspiring change through her Instagram account, online courses, and coaching programs. She feels especially passionate about helping clients regulate and understand their natural menstrual cycle and the power of preconception health for optimizing fertility and pregnancy outcomes. She loves to educate and bring awareness to the concepts of epigenetics and fetal programming when it comes to fertility, pregnancy, and early childhood development. She feels that we have the power to help shape the future generation by mindfully supporting the overall wellness and lifestyles of parents and their children, from well before birth and beyond.

As an educator she teaches about reproductive anatomy & physiology, hormones, the menstrual cycle, birth prep, nutrition and overall mindset and lifestyle practices that support wellness. As a practitioner she utilizes a holistic approach, investigating her clients’ current nutrition practices, habits, mindset, symptoms and menstrual cycles as a way to extract information about their overall health. She enjoys exploring mindset blocks, routines, habits, nutrition, movement, deficiencies, toxicities, sleep, stress, self-care rituals and more in order to help her clients achieve a lifestyle that is conducive towards their goals. Her practice is built on the foundations of holistic lifestyle and nutrition support, yet encompasses knowledge from traditional Ayurveda, western medicine, functional lab testing, herbs and supplementation.

Podcast Links:

• Listen on Spotify
• Listen on Apple
• Listen on Google
• Listen on Stitcher
• Listen on TuneIn

Connect with Emma

• Instagram: @empoweredfertility
• Website: https://empoweredacademy.ca
• Free Online Course & Support Group: https://www.myalignedpurpose.com/coffeeclub

Emma's Favourite Books:

• Taking Charge of your Fertility by Tony Weschler
• The Period Repair Manual by Laura Briden ND
• Beyond the Pill by Jolene Brighten
• It Stars with the Egg by Rebecca Fett

More Resources:

• The Link Between Obesity & Sperm DNA - Dr. Rhonda Patrick & Joe Rogan Discussion
• The Biology of Breastmilk - Dr. Rhonda Patrick

• Women AND men’s health prior to conception affects offspring | Elissa Epel & Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Studies:

• Mothers that were vitamin D deficient early- to mid-pregnancy had a 34% higher risk of having a child with ADHD than mothers with sufficient levels. This data was collected before the Finnish national recommendation for vitamin D intake during pregnancy. - (Study) Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy connected to elevated risk of ADHD

• Preconception micronutrient supplementation positively affects child intellectual functioning at 6 y of age: A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam

• Multivitamin/Folic Acid Supplementation in Early Pregnancy Reduces the Prevalence of Neural Tube Defects
• Associations between Acetaminophen Use during Pregnancy and ADHD Symptoms Measured at Ages 7 and 11 Years – Thompson et al. (2014)
• Obesity-related DNA methylation at imprinted genes in human sperm: Results from the TIEGER study – Soubry et al. (2016)

This podcast/blog is for information purposes only.  The views and discussions from guests or hosts is for educational purposes , and should not be taken as medical advice.  Please contact your medical provider for more information on anything you may have questions about.  The views and discussions on this episode are not a political stance on any topic.  

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