How to Eat to Treat Infertility

1. Avoid hormone disruptors found in meat and dairy products. Animals are fed hormones to help them get fat quicker or produce milk longer. These hormones can get into the meat and dairy products and disrupt your hormone balance. As well lactating mammals (i.e. cows) naturally secrete hormones in their milk which can further disturb your hormone balance. Organic meat and dairy are healthier options but still will contain the hormones naturally present in cow milk.
2. Keep blood sugar stable. This is probably the single most important thing you can do . Avoid consumption of very starchy or sugary foods. Your diet should mainly consist of organic meat, poultry or fish, lots of vegetables and salads, moderate amounts of fruit, nuts and seeds.
3. Increase your intake of cruciferous vegetables to help the liver rid your body of excess hormones and xenoestrogens (environmental toxins that can act like estrogen) through detoxification.
4. Avoid storing or heating food in plastic containers that can leach hormone disrupting chemicals into your food. Chemicals from plastic can act as potent hormone disruptors.
5. Eat organic fruits and vegetables to avoid hormone disrupting pesticides.
6. Avoid eating tuna, shark, swordfish and farmed salmon due to the excessive mercury content of these fish.
7. Increase your consumption of dark green leafy vegetables like kale, Swiss Chard, collard greens, beet greens, etc
8. Increase your intake of anti-oxidant rich foods like berries.

A healthy, fertility-optimizing diet is crucial to conceive and maintain a healthy pregnancy and produce healthy children. For a more comprehensive, cost-effective and natural approach to diet, nutrition and infertility see a licensed naturopathic doctor who specializes in natural treatment of infertility.