Products to support fertility available at Organico
When you want to improve your chances of getting pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy, there are several steps you can take to specifically support your fertility and work toward what will become one of the most memorable decisions of your life.

To support your fertility, turn your focus to two key areas: lifestyle and nutrition. Fertility experts advise that you start making “fertility-focused” changes at least three months before conceiving. During this 90-day window the quality of your eggs is highly influenced by your diet and your lifestyle.

So what changes should you make to support your fertility?

Dietary Changes:

  • Load up on nutritional meals

    • Go for a diet that’s rich in whole, mostly plant-based foods. Stay away from added sugars and sweeteners as often as you can. Just say no to junk foods and highly-processed foods during this time.
  • Lose the caffeine

    • Caffeine—particularly coffee—has an irritating tendency to flush women’s bodies of essential vitamins and minerals—you’ll want to hold on to those for your fertility’s sake.
  • Alcohol: another big “no no”

    • Research shows that drinking (even drinking lightly) impacts fertility. Drinking can make it take longer to get pregnant and decrease the chances of having a healthy baby.
  • Start taking your fertility supplements

    • A strong program of fertility supplements really is an effective (and easy) way to boost nutrition and prepare your body to conceive. Which supplements should be part of your program? We’ll get to those in a moment…

Lifestyle Changes:

Fertile Reading

Copy of Getting Pregnant Faster, a book by Dr Marilyn Glenville
To find out even more about what steps you can take to support your fertility and a healthy pregnancy, take a look at Dr Marilyn Glenville’s book Getting Pregnant Faster. It’s packed with in-depth information about how to naturally prepare yourself for pregnancy.

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Men and Fertility

Looking for fertility advice focused on men? Hannah wrote an article for West Cork People covering that very topic. So come on, Let’s talk about men and fertility.

For a Complete Fertility Supplement Program, Start with These...

Wild Nutrition Fertility Supplements for Women and Men at Organico
Taking supplements can be such an important part of supporting your fertility and building up nutrient stores to nourish a developing baby. These are the nutrients that work hand-in-hand with all the dietary and lifestyle changes we spoke about earlier:

1. Multi-nutrient

Think of your all-rounder fertility-focused multi-vitamin as the foundation of your supplement program. If you take one of these complexes from either Wild Nutrition or the NHP, you get most of the recommended nutrients for fertility in their appropriate amounts.

We do, however, suggest that you take separate forms of CoQ10 and an Omega-3 in addition to these complexes. Both brands have little to no CoQ10 and Omega-3, but they do take care of everything else you’ll want to add to your nutrient regimen!

Wild Nutrition

Food-Grown Fertility for Women
Food-Grown Fertility for Men

These supplements are made by a company in the UK that’s figured out how to “pre-digest” nutrients by producing them from food rather than synthetics (which is what most companies do). Wild Nutrition Food-Grown Fertility for Women and for Men provides the forms of nutrients that your body can easily recognize in the amounts that your body can easily absorb.

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NHP

NHP Fertility Products for Women and Men
Advanced Fertility Support for Women
Advanced Fertility Support for Men

The NHP (which stands for Natural Health Practice) collaborated with Dr Marilyn Glenville to create this range of nutritional support focused on fertility. As with all of Dr Glenville’s products, you can be sure she’s chosen the most bioavailable form of each nutrient.

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2. Omega-3

Eskimo-3 Omega-3 with Vitamin E

The anti-inflammatory fats in an Omega-3 supplement can support fertility through their ability to bring balance to the production of hormones and improve the flow of blood to the uterus. A healthy store of Omega-3 will also come in handy during pregnancy by helping your body stay hydrated and providing enough Omega-3 to supply you and your baby. And because of the potential high mercury levels in oily fish, we feel that taking a pollutant-free Omega-3 supplement, such as Eskimo-3 Omega-3 with Vitamin E, is a safer source of this nutrient.

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3. CoQ10

One Nutrition Q10-MAX 

CoQ10 helps nourish a developing egg before ovulation thereby improving the health of the egg. As a powerful antioxidant, CoQ10 can also support a higher quality egg by reversing free radical damage.

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Take them together: Omega-3 and CoQ10 from Nordic Naturals

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Supplements to support fertility available at Organico

Important Nutrients for Fertility

If you’re on a fertility complex—such as Wild Nutrition or NHP— and taking your CoQ10 and Omega-3, there’s no need to take individual forms of the following nutrients—you’ll get enough of each from your multi-nutrient. But it’s useful to know how these nutrients impact your fertility, and to know your options if you ever decide you’d like to take them individually:

1. Folic Acid or Folate

Wild Nutrition Folic Acid
Solgar Folate

Folic acid—perhaps one of the most well-known fertility supplements—and Folate provide essential B vitamins that support balanced hormones and the healthy circulation of nutrient-rich blood. Dr Glenville writes, “It is now known that folic acid can prevent spina bifida in your baby, and it is essential that you get plenty both before and during pregnancy.” Folic acid also has a part to play in the healthy formation of DNA and RNA—or, the very genetic material of your baby.

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2. Zinc

Viridian Balanced Zinc Complex

Zinc contributes to a healthy balance of hormones, particularly those that are known to directly influence your fertility. It’s another nutrient that plays an essential role in the healthy formation of genetic material. This is all about protecting your fertility and the development of your baby on a chromosomal level to decrease the risk of miscarriage.

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3. Selenium

Wild Nutrition Selenium

With selenium, you get a powerful antioxidant that serves as a guardian against free radical damage. It helps to fortify the body against chromosome breakage, a known contributor to birth defects and miscarriages.

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When You’re Still Waiting

We understand that the road to pregnancy is sometimes a bumpy one, but don’t let frustration overwhelm you! If you’ve been trying to get pregnant for over a year, the first step is to look at the dietary, lifestyle and nutritional changes that can help you conceive. Come have a chat with us in Organico (or send us an email at info@organico.ie) and we’ll be happy to go through your options in each of these areas.

If a few more months pass and you still haven’t been able to conceive, we recommend you book an appointment with a nutritional therapist who specialises in fertility. A specialist will be able to prescribe fertility tests and design a personalised strategy that suits your body and your needs.

Since we already know and love their products, we recommend these clinics:

Free Nutrition Book with Pregnancy Supplement

Wild Nutrition offers a very useful gift for once you become pregnant. When you purchase their Food-Grown Pregnancy supplement—to be taken during pregnancy and breastfeeding—you’ll receive a copy of the book Your Pregnancy Nutrition Guide, written by the founder of Wild Nutrition, Henrietta Norton.

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Your Fertility Journey

We truly feel that the love, care and patience you show yourself during this season of preparation will make its way to your baby once you conceive. Whether you’re only getting started, or you’re seeking ways to improve a journey that began long ago, we’re honored to be part of the network of support that you’re bringing together for this incredible, life-changing journey.