Why Optimizing The Immune System Matters For Fertility with Dr Sarah Wilson

We’re digging into how the immune system impacts fertility.

To get pregnant and have a healthy pregnancy, we need a robust immune system.

Pushing your body with hormones and medications is not the answer. This can lead to cancelled cycles, poor response to medications, abnormally tested embryos or pregnancy loss.

Remember, the majority of us can get pregnant naturally.

So, how do we boost our immune system and improve the chances of pregnancy success?

Today I’m welcoming Dr. Sarah Wilson ND to the podcast. Dr Sarah is the visionary founder of Advanced Women's Health, leading a healthcare revolution across Canada with clinics in Ontario and British Columbia.

In this episode, you'll learn:

1. How immune dysfunction impacts preconception health (i.e. signs/symptoms)
2. Underlying reasons for poor immune function and how to address them (i.e. nutrient deficiencies, gut infections, toxin exposure and more)
3. Tests we can use to identify healing opportunities, boost the immune system and improve reproductive health

Learn more about Advanced Womens Health at AdvancedWomensHealth.ca/fabfertile 

 

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HIGHLIGHTS:

 

2:34 WELCOME DR. SARAH WILSON

3:20 DR. SARAH’S JOURNEY INTO NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE

• Dr. Sarah’s decision to go into research to help herself with her health struggles
• Putting research into practice to empower people
• Since the pandemic, we’ve seen a lot more about the hormone-immune connection

6:12 IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION & YOUR HORMONES

• Your immune system’s job is to save your life.
• The immune system's job is to consistently resource itself and that can result in damaging and depleting other systems of the body
• How your immune system affects your hormones
• From your immune system's perspective, if you could die tomorrow because of an infection, we don't need hormonal balance and happy periods
• Inflammation changes how your brain and your ovaries talk.
• It's one thing to make an egg and to develop hormones. It's another thing for the immune system to allow that to implant and embed.

10:21 SIGNS TO LOOK DEEPER

• Symptoms of pelvic inflammation
• Pay attention to short or fluctuating cycle length

14:07 AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

• There is a direct connection between the antibodies against your thyroid and the antibodies against your ovaries.
• Ovarian suppression versus ovarian damage
• Once you have one autoimmune condition, you could get another every three to five years.
• How the pandemic led to an uptick in POI independent of autoimmunity
• Healthy bodies get pregnant so we need to go through the five to seven causes of disease and figure out which ones are related to you.

19:56 BUILDING YOUR HEALTH TEAM

• You need a healthcare team.
• There's such power in understanding how to navigate both the conventional medicine and functional worlds.
• We have to consider male factor infertility.
• We have to take our health into our own hands.

28:05 NAVIGATING THE MEANING OF HEALTH & DISEASE

• As a society, we have really skewed health and disease up until this point. People thought they were healthy until they had a disease.
• Health is not the absence of disease.
• You can take charge of your health and change your outcomes

33:21 LAB TESTING

• Starting with the basics is so helpful.
• The ratio between your neutrophils and lymphocytes has immense amounts of research showing why it’s a valuable marker of inflammation in the body
• Dr. Sarah’s testing recommendations: CBC, iron, B vitamins, vitamin D, liver panel, cholesterol, insulin, antibodies, CRP, ESR
• Testing is dependent on the patient
• It’s important to be able to customize a plan specifically for you

41:53 CONNECT WITH DR. SARAH WILSON

• Just because you haven't found the right person or practitioner, doesn't mean you're not worth trying again

 

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RESOURCES:

Fab Fertile Method - https://fabfertile.com/pages/what-we-do

  

Ultimate Guide to Getting Pregnant This Year If You Have Low AMH/High FSH

 

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A theme we see with premature ovarian insufficiency, diminished ovarian reserve, low AMH and high FSH is weakened immune function, You may be experiencing symptoms such as :

❌ High stress
❌ Frequent Infections
❌ Easily Catch Colds and Coughs
❌ Skin Breakouts
❌ Slow Wound Healing
❌ Persistent Fatigue
❌ Muscle and Joint Pain
❌ Digestive Issues
❌ Autoimmune Disorders

To get pregnant and have a healthy pregnancy we need a robust immune system.

Pushing your body with hormones and medications is not the answer. This can lead to cancelled cycles, poor response to medications, abnormally tested embryos or pregnancy loss.

Remember the majority of us can get pregnancy naturally.

That’s why I’ve compiled a free guide called "Boosting Your Immune System For Conception: A Whole Body Approach".

This comprehensive guide gives the exact information so you can improve pregnancy success. This guide is for you if you want to:

✅ Know exactly how to support your immune system with action steps that you can implement right now so you can improve pregnancy success. (includes supplement, diet and lifestyle suggestions)

✅ Key factors that contribute to lowered immune system and why this matters when you are trying to conceive. (Plus why this is so important if you've had infections).

✅ Which biomarkers you need to get tested (we want optimal bloodwork levels - being told everything is normal doesn't cut it) so you can figure why you're struggling to conceive and how to optimize your preconception health

✅ How to improve both egg and sperm health, optimize your menstrual cycle, improve implantation, reduce the risk of pregnancy complications so you can have a healthy pregnancy.

If you want to claim the free guide, just email hello@fabfertile.ca and reply "IMMUNE"

 

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Vitamin D deficiency may be linked to decreased ovarian reserve, as indicated by higher serum FSH, low AMH and low antral follicle count. In simpler terms, ensuring adequate vitamin D levels could potentially boost your fertility odds.

We see low vitamin D levels all the time with our clients.

Check out our Fab Vitamin D3/K2 supplement - https://fabfertile.com/products/vitamin-d3k2-supplement

Get a 15% discount by going to FFLNaturals.com and using code GPN15 at checkout.

 

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