Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Doctor & Endocrinologist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in fertility and is the best-selling author of two books: "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making” and “(In)Fertility: Struggles, Secrets, & Successes.” In this episode, Dr. Aumatma and Dr. Lauryn talk about age, fertility, and helping patients live healthy lifestyles. Stay tuned!-Highlights0:28 - Dr. Aumatma talks about what got her started down her career path in fertility2:58 - The myths around fertility4:00 - Thoughts on “high risk” pregnancies9:14 - Dr. Aumatma shares what it’s like working with her older patients16:13 - The relationship between mindset and fertility21:36 - Optimization tips for helping with wellness and fertility27:48 - How dieting can affect your fertility31:52 - Dr. Aumatma talks about optimizing unique plans for each of her patients33:59 - Seed Cycling40:58 - A lightbulb moment Dr. Aumatma has had in her own health journey42:51 - A wellness hack!44:59 - How to learn more about Dr. Aumatma-About Dr. AumatmaDr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Doctor & Endocrinologist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in fertility and is the best-selling author of two books: "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making” and “(In)Fertility: Struggles, Secrets, & Successes” Dr. Aumatma was awarded the “Best Naturopathic Medicine Doctor″ award locally in 2015 & 2020 and recognized as a top “Women In Medicine” Doctor in 2020 & 2021. In addition to supporting couples through individualized care in person and long-distance, Dr. Aumatma also trains practitioners who want to specialize in fertility. She has been featured as the holistic fertility expert on ABC, FOX, CBS, KTLA, MindBodyGreen, The Bump, etc., along with being interviewed for countless podcasts on topics of fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum health.-Connect with Dr. AumatmaFacebook | Dr. Aumatma, ND: Holistic Fertility SpecialistWebsite | holisticfertilityinstitute.com-Connect with Dr. LaurynFacebook | Dr. Lauryn LaxTwitter | @drlaurynlaxInstagram | @drlaurynlaxWebsite | drlauryn.com -Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript)Dr. Lauryn (00:02):Well, Dr. Aumatma, I'm so happy to have you in the house, and I, you are absolutely one of my favorite people to talk to about the topics of hormones, but, and also really fertility, which is your specialty. And would love before we tackle the, the problem, so to speak, of age being a factor or maybe not being the only factor in fertility give us a little bit of overview of what got you into doing this work you're doing in the world.Dr. Aumatma (00:28):Yeah. that's a great question. I was in my very, very early thirties kind of married, woke up married to this man, realized that he was starting to talk about kids, and he was like, ready to get into it. And I, I, like everything in my body would just go, like, be screaming no. Every time he said that. And I was like, I married this person, I should really wanna have kids with him. And I tried and tried and I could not get myself to get on board with that. And simultaneously my hormones had gotten out of whack, which I think was like a direct reflection of my body, just screaming, no. Mm-Hmm. like, you're not doing this with this person. But it took, it took me about nine months of research and kind of like diving into the deep end of hormones and fertility to come out with a very clear sense that a lot of the myths that we're often, that we often hear and are taught even in medical school, even in naturopathic medical school around like the fertility cliff at 35, they just weren't true.(01:43):And there's a lot of data around that, but we ignore the data for, for some of these myths that got created in the 1800s, not even through science. So I can, I'm happy to share more about that, but I just feel like that is one of the major things that had me, like, take a step back and say, whoa, if everything that I have been taught is founded on this myth that fertility drops off of a cliff, what else is possible? If that's not true, what else is not true? And then how can I approach this differently? And that's really where I started and why I got so passionate about fertility.Dr. Lauryn (02:27):Yeah. So personal experience, that experience is always the best teacher there, . And I just love the onion layers of of health and functional health too. And just really exploring like, you know, the world is not flat. Huh. And that's something that we've been told. And so yeah. You talk about the myth of fertility dropping off a cliff. Like where, why is that? Or like what are some of the reasonings of that, perhaps conventional thought puts behind that?Dr. Aumatma (02:58):Yeah, so the, the myth actually traced all the way back to the 1800s in France where the Catholic church noted that women over 35 did not...
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