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Why The Fertility Rate Is Falling with Vida Delrahim and Ronit Menashe - E64
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Fertility rates are dropping worldwide, and more people are struggling to conceive than ever before - sometimes without any real answers from doctors as to why.
Trying to start or grow a family can feel overwhelming, isolating, and loaded with blame or confusion, especially as modern life adds stress, toxins, and poor nutrition into the mix. Partners are left wondering if they're too late, not doing enough, or simply at the mercy of their biology.
But what if the narrative around fertility could be reframed?
This episode cuts through the fear and frustration to reveal a simple yet practical approach to reproductive health: one that treats fertility as a team effort, not a solitary struggle. Hear firsthand from women who turned heartbreak into action and discovered how to prepare mind, body, and relationship for healthy conception, all while battling the modern challenges that can stand in the way.
Vida Delrahim and Ronit Menashe are the co-founders of WeNatal, a company reshaping prenatal and fertility care by emphasizing team-based preparation for both parents. Vida, with a background leading global events at Nike, and Ronit, an entrepreneur deeply involved in the functional medicine space, combined their personal experiences with miscarriage to develop a science-driven approach to fertility. Together, they’ve built WeNatal into a resource-rich community, providing education and premium supplements that have supported over 30,000 families in navigating fertility with a focus on shared responsibility and health optimization.
“We never imagined we'd be what would be born out of [the] heartbreak that we both suffered with our pregnancies.” - Vida Delrahim
In this episode you will learn:
- Why fertility should be treated as a team sport, and the impact of a three-month “trimester zero” preparation for both partners before trying to conceive.
- The connection between sexual health and overall health, including how optimizing sperm and egg quality can serve as a barometer for broader well-being.
- How environmental toxins, diet, lifestyle factors, and everyday stressors are contributing to a modern fertility crisis - and practical ways to address them.
- The critical differences between men’s and women’s prenatal supplements, with a focus on key nutrients for each and why antioxidant support is essential.
- The ongoing value of prenatal and postnatal supplementation for both partners, even beyond conception, to support mental clarity, recovery, and long-term health.
- Actionable, low-barrier steps for improving fertility and general wellness, such as incremental changes in household products, gratitude practices, and building healthy routines one step at a time.
Resources
- Connect with Via and Ronit on WeNatal’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_natal/
- Sign up for the WeNatal fertility masterclass: https://wenatal.com/pages/masterclass
- Shop WeNatal’s range: https://wenatal.com/collections/shop
This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods Podcast Agency:
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Transcript
Fertility as a Team Sport
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We realize that if we can treat fertility like a team sport, if we can really empower, and how amazing would it be if we actually took the three months to actually prep and not be told, you're too late, you should just start trying immediately.
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And that's a narrative shift that we're very passionate about.
Introduction to Health Spam Podcast
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This is the Home of Health Spam podcast, where we profile health and wellness role models, sharing their stories and the tools, practices, and routines they use to live a lively life.
Meet Ronit and Vida
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Ronit and Vida, it is a pleasure to have you on the Home Health Spam podcast. Just before the show we were talking about, this is some of the stuff I was reading about recently. And so I'm even more excited to have this conversation with you today.
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But before we jump in to everything that you're doing with WeNatal and otherwise, how would you describe yourself? I'm a lively mom of two girls, entrepreneur, um wellness advocate, and community builder.
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Great. I'm going to echo that. I'm also a lively mom of two wife, daughter, sister, entrepreneur is probably the thing lighting me up the most these days.
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Well, fantastic. And I think that is maybe where we'll start, although they're inextricably linked, I think, in both y'all's cases of the entrepreneurship and the angle you talk was driven by a lot of this familial side and in your individual
The Birth of WeNatal
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story there. So could you just share what Weed Natal and why you started building this business?
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Great question, Andrew. So Ronit and I, just going back a little bit, we met 18 years ago in our early single days. We were both establishing our careers at Nike, um really hitting the LA dating scene and quickly just becoming best friends.
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Little did we know, we never imagined we'd be what would be born out of heartbreak that we both suffered with our pregnancies. And so eight years ago, i was running global events with impeccable precision.
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Yet I treated pregnancy like a typical casual dog. No supplements, no prep, just life as usual. At 14 weeks, I ended up going to an OBGYN appointment.
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And I will never forget how that room went silent. He delivered the words that no parent to be forgets. I'm sorry. There's no heartbeat.
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I gasped. I can't even express what, you know, devastation i went through. And they quickly handed me a pamphlet and told me to try again when I felt ready and sent me through a waiting room back of glowing bellies.
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I drove home and cried so hard. I remember my jaw ached. And then I do, you know, what most athletes do. We dig into the
Male Factors in Fertility Issues
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data. And lucky for me, Ronit was my best friend.
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And she was working for arguably one of the best functional medicine and practitioners, Dr. Mark Hyman. And she was so deep in the functional medicine space, she believed in root cause medicine. And even though I was in the wellness space, I didn't even know to look beyond. And she she pushed me. She said to push beyond my normal labs.
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Tess revealed I had Hashimoto's six months of targeted nutrition and lifestyle, slight changes. I was pregnant with my daughter, Dahlia, who's now almost eight. And when I thought the nightmare was over, except in spring 2020, the peak of COVID chaos, I was pregnant again.
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and the same deafening silence at the scan. But the kicker this time, one week later, my best friend Roni called me in tears 11 weeks along. Perfect prenatal routine and the same outcome.
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So we were two best friends, two losses and literally zero satisfying answers. When it happened to me, the doctor patted me on the back and said, it happens a lot after 40. It's just your age.
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And when I asked, what can I do to improve my chances of a healthy pregnancy? Because I knew better. I knew about health optimization. She said, there's nothing you could do.
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Let's keep trying. And that moment crushed me because
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It felt like I was given no roadmap, but I didn't take her word for it. I knew better. I was working, as Vita mentioned, in functional medicine alongside the best doctors in the world and discovered a statistic that shocked me.
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Up to 50% of miscarriages are tied to male factor issues. But nobody really talks about sperm. And for us women, oftentimes, we take the burden of fertility on our shoulders.
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So what we did is we built an evidence but backed nutrient stack for my husband. He was a champ taking like 10 pills that I pieced together from like different like multivitamins with like CoQ10 and all these like antioxidants.
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And then Vida convinced her husband to do the same. And we were committed to a three month trimester zero regimen. High dose antioxidants, investing in sleep, investing in movement, toxin cleanup, acupuncture for me, which I did like three times a week and no toxic substances for our husbands.
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We we don't like those toxic substances. And our husbands not only improve their sperm quality, but they also started to feel better. They had more energy and more focus.
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And nine months later, I delivered Emma at the age of 42 and Vida welcomed her healthy daughter, Davina, three months after me. So we knew our experiment worked.
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yeah and And that's really what led us to meet up at a local Whole Foods. I'll never forget the day. We literally sat in a Whole Foods with our laptops and opened a Google Doc named Bestie Co. And the first the first line item was prenatal care for her and him.
Founding Principles of WeNatal
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And that's the afternoon that Wienetal was born. It wasn't just a supplement. It was a cultural reframe. So if you have equal biology, equal prep, functional doses for egg and sperm quality, which was something that we were not seeing on the market.
00:06:25
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We really wanted to provide education over fear and focus on the science and backed three month preparation, which is exactly what we did. And ultimately, WeNatal is really about community over isolation.
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and we knew it wasn't just us. We were living amongst this global fertility crisis and something had to be done. and that's why our brand was born. There's so many directions. I want to take it just out of personal curiosity. But I think especially for the listeners who may say, oh, you know, I'm not at the age where I'm thinking about pregnancy or I'm past age that I'm thinking about
Sexual Health's Role in Overall Health
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it.
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Could we take a step back and could you explain why sexual health is health? i mean one, just biologically, like as a species, as every other species, our only reason to be here is to propagate the species. So our sexual health is definitionally our health, but you know this far better than I do.
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Well, we know, you know, from even hearing just like our own husband's like anecdotes, once once they started to improve their sperm quality, they started to feel better. They started to have, um you know, more mental clarity, more focus.
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And so it's interchangeable. Sperm quality. is a barometer of health. And if you're improving your sperm quality, you're also improving your health. If if you're improving your health, you're improving your sperm quality.
00:07:48
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And we hear this from countless people, I think, like in the early days of WeNatal, where we were both also like, you know, doing marketing, doing the brand, but also doing customer service. I got a customer service inquiry that someone was asking me, you know, I feel like that there's this side effect to the prenatal. Like all of a sudden I have like a really strong libido and like, you know, it doesn't bother me.
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My wife might be a little bothered. And, you know, at the end of the day, um you know, a libido is also the foundation of like a healthy person. And so I think there is so much to be said around this topic and we can like really go into it. And it really speaks to also like your question also takes me to the question of like, why are we living in this fertility crisis?
Global Fertility Crisis: Causes
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Right.
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We know, as Vida mentioned, that one in five people are suffering from infertility. We know that sperm counts firm counts are down and have dropped 62% since 1973. We know that testosterone is down across all age groups And we also know that we're seeing something similar in dogs. And so when you ask yourself, like, what is going on?
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Why is fertility declining like this? You have to look at the big picture of health and where where are we looking at what's happening with overall health. We know that 70 percent of Americans eat ultra ultra processed foods. We know we' are hearing um of insane amounts of chronic disease, obesity, heart disease.
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And so all of this is kind of tied together um in this picture of just what's going on with our diet, lifestyle and environment. And so it's impacting health, it's impacting fertility, and they're they're both one and the same.
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On that, I mean, I think people can hear it. There are two different ways to interpret this. So there's one of, hey, all this blame, and you're eating the wrong thing, you're not moving your body enough, et cetera. And then there's the the doctor saying, hey, you can't really do anything other than try again.
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And I think your story, and in general, a lot of it may not be your fault, right? The plastics, that hey, everybody, it's convenient, that's why they're selling this, they're pushing it, and it's getting in our system. And how does that, endocrine disruptors, how how does that impact us?
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Or we moved more to an office-based culture. We're more sedentary. The the foods that it's easy to access, especially for lower-income people, are highly processed and and coming through our bodies differently. So it may not be all your fault.
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But at the same time, on the flip side, the opposite of what your doctor said, it is our responsibility. And we do have more control over this than I think people realize. It takes work and it takes conscious effort.
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um But I think both of your stories illustrate it There is a path.
Preparing for Fertility Like a Marathon
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and And that's what really excites me by what you're doing at WeNatal, not just with the vitamins, but also, you know, the story that you said is a community, right? Like what you're doing as a as a community.
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Yeah. i mean, if you even look at my example, like I used to run marathons, many of them back in the day, and I would never um do one and just like sign up and go take some shoes and run a marathon. You would literally get it.
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Most people get a training plan, maybe a coach, maybe like really watch your protein and your intake and you prepare for a marathon. But it's kind of mind blowing to us that in our journeys, we surveyed hundreds of customers before or like friends and family before we launched this brand. And 99% of them, the male didn't do anything differently. And in fact, it was really all the burden was on the women. And so we realized that if we can treat fertility like a team sport, if we can really empower, which we weren't given that empowerment, we were kind of just dismissed in our journeys and told there's nothing you can do.
00:11:55
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then we can really create this optimization because we're all having kids later in life. And to your point, we're all living in a toxic soup. We want to focus on the things that we can actually do. And if we think about the marathon thing, I think people inherently train for some things and don't. And how amazing would it be if we actually took the three months, trimester zero, as it's called, and to prep, to actually prep and not be told you're too late, you should just start trying immediately.
00:12:20
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And that's a narrative shift that we're very passionate about. I wonder, i think it'd be very difficult to disentangle, but the this idea of a team sport, there's the benefit of, look, 50% of the chromosomes are coming from this person. So optimizing those 50% are certainly going to help.
00:12:35
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But I would imagine there's also something to getting closer of, hey, we're working on this together. We're both invested that has this ancillary benefit that i imagine would be very hard to parse out.
00:12:47
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Yeah,
Men as Co-Parents from Day Zero
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we always say that our weenatal dads are going to be the best dads because they're involved in like co-parenting really from day zero.
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They're so invested together. And I think, you know, ah a lot of what we hear from our community and our customers is that Men do want to participate in the fertility equation. A lot of times, like they want to do something, but they don't know what to do. And so like having them in, you know, giving them the tools, like basically low hanging fruit is having them take a prenatal, but also giving them like the guidelines of what they could do, what they should remove, what should they add,
00:13:33
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really empowers them to be part of it and creates like a better relationship dynamic. I completely agree with you. yeah I want to touch on something because you equated it to the preparation and the work of preparing for a marathon.
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And there's one side that hears that says, well, why should it be so much work? There's nothing more natural in the world than creating more life. That's how we got here. That's how everybody who's ever born got here and will continue to get here.
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The flip side of that, I think about exercise or nutrition and say, well, Well, why do you have to go to the gym to exercise? Like it should just be natural. Yeah. Well, we weren't sitting at desk. Chairs are kind of a new invention. We used to be out having to hunt our food. It was very different nutrition.
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We didn't have Oreos. We didn't have white bread, right? Like you went and had to pick fruits and vegetables and find animals to eat. And so what feels natural isn't natural in the environment we've created. And so you have to be more thoughtful. is that what you see in this space?
Modern Lifestyle vs Natural Reproduction
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um You know, I come from parents and grandparents who are like, why do you need a supplement? Like they're used to getting all their nutrients from food, but like, it's not the same. our Our soils are depleted. And the analogy I love the most is that i eating ah an orange in our grandparents' generation is equivalent to eight oranges today. So even if we're eating, our full-time job is eating healthy, eating organic, eating clean, eating a Mediterranean diet, which has proven to be one of the you know healthiest, especially in fertility times.
00:15:04
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It's impossible to get the nutrients that we need from food. And that's why supplementation now, like your point, we're not sitting at desk, we're not, we're indoors, you know, majority of our day, our lifestyles are not what they once were. And so while it, yes, it is the most natural thing to recreate and make babies in this beautiful miracle.
00:15:24
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Our lives have so quickly progressed in the past 50 years and our food system and our air quality. I mean, we can really rattle off the reasons, but for all these reasons and more, we have to treat it differently. Also, another big thing, we're all having kids later in life where women are entering the workforce. It's amazing. Like we're so grateful for these things. Right. And being able to. But all of these factors combined make it multifaceted of the why. Right.
00:15:50
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Yeah, and I think there's like from a high level, there's really like a mismatch between our environment and our bodies. Yes, our bodies were made to reproduce.
00:16:02
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If you think about like, if you're trying to use the software of an old iPhone on like a new iPhone, it's just like not going to work. There's like you're asking it to do too many things. And so in the case of fertility, there's just like so much going on and really like there are three major drivers, but there's the toxic environment that we're living in where like you could argue there's not much you could do about it, but there is, you know, like, and we could talk about those.
00:16:32
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There's the lack of movement and the nutrient depleted diet that Vita talked about. And you talked about, you know, just as far as like, we have to go to the gym because, you know, we're sitting 92% of the day.
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And then there's like this sleep and
Enhancing Fertility: Blockers and Boosters
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stress. I mean, and the sleep is not going to go away. the The stress is not going to go away. So how can we combat what what's going on to like block our fertility? And it's really like we talk about it from ah high level. Let's remove these fertility blockers and adopt fertility boosters. And it's not to say that we're ever going to live in like a sterile, clean and environment that's like perfect. but there's just and And we also don't want people to like obsess about it because that's also like not the best thing. But can you get clean water and clean air? like Is there a way to like filter the air in your home?
00:17:28
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Can you switch to non-toxic products? Can you ah reduce the toxic behaviors like smoking, binge drinking, vaping, certain things that are so normalized in today's society. i don't know, like especially here in Los Angeles, it's like legal. So it's normalized. But these have real epigenetic effects on the next generation.
00:17:52
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And then it's like from the flip side, what are things that boost fertility? eating real food, prioritizing protein and healthy fats and leafy greens and colorful vegetables, moving your body. And if you can't get to the gym, you know, prioritizing walking like we oftentimes do like walking meetings, prioritizing sleep, all of those things. And we actually have a ah We call it a preconception trimester zero guide on our website.
Family Health Practices
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If you go to weenadal.com slash guide and it's for the couple, because again, if one person is doing this and then the other 50% the DNA is not doing this, then it's not really going to matter.
00:18:36
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And we always say that by doing these things, you're also setting the foundation and in your home for like a beautiful, beautiful, pure baby, right? This is what you want in your house. You don't want to like buy, I always laugh when I look at um baby registries and I see like a non-toxic um laundry detergent, like for the baby, but like you're using tide. i mean, it's like, we could smell the tide from like, you know, so like everybody should be on the same plan and the way you treat the baby is the way you should treat yourself.
00:19:13
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I want to go back to the the nutrients and how different for the men's prenatal versus the women's. I mean, what is it folic acid? Where are the big discrepancies for what one person needs versus the other?
Men's Prenatal Supplements
00:19:26
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Yeah. So like the foundation of the men's prenatal is antioxidants, really. And the cool thing about sperm and why I talk about sperm literally twenty four seven because sperm are constantly regenerating. produce 1500 sperm a second.
00:19:48
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And so if you do the math, that's like millions of sperm per day. And what's cool about that is because they're constantly regenerating, you can really impact the quality and the count of that sperm.
00:20:03
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if you are inputting the right lifestyle factors. So antioxidants being the foundation of yeah ah men's prenatal, the reason for that is because the antioxidants combat the oxidative stress that can influence sperm to be oxidized or you have DNA damage and all sorts of things like that. So From a high level, CoQ10 in the right doses, NAC, vitamin C, vitamin A, zinc, all of those things are shown to drastically improve sperm quality in three months. So we always say that like the sperm that you have today was essentially created three months ago, which is why we always talk about the...
00:20:54
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window of time, this trimester window of time, which is this golden opportunity that you can really impact your child's health is trimester is three months. is And so going back to our stories,
00:21:10
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I could have had this narrative in my head of like, I'm 31, I'm old. Every month that I weigh, my eggs get older. But I shifted that narrative and said, I'm actually going to take three months to improve my health and my egg quality and have my partner improve his sperm quality.
00:21:30
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And then
Women's Health and Prenatal Supplements
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try. And when we, when we can see when I conceived Emma, I actually conceived on my first try at the age of 41. And so I think, you know, our big message with WeNatal is like, it's better to do things right. It's just going like, like her marathon example.
00:21:51
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It's better to train for the marathon and take that time than just put on your shoes and start running. Even though that's what a lot of people want to do. And I think on the women's side, there is this narrative of your your eggs. You're just stuck with the eggs that you're born with. And there's nothing you could do to improve your egg quality.
00:22:12
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And we beg to differ. There's so much that you could do because it takes 100 days for your eggs to mature. And those 100 days are when your eggs are most sensitive to the inputs from the environment.
00:22:25
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So in the women's prenatal, we have things like methylfolate. So that is folic acid that is bioavailable. so folate, um which everybody can utilize. We have high dose vitamin D because vitamin D is shown to impact pregnancy health, is shown to impact things like um preeclampsia, iron, which is super important for when you're pregnant. And then we also have another product called egg Quality Plus, which is a very specific
00:22:59
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product that improves mitochondrial health in the egg because we know that when the egg is maturing, if your mitochondria is old, it can cause issues with like the DNA and um the chromosomes. And so what we want to make sure is that we power that mitochondria um so that the eggs can split correctly as they mature.
00:23:25
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And any of these, I mean, when you describe what's in them and what they're doing and why you want to do it back to reproductive health is health. Are there any of these products that you say, hey, these are only for when you're conceiving or you say, hey, look, I feel better while I'm on these.
Prenatal Supplements: Ongoing Benefits
00:23:43
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I want to just stick with it. you know that like as we age, our mitochondria goes down. And so for me, I'm like not trying to conceive and I take quality plus because it's essentially mitochondrial support. It's CoQ10, NAC, alpha lipoic acid, L-carnitine. Like we all need these things in general.
00:24:04
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Our prenatal is like a multivitamin. But like let's call it on steroids. And it also has specific things that support baby's health. So like let's use choline as an example.
00:24:19
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Choline is a nutrient that's critical for baby brain development. But it also supports our own cognition. And there's some research that shows that like certain levels of choline can actually impact even IQ in babies.
00:24:34
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And so once in a blue moon, we'll hear from people like, oh, I eat a healthy diet. Like, I don't need a prenatal. There are actually nutrients that are critical for baby's health.
00:24:46
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And the other big thing we see and we hear from our, you know, over 30,000 people that we've helped up until now is that those who take a prenatal and invest in preconception actually have better outcomes postpartum.
00:25:04
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And the reason is because they are not depleted because the baby will take what they need out of your system. but You want to make sure that you build like a system and that you have all of those reserves so that the baby isn't depleting you of nutrients.
00:25:22
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And what ends up happening and what we hear a lot is like women that don't take a prenatal and are like left depleted will have like postpartum anxiety or will have postpartum depression. And once they get on a prenatal, because a prenatal is also a postnatal, that anxiety is gone.
00:25:42
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I'd be curious. I mean, this is another one that I have no idea how you do this study, but the separating out the biological benefits and impact from the psychological, just that internal locus of control of, Hey, there are things that I
Mind-Body Connection and Gratitude Practices
00:25:56
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am doing. I have done and can do that are helping me move forward.
00:26:00
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That just transforms how you see every day of your life. Yeah. To me, it's like an insurance policy. Like you just feel better knowing you have it. We can't prevent all outcomes. We can't like give you a hundred percent guarantee, but knowing you are putting your best foot forward and you are taking the best and the cleanest supplements and you are doing what's in your control should give you the ease of mind that kind of you're talking about. And yes, it would be a great study. I don't know how to do it. Yeah.
00:26:27
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It's so powerful. And I do think there's more and more about our mind and body coming together into the ease of the mind, knowing it's doing everything right. And it which is why on a completely separate topic, we so believe in gratitude and actually produce that we need a journal, which is mainly a gratitude journal, but one pu partners could do together.
00:26:46
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It has three chapters, it discusses questions that you can do together to prepare for the baby. It has mantras. It has a three minute a day, daily gratitude. And it's this stuff used to be like nice to have all that, but there's more and more research actually showing the fundamental changes that happen in your biochemistry.
00:27:05
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When we share gratitude, when we're happy, when we're at ease. And so it, to your point about like health and fertility being one-on-one, so is mind and body and they're all connected. And so treating one thing without the other is not as beneficial. Yeah.
00:27:19
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Yeah, we had a prior guest, Ben Azadi, his recent book, Metabolic Freedom, talked about vitamin G. And it was the biggest impact of everything else studied. Oh my God, love that. Practice of gratitude. Yeah.
00:27:30
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I'm curious, you talk about you continue to take these, even though you're not trying to get pregnant. How many, like what percent of your customers or clients, however you describe them,
Post-Conception Health Benefits
00:27:41
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continue? Because it I hear this, yeah I take it, I feel better.
00:27:45
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And it just seems like something you would want to kind of stick with. I don't know what would happen once you started pulling back. Well, it's so interesting because our men's prenatal is typically, you know, if the man does their part, they like should stop taking it when their partner conceives. But we hear from a ton of them that they keep using it as a multivitamin.
00:28:09
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And um we actually have a story of a customer named John who claims that we should put a warning label on our men's prenatal because he continued to take our men's prenatal. His wife was...
00:28:26
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um had just given birth to their first daughter and she was nursing her. And when she was three months, when their daughter was three months, she conceived their son, who was basically born the day after the daughter's first birthday.
00:28:43
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So he always jokes that we need to put a warning sign on WeNatal for him because he just takes it as a multivitamin. But um yeah, we hear from a lot of our customers that they just keep taking it because they feel great. And you know we talk a lot and advocate a lot for taking a prenatal as a postnatal because a lot of times when the baby is born...
00:29:06
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You forget you forget to take care of yourself. You're out of your prenatals and then, you know, you're just so focused on the baby. But it's so important. And especially i mean, especially for breastfeeding moms.
00:29:20
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But. It's critical for really anybody because those nutrients are there to replete you. We hear from a lot of customers that they have the best hair postpartum and they don't experience the the postpartum hair loss because they stuck on the prenatal.
00:29:37
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um So I think that's like a big PSA to your listeners too. Like a prenatal is for postpartum and stay on it for as long as possible, ah especially if you're breastfeeding.
00:29:48
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makes a lot of sense. So I think we can say if you're going to do one thing in this space for whether you're trying to conceive or you're just saying, hey, reproductive health, sexual health is health, that we need all amazing supplement, amazing products there.
Simple Health Changes for Impact
00:30:04
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What about if you had one behavioral change from everything you've seen? So you had the gratitude journal, you had getting certain toxins out or eating better, or moving or sleeping. It can can be overwhelming.
00:30:15
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For a lot of people. And so if we start to say, hey, here's one thing like that we see people are able to do. and once they see they're able to do it, they may build from there and may not. But this is the highest impact, easiest to do thing.
00:30:26
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Yeah, I would say we might be a bit biased, but obviously the supplement is so potent and pure and it's probably the lowest hanging fruit, right? It's easy for most people to take three supplements a day. Our men's is three and our women's is three. Three capsules. Three capsules. Yes, that's one. And literally it can be overwhelming. And we're also here to say like, you don't need to like throw out your entire home, your bathroom, your kitchen. Like the thought of that is like, I better not do nothing. I better not do anything because why where where do i even start?
00:30:56
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And I've had those feelings, but some great advice that we've been given and we're we're very passionate about was like, what, first of all, one thing at a time. So I agree. Even if you could just start with gratitude, it's free. You literally just start changing how you think and how you approach this, you know, stressful time or whatever you're going through.
00:31:12
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And then one thing at a time. So if you can get in a routine with the supplement, if you run out of a toxic product in your house, maybe it's cleaning stuff, maybe it's makeup, When you run out, get a cleaner version.
00:31:23
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When your Teflon pans are scratched beyond use, let's get a stainless steel one. You know like there's micro changes you could do. Each one of them adds up. And so when one thing in your house is done, runs out, can you just switch to a new one? But there's like walking more a day, getting more sunlight and maybe some gratitude is like a good foundation for anyone in any stage of life.
00:31:45
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Yeah. And I think, Andrew, to your point of like, it's also never too early
Early Reproductive Health and Non-Toxic Living
00:31:50
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to start. Like, even if you are not trying to conceive now, if you're not in a relationship, investing in your health can, and you know, make it so much easier once you get there.
00:32:02
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and ah And from my perspective, we have so many friends that are fertility doctors that, you know, they i call them like angels and they do miracle work for so many people. And I'm so grateful that I never needed to go down that route.
00:32:18
Speaker
But the reason that was for me is because I got into the functional medicine space when I was 30 years old and I was... improving my gut. I changed my diet. I was started to eat, you know, back then it was like this big, like paleo craze. And I, you know, I focused so much on like, you know, organic food when I can, I was, you know, focused on building muscle through CrossFit. That was like my path.
00:32:45
Speaker
I worked with a functional medicine doctor on healing my gut. So when the time came and when I had my first, I was, 39 years old. And then when I had my second, I was 42.
00:32:58
Speaker
And yes, I had a loss in between. And I had to kind of like tweak a few things and tweak a few things that my partner was doing. But that foundation was there. And so building your fertility starts way early than you think.
00:33:14
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And I actually was watching a video of somebody who was saying that like, From her perspective, trimester zero and preconception starts when you're born.
00:33:25
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so So even now, like we have girls and our older daughters are gutting. I mean, hers is seven, mine is nine. you know Making sure that you continue to do these things like eliminate those endocrine disrupting chemicals from your household. My girls put my makeup on all all the time. And thank God ah that it's not toxic because...
00:33:48
Speaker
They could just use my stuff and I have like no worries about it. So um focusing on hormonal health, like from a young age is super important as well. Yeah, absolutely agree. It's ah the old story of the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. the second best time is today. So yes, we should all start it at birth.
00:34:07
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If we hadn't, we can at least start
WeNatal Promotion and Thank You
00:34:09
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now. And, you know, Ronit and Vida, I can't thank you enough for the the work you're doing to make it easier for more of us to start now ah and to build that better future, not just for ourselves, but also future generations.
00:34:21
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Thank you. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you, Andrew. And can I just add one one more thing? Please. We have a code for your audience. Anybody who subscribes to WeNaddle with weenaddle.com slash Alive Lee gets a free magnesium. Our magnesium is, I would say, Vida says it's her like favorite child.
00:34:42
Speaker
um It's a magnesium that has four types of magnesium. mag and it focuses on healthy digestion, sleep, relaxation, all of the things that we've heard from our community that they have issues with when they're pregnant.
00:34:57
Speaker
um And so they would get a free magnesium valued at $35 when they subscribe to WeNatal with your link. Thank you so much. Yeah, I take magnesium, so I'm going to check it out. I love it. All right. Thank you. Thank you.
00:35:12
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Thank you for joining us on today's episode of the Home of Healthspan podcast. And remember, you can always find the products, practices, and routines mentioned by today's guests, as well as many other Healthspan role models on Alively.com.
00:35:25
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Enjoy a lively day.