Liz Earle Podcast – Fertility & Acupuncture With Emma Cannon

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What led Emma to be a fertility expert in the beginning?

• How acupuncture can help during IVF and fertility more generally?

• The difference between fertile, infertile and sub fertile.

• Why is sub-fertility on the increase?

• What are the causes in failed ovulation? And why is it increasingly common in the 20s-30s due to extreme lifestyles of restricted eating, over exercise and over working?

• The importance of nutrition and fertility.

• Emma discusses her journey to and training in Chinese medicine, and diagnostics.

• What is the importance of gut health in fertility?

• Intermittent fasting and altering foods and individual diets.

• Why fertility is a peripheral need to the body, and what we can do to optimise it.

• How we can progress from a state of “flight or fight”, to “feed and greed”.

• Preserving fertility through cancer treatment, and how to help this.

• Support available for women going through peri-menopause and menopause.