Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson speaks with Michelle Oravitz on acupuncture and infertility care. Michelle Oravitz, began her career as an architect upon graduating from Philadelphia University. After many years of experiencing missed periods and enduring stress at her high demand job in NYC, she decided to go to an acupuncturist named Dr. Li who immediately regulated her cycle. What she didn’t realize was that her life would take a drastic...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia give a life update about where they are at with their trying to conceive journey.  This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you have been following them throughout the years through this podcast or on social media. Caitlin and Sophia engage in an in-depth discussion on PCOS, weight loss, working out, managing stress and more! This is part two of a two part series where they will continue...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia give a life update which ends in a new fertility diagnosis for one of them! This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you have been following them throughout the years through this podcast or on social media. Caitlin and Sophia engage in an in-depth discussion on PCOS, endometriosis, managing stress, IBS, food intolerances and more.  This is part one of a two part series where they will...

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Nicki L. on working with Caitlin to manage her PCOS symptoms. Nicki is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. A huge piece to her puzzle was managing her blood sugar, taking mindful walks to lower stress and working with Caitlin! Nicki's fertility story is unique because she was diagnosed with PCOS at 15. She is thankful to have been diagnosed...

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Sophia Pavia speaks with Macy Coleman on detoxing your body from parasites.  Macy has been a registered dietitian for 5 years and specializes in many different populations, most recently women’s health and pediatrics. She is dedicated to functional + integrative nutrition which means she focus on the whole body and root causes rather than just covering up symptoms⁣⁣. This episode has useful information on trying to conceive,...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson speaks with Sophia Gushee.  Sophia is known as the Healthy home guru" and "clean-living guru" and has been described by Well+Good, the two-time Webby Award-winning website (The New York Times has described the Webby Award as the "Internet's highest honor").  With a successful former career in investment management, Sophia has become sought after for her expertise on practical nontoxic living. Sophia is a...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Gary Levy. Dr. Gary Levy is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist and is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of FertilityCloud, America's first and only comprehensive, fertility, telemedicine platform. Through FertilityCloud all evaluation and treatment for fertility can be done from the comfort of your home. Dr. Levy's has a primary focus on...

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Valerie Eugenio on working with Caitlin to conceive her daughter. Valerie is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. After battling with painful periods she went on birth control which made her have a cycle every few months. After getting off of birth control she noticed her periods were not coming so often and showing up about every 60 days....

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia speak with Catherine Staffieri about the importance of blood sugar balance when trying to conceive.  Catherine is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist currently working as a Nutrition Manager at Nutrisense, one of the fastest growing healthtech start-ups aimed to help anyone discover and reach their health potential. Catherine has counseled thousands of clients on their glucose scores reviewing over 750,000...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia speak about progesterone and why Sophia made the switch to specialize in this subject when helping women who are trying to conceive.  This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are wanting to start from scratch and learn about all things progesterone as well as how to talk to your doctor if you think you might need some help making enough progesterone to get pregnant. Caitlin and Sophia...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Paulette Kamenecka. Paulette is an economist, a writer and a podcaster interested in women's health. She's written about the science of autoimmunity, what we currently know about different aspects of the immune system, and the immune system in pregnancy. Her podcast, What you Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth focuses on the difference between what women expected in...

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Kaile Garcia on working with Caitlin to conceive her daughter. Kaile is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. After suspecting PCOS she took Caitlin's course which helped her better understand her body, fertility and her hormones. In this episode, Kaile talks about how important it was to cut out coffee, alcohol and other bad habits to help...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Ashton Koehlmoos. Ashton is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. She is a fitness educator supporting all women in the ttc, pregnancy and postpartum stages.  She now educates and help you find the inner strength your body posses through your breath & inner core unit to create support and stability through all chapters of motherhood. She...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Hannah Bowers. Hannah was first diagnosed with PCOS after she was newly married and looking at starting to plan for a family with her husband.  What began as a personal journey to motherhood became a deep passion for sharing reliable resources for every stage of the journey. Now, she is dedicated to taking what she has learned and sharing the most useful information so that others...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Caitlin Dillon. This is an update episode! We had Caitlin Dillon on during season two to talk about her fertility journey. She took our advice and it led her to getting further tests done along with working with a great medical team. Now, Dillon is more than halfway through her pregnancy and speaks about how her faith has allowed herself and her battles the struggles of infertility...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Allison Tartari. Allison found her way to midwifery care through the pregnancy and birth of her fourth child. She knew she wanted to help support women during pregnancy, and avoid the unnecessary interventions she encountered with her other children. She became passionate about educating families on other, safer options for birth. She became a D.O.N.A trained doula and followed that...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Gary Levy is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist Dr. Levy is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of FertilityCloud, America's first and only comprehensive, fertility, telemedicine platform. Through FertilityCloud all evaluation and treatment for fertility can be done from the comfort of your home. Dr. Levy's has a primary focus on treatment...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Ryan Woodbury, the co-founder of Needed the Prenatal Vitamin Company, who dedicates her work to helping women get the vitamins they need for preconception, pregnancy and postpartum.  Caitlin, Sophia and Ryan speak about the importance of taking a quality prenatal vitamin, ways prenatal vitamins differ and why you should speak with a trying to conceive dietitian rather than your...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Jordi, a Pediatric Naturopathic Medical Doctor based in San Diego, CA with a passion for growing healthy humans from before birth through childhood. Dr. Jordi serves patients throughout California and specialize in Pediatrics at Nourish Medical Center. Throughout her medical career, she worked extensively with autoimmune and chronic disease patients and discovered that many...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Leah Gordon, who works in educating, supporting, and bringing healing to women along their womanhood journeys as they prepare for and move toward motherhood. Leah and her husband always knew they wanted to expand their family and become parents. Into their trying to conceive journey they had to overcome many obstacles. Through their journey Leah found out her husband had a very...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Sarah Jeltema, an intrepid traveler and spirits educator with a passion for writing and project management who loves teaching others and improving efficiency.  Sarah founded WhiskyNomad LLC and uses social media to educate and expose enthusiasts to alcohol from around the world. She is also the President of Women Who Whiskey San Diego.  Sarah speaks about her infertility...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Sarah Jeltema, an intrepid traveler and spirits educator with a passion for writing and project management who loves teaching others and improving efficiency.  Sarah founded WhiskyNomad LLC and uses social media to educate and expose enthusiasts to alcohol from around the world. She is also the President of Women Who Whiskey San Diego.  Sarah speaks about her infertility...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson speaks with Jennifer Hintzshe, founder and CEO of Pherdal, the only sterile, FDA-cleared at home insemination kit.  Jennifer speaks about her infertility journey and being diagnosed with unexplained infertility. This diagnosis lit a fire within her to try and understand why she was struggling to get pregnant which helped her come up with her at-home insemination kit.  Jennifer and Caitlin have an in-depth...