Dr. Laura Brayton is a holistic chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner with more than 20 years of experience helping women optimize fertility, pregnancy, and maternal health through root-cause medicine and holistic lifestyle practices. She's the host of the Well-Adjusted Mama podcast and creator of the documentary Conscious Conception: An Empowered Pregnancy + Birthing Story.

In this episode, we talk about what conscious conception actually means and why it starts well before a positive pregnancy test. Dr. Brayton breaks down how the nervous system affects fertility, why stress can signal the body that it isn't safe to conceive, and how epigenetics means both partners' health, not just the mother's, shapes the pregnancy to come. She also gets into the toxin load hiding in everyday products, the gut-fertility connection, and why she has couples do a preconception cleanse together.

In this episode, we cover:

  • What conscious conception means, and why it's relevant even if you're years away from trying
  • How a stressed, sympathetic nervous system can work against fertility and conception
  • Why 50 percent of baby's genetics and toxin exposure come from the partner, and what that means for preconception prep
  • The environmental toxins worth addressing first, and where to find better product alternatives
  • How gut health and food sensitivities tie into hormone balance and fertility
  • Practical ways to get a reluctant partner on board with preconception changes

Connect with Dr. Brayton at https://www.drlaurabrayton.com or on Instagram at @drlaurabrayton. You can also listen to Well-Adjusted Mama!

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