Office Hours: Preparing Your Body for Pregnancy — Fertility, Nutrition & Hormones

Welcome to Office Hours. This is our dedicated one-on-one space to go deeper, get clearer, and explore what truly moves the needle for your health. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and each week we're going to pull back the curtain and share the insights, the research, the lessons that don't always make it into our conversations with guests.

Because at the end of the day, you are the CEO of your own health. And for many of you, your family's health too. And you might not feel it all the time, but you have far more power and agency than you realize. I'm glad you're here. Today we're diving into one of the most personal and uh the most emotionally charged topics I get asked about.

fertility. Now, so many of you have written in with questions about unexplained infertility, irregular or missing menstrual cycles, hormone imbalances, PCOS, endometriosis, miscarriages, and what you can actually do to prepare your body for conception. Now these questions are deeply real, and they often come with frustration, confusion, and heartbreak, especially when the answers feel limited or incomplete. And yet what I want you to know is this.

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