Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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I was wondering if any people had fertility problems and got pregnant after doing paleo. If you did, how long did it take after starting the diet?

flag	asked Dec 11 2010 at 4:30 Tati 141●2●5

Tim Rangitsch · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-11 18:35:01Z UTC

Tati, my wife and I managed to get a perfect little caveman! Less than a year after I got healthy on paleo-modeled nutrition and lifestyle we ended a 17 year streak of infertility. NOT any sort of scientific method to any of this, but as I ate clean paleo, my wife was dragged into fewer grains, less sugar, less veggie/seed oils etc. She is not on board 100%, but I suspect my dietary changes that rubbed off on her had to help the matter.

daidy · Answer 2 · 2011-01-01 18:45:48Z UTC

I have PCOS. I was diagnosed in May 2010 and put on Metformin and my OBGYN recommended what basically turned out to be a Paleo-style diet. I had immediate fertility improvements. I don't know what to attribute to the medication and what to the diet, but I'd been charting my BBT to track ovulation for over 6 months and had not ovulated since going off birth control 9 months before. My next full cycle after starting Paleo, I started ovulating on my own. I've started settling down into 28-30 day ovulatory cycles after spending most my life with wildly unpredictable, annovulatory cycles.

Jamie · Answer 3 · 2010-12-11 04:57:54Z UTC

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Also, check out naturallyknockedup.com for a paleo friendly website to fertility.

answered Dec 11 2010 at 4:57

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I will check this website for sure! Thank you! – Tati Dec 11 2010 at 20:59

Kitzu · Answer 4 · 2010-12-31 06:17:56Z UTC

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I'm sorry I don't have any links right now, but sweet potatoes, leafy greens and full fat dairy all seem to help fertility. Chinese medicine increase eggs, organ meats and beef. good luck!

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JakeA · Answer 5 · 2010-12-11 14:29:38Z UTC

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Robb Wolf has commented in many podcasts that paleo eaters in his gym seem to be getting pregnant easily. You should be better off for sure. If you still have problems then talking to the doc is probably a good choice if you haven't done so already.

answered Dec 11 2010 at 14:29

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Yes, that's because of his book that we started eating paleo but there is something about hearing from other people that had the first hand experience. We did go to the doctor, and reproductive clinic but we took a break this summer because of the stress it brings and after the summer while reassessing, we decided to get healthier before restarting. – Tati Dec 11 2010 at 21:01

Eva · Answer 6 · 2010-12-11 04:50:06Z UTC

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If I remember correctly, there is at least one fertility doctor that uses paleo eating as one of his first suggested lines of attack on fertility problems. So the idea is certainly plausable.

answered Dec 11 2010 at 4:50

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Ambimorph · Answer 7 · 2010-12-11 19:10:15Z UTC

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A low carb diet can help fertility: Less sugar, more kids.

answered Dec 11 2010 at 19:10

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Thank you, I did watch this video before. It's great but I wanted to hear about people for whom it worked first hand. :-) – Tati Dec 11 2010 at 21:02

Happy Now · Answer 8 · 2011-07-06 01:48:49Z UTC

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It took exactly 8 months after starting paleo to get knocked up. I think extra sun from a trip to Mexico, and the extra vitamin A my naturopath recommended were what finally did it.

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JWK · Answer 9 · 2013-01-27 16:33:50Z UTC

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Tati- did you have any luck. I do not ovulate regular, eat pretty much other than cheese which I have daily, but I am hesitate to go on Clomid, which the doctor has suggested. Fingers crossed you had success!!! JWK

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Mel · Answer 10 · 2013-04-23 23:34:47Z UTC

Me and my husband tried for ten years I have never taken birth control and have seen fertility drs even took fertility drug clomid I have never had a positive pregnancy test we went paleo in the summer of 2012 and am currently pregnant with a due date of oct 2013

Jassie · Answer 11 · 2013-04-24 01:05:27Z UTC

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First pregnancy took over a year to conceive - ate vegetarian diet. 2nd time pregnant 1st try - ate low carb paleo.

Not sure if it's purely coz of diet, but I feel a lot better 2nd time (I'm 10 weeks pregnant right now).

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Janknitz · Answer 12 · 2013-04-24 01:23:37Z UTC

A wonderful endocrinologist told me to do a low carb diet (Protein Power) for PCOS I had my first ovulatory period ever (!) without fertility drugs within 30 days and conceived 6 months later. This was before Paleo was around as a dietary concept.

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