Your Thoughts Are Programming Your Baby's DNA ft. Dr. Elizabeth Wade | Ep. 51

About this episode

Dr. Elizabeth Wade discusses how thoughts influence fertility and genetic inheritance.

What if the biggest threat to your fertility isn't your age, your hormones, or your egg quality — but your thoughts? This week, I sat down with Dr. Elizabeth Wade, a naturopathic fertility and hormone specialist who has built her practice around one radical idea: you cannot biohack your way out of an unhealed inner world. Elizabeth didn't arrive at this from a textbook. She was doing everything right — organic food, filtered water, air purifiers in every room — and still felt something was deeply, quietly wrong. After a separation, a mold crisis, a lost nanny, and a grief she was barely holding, everything collapsed at once. And in that collapse, she found the thread her patients kept pulling on too. Here's what blew my mind: she told me the number one influence on what genes you pass to your children isn't your supplements or your diet. It's your thoughts. Your epigenetic expression — what your kids inherit — is shaped by how you perceive the world right now. She dropped another bomb: the "infertility" label is applied to couples who haven't conceived in a year, but only about 1–2% of people are truly sterile. That word is doing enormous psychological damage. And…

People in this episode

Host: Tracy Duhs

Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Wade

Topics covered

• fertility
• epigenetics
• mental health
• naturopathy
• hormones

Keywords

• fertility
• thoughts
• epigenetics
• hormones
• naturopathic

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