NOURISH, RESTORE, CONCEIVE : SCIENCE-BACKED PRECONCEPTION STRATEGIES WITH GUEST JACLYN DOWNS

About this episode

This episode explores how functional genomics can provide personalized insights into fertility challenges and preconception care.

Do your genes hold the missing piece to your fertility journey? In this eye-opening episode of The Pregnancy Process Podcast, functional nutrigenomics expert and Author Jaclyn Downs joins us to explore how your unique genetic blueprint can reveal answers when “doing all the right things” still hasn’t led to pregnancy. Jaclyn explains how functional genomics goes far beyond standard genetic testing, offering a deeply personalised approach to uncovering the root causes of unexplained infertility, hormone imbalances, and recurrent loss. We dive deep into the science of MTHFR and DHFR, unraveling the truth about folate metabolism and why the right form of folate matters for fertility. Jaclyn also shares how toxic exposures-from mould and mycotoxins to radon and everyday chemicals-can quietly undermine your reproductive health, and why addressing these hidden factors is crucial. You’ll learn how nutrient deficiencies, gut health, and chronic infections can create obstacles on your path to parenthood, and what practical steps you can take to overcome them. Throughout our conversation, Jaclyn emphasises the importance of preconception care and explains how functional genomics can help…

People in this episode

Host: Tammy Potter

Guest: Jaclyn Downs

Topics covered

• preconception strategies
• functional genomics
• fertility
• nutrient deficiencies
• reproductive health
• hormone imbalances

Keywords

• fertility journey
• genetic blueprint
• folate metabolism
• toxic exposures
• gut health
• chronic infections

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MTHFR, DHFR

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