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Fertility & Wellness Blog
Welcome to Sally Varley’s Fertility & Wellness Blog — holistic, science-informed support on your journey to conception and beyond. Specialist acupuncture insights, nutritional guidance, lifestyle need-to-knows and real client stories to help you understand your body, balance your hormones and create optimal conditions for fertility.
How to enhance male fertility
In my experience of working with heterosexual couples who are TTC, it’s nearly always the woman who’s putting in all the dietary and lifestyle legwork, taking supplements, cutting out alcohol and researching how to…
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Water – Eau so good for you!
Are you drinking enough lovely, filtered water every day? In my experience, most of us are not and we’re dehydrated which makes us: tired wrinkly constipated lacking energy holding onto excess weight brain fogged…
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Having a baby over 40…
If this is something you’re thinking about and you’re 40+, I firstly want to say: Don’t assume that you’re too old because biological and chronological are not the same! There are lots of women who are over 35 (the…
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The 4 essential steps to fertility success
Are you longing to be a mum or struggling to have a sibling for the child(ren) you’ve already got? Do you feel like you’re not making any progress and starting to lose a bit of faith? Well, I’m here to let you know…
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Your fertility, your weight & PCOS. 3 tips for success
If you’ve been TTC for some time, one of the first areas to address is your weight because, unfortunately having a too-high BMI goes hand in hand with fertility-related problems. The good news is that overweight…
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Is your lifestyle wrecking your fertility?
I was chatting to a woman recently who’s been TTC for 2.5 years. She and her partner are both in their late 30s and she told me that he won’t do anything to improve his health. His view is that “if it’s going to…
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Slow down when you eat to boost your fertility
Slow down and relax when you eat. Give gratitude for your food and really let yourself enjoy each meal. I know it’s so simple, but I can’t emphasize it enough. When your digestive system is relaxed you actually get…
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Having a baby via sperm donor & IVF: Anna’s story.
When Anna found herself single again in her late thirties and longing to have a child, she took the brave decision to go it alone using a sperm donor. After a couple of failed IUI attempts, she was finally successful…
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Is Spring giving you a headache?
Is Spring giving you a headache? Here’s why. Have you been feeling irritable, frustrated, lethargic and tired lately? Or maybe you’re suffering from muscles aches and pains, headaches, migraines and high blood…
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How can you help me boost my fertility when it’s all done online
How can you help me boost my fertility when it’s all done online? Don’t you need to stick needles in me or something? Here’s the thing – so much of what we work on is actually nothing to do with how many healthy eggs…
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Super healthy Spinach & Leek Soup recipe (takes 12 mins to make)
I’m sure that most of you are exactly like me – wanting to eat healthily but pushed for time and often too tired after the demands of the day to cook something ‘proper’. I definitely have days when it feels like too…
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7 Tips for Healthy, Happy Hormones
One of my most over-used phrases is “Problem periods are very common but they’re not ‘normal’” I say it because when we have healthy, balanced hormones we don’t suffer from debilitating problems with our menstrual…
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How to stop being so hard on yourself
If you’re into personal development, business coaching or sports performance, you’ll know that many of life’s successes come down to having the right mindset. This is why I place a lot of emphasis on cultivating a…
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Eat parsley
The liver plays a really important role in balancing hormone levels in the body and parsley can help remove harmful toxins and things that disrupt our hormonal balance. You can add fresh parsley to soups, stews and…
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Staying Hydrated
When you’re TTC, staying hydrated is REALLY important.⠀ Dehydration is one of the biggest causes of unhealthy periods and non-fertile cervical mucus- which is pretty much like nutrient-rich compost for your little…
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Breakfast like a Queen to improve your menstrual cycle and enhance your fertility!
Something I regularly emphasise to my clients is the importance of nourishing your digestive energy. In Chinese Medicine, the morning is when this digestive ‘fire’ is at it’s peak and if you don’t eat a healthy…
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Spoiler alert- Toxins
Spoiler alert – I’m about to say the heavily overused T word… TOXINS. Don’t roll your eyes! Those suckers can seriously disrupt your hormones making it much harder for you to get pregnant. They’re in so many things…
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Could a ‘blood deficiency’ be stopping you from conceiving?
Hands up if you’ve ever suffered from low energy, fatigue and easy bruising? These can all be signs of what we call Blood Deficiency in Chinese Medicine. It doesn’t mean you don’t have enough blood but that the…
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