- Oct 15, 2025
The Missing First Step in Women's Health
- Elizabeth Stewart
If you’ve ever walked into a doctor’s office with fatigue, irregular cycles, anxiety, or trouble conceiving, only to walk out with maybe prescription or referral but no real answers, you’re not alone.
For many women, especially those trying to conceive or navigating postpartum, the current healthcare model likes to jumps to “fixing” symptoms before looking deeper. And while there’s a time and place for medical treatment (and I’m grateful for it!), there’s also tremendous value in what comes before that point... foundational care.
The Problem Isn’t Just “In Your Head”
When you’re anxious, exhausted, or struggling with fertility, it’s easy to feel like your body is broken. But the truth is your body is communicating.
It’s saying, “Hey, I’m running low. I need support.”
And that support sometimes looks less like another test or medication, and more like:
Balancing blood sugar with real meals, not quick snacks
Replenishing key minerals that drive hormone balance and calm the nervous system
Building meals with enough protein, fat, and fiber to stabilize energy and mood
Supporting stress recovery through rest and movement, not just pushing harder
These aren’t small things; they’re foundations. And just like a house, your health can’t be built without a strong foundation.
Before Fertility Treatments, You Have to Build the Soil
Before planting a seed, you tend the soil. Hormones and fertility are no different.
If your body is depleted, inflamed, or under chronic stress, no amount of medical intervention can override the body’s basic need for nourishment and stability.
Foundational nutrition through food, minerals, and lifestyle rhythms, helps your body work with you. Your hormones, nervous system, and digestion, the whole gambit.
Then if you still need additional medical support or fertility treatment, your body is far more prepared to receive it.
Foundations and Medicine Can Work Together
This isn’t about choosing one path or the other. It’s about order.
When we support the body first through nourishment, rest, and lifestyle, the need for medical intervention can decrease. And if it doesn’t, those tools can then be used more effectively, because your body is actually equipped to respond.
Whether you’re navigating fertility challenges, anxiety, or postpartum exhaustion, remember:
You’re not broken.
You just need to start from the ground up.
You deserve better than being dismissed or rushed into a diagnosis or treatment you aren't ready for. You deserve care that restores you from the inside out.