00:00:00 So, so Jess is an Irish registered dietitian and she specializes in women's fertility health and supporting individuals relationship with food which I think is incredibly important. Willam nutrition, nutrition is average for a dietitian clinic that just runs supporting individuals and couples across the globe which is you know obviously a really good fit with
00:00:20 us because we've got global as well. Jess is passionate that food provides pleasure and supports us in living our lives to the fullest. We don't agree more with that, supporting you with practical evidence based We don't agree more with that, supporting you with practical evidence based advice for whatever journey you are on.
00:00:36 And now we have any further ado, over to you Jess. Thank you so much Vilar, I'll just share my screen and hopefully this will go smoothly and I'm just going to turn my camera off so you go, you go Jess, or do yourselves. Okay, just double check with that please. Okay, just double check with that please. Can you see that okay?
00:01:06 I can see it, yes. Go back to okay, I'll just move my tab across. Lovely, okay, so thank you so much again for the introduction. So as Pilar mentioned, I'm going to be talking to you all about how smart nutrition can help our fertility. So she's already introduced me very nicely, so my name is Jess Willow, I'm the owner of
00:01:26 Willow Nutrition. I'm an Irish or registered dietitian, a certified intuitive eating counselor I'm an Irish or registered dietitian, a certified intuitive eating counselor and fertility dietitian. I set up Willow Nutrition which is a virtual clinic back in 2019 alongside my clinical job. As many dietitians have done, I've worked in many different areas.
00:01:44 I've worked in for the past 14 years as a dietitian both in the UK and the NHS in acute and community posts. I've worked in the public health service in Ireland, private telehealth companies and private hospitals in Ireland and alongside running my own business. private hospitals in Ireland and alongside running my own business. So I've gained really vast experience in lots of different areas which I
00:02:05 absolutely love. I live just outside Dublin with my husband, our three year old son and our first born and our labradoodle dog called Tom. So that's just a little bit about me. So just going through kind of what we will cover. So we're going to go through a bit around understanding fertility and the impact of nutrition,
00:02:28 how to get started and I think it's really important that you can get started how to get started and I think it's really important that you can get started even if you're not trying to conceive and the earlier you give yourself the better the outcomes are. Even if you're not even thinking about babies in the near future, it might be longer down the line.
00:02:45 Again, we can start thinking about our reproductive health now. We'll look about the foundations of our fertility boosting diet. Lifestyle factors impacting fertility, how to practically implement fertility friendly nutrition and lifestyle practices. We'll touch a little bit about supplements and then just cover some take home We'll touch a little bit about supplements and then just cover some take home messages.
00:03:05 So when we're looking at fertility and wellness, I mean you could talk for hours and hours about this. But we know that overall women are having babies later in life. The average age in Ireland is 33 years of a woman having her first child. And when we look at Europe as a whole, it's roughly around 29 years. We're seeing roughly one in six couples which is about 17.5% of the population, We're seeing roughly one in six couples which is about 17.5% of the population,
00:03:30 of the adult population, and experiencing infertility. What infertility is defined as is a couple actively trying to conceive for 12 months or longer and not being able to achieve pregnancy. Or for couples who are 35 years and older, the woman is 35 years or older, it's looking at around six months of actively trying to conceive.
00:03:55 Female fertility contributes to only 35% of overall infertility cases despite, Female fertility contributes to only 35% of overall infertility cases despite, unfortunately, it kind of being put on the female in a lot of cases. It's 35%. 20% of cases are related to both the woman and the man. And 30% involve problems only on the part of the man, whereas 15% of infertility cases
00:04:17 remain unexplained. So we just don't know what the issue is. Alongside women having babies later in life, we have seen and there was research out in the last couple of years around this. That sperm counts around the world have halved over the past 50 years with that That sperm counts around the world have halved over the past 50 years with that pace of
00:04:34 decline more than doubling since 2000, so in the last 25 years. So we're seeing roughly one in six couples worldwide experiencing infertility. That could certainly increase with the reducing sperm counts and women choosing to have babies later in life. So when we look at some of the kind of importance of the research around the importance of diet and fertility.
00:04:58 The research is constantly building and we're learning more about how important
