Bone Broth: Eat This Super Food To Improve Your Fertility! | Portland Acupuncture Studio (2024)
Bone Broth: Eat This Super Food to Improve Your Fertility!
If you’ve been trying to get pregnant, chances are your acupuncturist has recommended that you drink one cup of bone broth daily to help build up your “kidney” function. You don’t know what that means, but you’ve bought several brands from the grocery store. If none of them is appetizing to drink on its own, don’t worry, we’ve got some ideas for you! It’s worth the effort, because bone broth is ultra-nourishing to your fertility. Read on to learn how to add this superfood into your daily nutrition plan and give your fertility a big boost.
The easiest way to incorporate bone broth daily is to drink it straight – maybe drink it in the morning for breakfast or a mid-morning snack. But if you don’t like the taste of the bone broth, you can add a little bouillon to the bone broth to make it more palatable.
You can also use bone broth in your cooking. Often, when a (savory) recipe calls for water to be added, you can substitute bone broth. You can cook your rice or pasta in bone broth, or you can braise your vegetables in bone broth. It makes a great base for soup or stew. If bone broth is too rich for a particular recipe, substitute part of the water with broth.
You can make your own bone broth with your left-over meat or poultry bones and vegetable scraps (soupy-vegetables like onions, celery, leeks, fennel, parsnips, carrots, potato peels, a few carrot tops, left over parsley, etc.). This gives you a lot more control over how your bone broth tastes, how salty it is, which herbs and spices are included. If you make a low-seasoning base broth, it’s very flexible for all the cooking applications mentioned above, and when you want to use it in a soup, you can add additional salt and seasonings. The recipe below is a bit complicated, but once you know how you like to make it, it’s quite easy.
Whenever you have leftover bones or vegetables, put them in the freezer in gallon-sized freezer bags. Make sure the bones are cool first so you don’t allow plastic chemicals to leech into your food. Collect about one gallon-sized freezer bag of vegetable matter and about a third of a gallon-size bag of bones. You can also buy broth bones at many grocery stores if you need to.
Add the vegetables and bones to a big soup pot with one gallon of water and 1-2 Tablespoons of vinegar. Optional: You can add a few pieces of kombu, a little salt, and 1-2 bay leaves.
Bring to a boil, then simmer on the stove for 24 hours, stirring occasionally. Or you can put all the ingredients into a pressure cooker on high pressure for two hours (natural release at the end). If using a pressure cooker, you may need to adjust the amounts, just keep the ratios: 1 part bones to 3 parts vegetable matter and 3 parts water.
Cool to the point that it’s easy to handle, then strain the broth through a sieve into a big mixing bowl (or another soup pot). The solids are compostable.
Put the broth into the fridge so the fat solidifies, then skim the fat off the surface. You can use the fat in recipes instead of oil or compost it. After skimming off the fat, freeze in small batches of 1-2 cups or giant ice cubes (I like the silicone ice cube containers with covers, then I just take out one ice cube every day).
Pro Tip: Dilute the broth when you’re ready to drink it with an equal part water. You can do this to your own taste. You can also add a little salt, to taste. It’s that easy. Enjoy this fertility superfood!
Bone broth not only supports the deeper aspects of our bodies, including fertility, but it also gets the immune system up and running, strengthening that outer, protective layer called “wei qi”, what Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners call the protective barrier that decides what to let in and out – kind ...
Bone broth is a powerful detoxifier, hormone balancer and anti-inflammatory agent. It can help to improve your fertility by giving your body the nutrients it needs to function optimally. If you are trying to conceive, I recommend trying Bluebird Provisions bone broth.
Bone broth is a good choice to include in your diet along with all the other foods that fight inflammation. Organic chicken or beef bone broths (or make your own) have many beneficial nutrients that will help improve bones and joints, along with all the other benefits.
"If you're trying to get the benefits of bone broth, it makes sense to eat a serving of it daily over the course of six to eight weeks to assess the benefits," Dr. Means says.
Dairy. It pays to bone up on dairy (milk, yogurt, and cheese) when you're trying to conceive. Adding dairy to your preconception diet is good not only for bone health but also — potentially — for your reproductive health. So drink that milk, spoon up that yogurt, sip that smoothie, nibble on that cheese.
It's clear that drinking bone broth first thing in the morning has many benefits, including sustained energy, healing and sealing your gut, providing a protein boost, mood-boosting effects and even less cravings.
While bone broth is generally considered safe to consume, there are some potential risks to be aware of. Lead contamination. Some studies show elevated levels of lead in bone broths, which can be harmful to health if consumed in large amounts. Bacterial contamination.
According to some studies, bone broth may be high in glutamate. Glutamate may cause adverse effects such as anxiety, restlessness, low energy, mental exhaustion, sleeplessness, and concentration problems, although there is no scientific evidence to prove this.
And with all those vitamins yet 0.0 grams of fat and only 55 calories, Freja vegan broth is perfect for a diet focused on nutrient-dense foods. While vegetable broth isn't high in carbs by any means, it does have a few more carbohydrates than bone broth, which is very low in carbs.
Swanson® Chicken Bone Broth is crafted from real chicken bones and the perfect mixture of vegetables and herbs. Elevate your dishes with the full-bodied flavor from naturally-occurring collagen protein* or heat and sip as a warm beverage as an alternative to other hot drinks.
The bone broth diet is a 21-day plan that involves eating Paleo for five days and fasting for two. During the five days of eating Paleo, you drink anywhere from one to three cups of bone broth. On the fasting days, you have three to six cups of bone broth.
Bone broth may help you lose belly fat because it helps you lose weight. However, it is almost impossible to spot reduce fat . Meaning you cannot specifically target the fat in a specific area to lose. Your body will lose it throughout your frame.
Taking collagen while trying to conceive can help ensure that your body has adequate levels of this essential protein, which can provide a solid foundation for fertility and a healthy pregnancy when the time comes. And when you are pregnant, it can continue to help support your body's physical changes.
Hydration and electrolytes: Bone broth is hydrating and packed with electrolytes, making it an excellent choice for maintaining fluid balance, especially during the increased hydration needs of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
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