Baby-prep is
a two person job.
Preconception nutrition bar for each of you. Same flavor, different ingredients.
His clock runs every 74 days.
Hers runs monthly.
Your bodies don't work on the same clock, so your nutrition shouldn't either. Here's what's happening for each of you, and why those nutrients made it into the bar.
74
days · for him
28
days · for her
For him · a 74-day cycle
Sperm remake themselves from scratch every 74 days. Zinc runs that rebuild, and selenium builds the protective sheath around each tail, which is what lets one swim in a straight line.
For her · roughly 28 days
An egg spends about three months maturing before its cycle. Folate builds the new cells that work takes, and vitamin E sits in the fats around the egg and takes the oxidative hit on its behalf.
The nutrition comes from the food itself, nothing dusted on afterwards.
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Pumpkin seeds
Him
Zinc
Zinc runs the whole 74-day rebuild, which is why it is the mineral most tied to how his half turns out.
Brazil nut
Him
Selenium
Selenium builds the protective sheath around each tail, which is what lets one swim in a straight line.
Wheat germ
Her
Folate
Folate in the form her body reaches for first, from the part of the grain everyone else mills out.
Almonds
Her
Vitamin E
Vitamin E sits in the fats inside her eggs, and takes the oxidative hit on their behalf.
Walnuts
Both
Omega-3 ALA
Omega-3s make the membrane around his sperm and her eggs.
A flexible one bends; a stiff one cannot.
A flexible one bends; a stiff one cannot.
Flaxseed
Both
Omega-3 · Lignans
Lignans help her clear the oestrogen she has finished with, which is how a cycle keeps its rhythm.
Chia seeds
Both
Magnesium · Fibre
Magnesium sits behind his testosterone and her cycle, and almost everyone runs a little short of it.
Sunflower seeds
Both
Copper
Copper is one of the trace minerals sperm need to move, and hers goes into building blood.
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