NWP Episode 235: Kendra Tolbert RD/N on Enhancing Your Fertility with Yoga & Nutrition
Kendra Tolbert MS, RDN, CDN, LD, RYT, Cert AT is a registered dietitian nutritionist, registered yoga teacher, and certified aromatherapist specializing in PCOS, fertility, and PMS. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Howard University and her Master of Science in Nutrition and Public Health from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2017, She was awarded the Emerging Professional Award from the Women's Health Dietetic Practice Group.
Kendra has experience helping individuals, families, and communities make improvements to their wellbeing and quality of life by adopting healthier habits. Her areas of expertise include women's health, PCOS, fertility, mind-body practices, and community nutrition.
Kendra is passionate about helping women live fertile. To LIVE FERTILE is to live the most joyful, productive, and fruitful life you can by caring for your body, mind, and soul. Whether your goal is to have more energy, make peace with your body, or get pregnant, living F.E.R.T.I.L.E. can help you get there.
Enhancing your fertility isn’t something you do through force or trying to wrestle your body into submission. It’s something you set the stage for by supporting yourself with life-giving habits. Our bodies and fertility are beautifully complex, but supporting and enhancing our wellbeing and fertility is simple.
In this episode we discuss:
Kendra’s journey to becoming a registered dietitian, yoga teacher, aromatherapist andspecializing in PCOS and fertility, and starting Live Fertile.
Kendra’s passion for helping women who want to conceive (someday or today) preserve and optimize their fertility all without restrictive diets, exhausting exercise, and extreme measures.
Why extreme measures aren’t necessary for fertility, and may even inhibit it.
Why with PCOS, Kendra doesn’t counsel most women to diet or exercise excessively, and instead encourages gentle nutrition practices like using the plate method.
Types of behaviors that lead to long term health, happiness and happy hormones, including how yoga benefits your fertility and hormone balance.
Strategies to include in your life to either protect their fertility or conceive soon.
How Kendra practices wellness without obsession.
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