Detox for Fertility
optimize your fertility
easy ways to prepare for pregnancy, IVF, egg freezing
The Problem
Since World War II, more than 82,000 chemicals have been introduced into American commerce. Each year, thousands of new chemicals are introduced and the production volume is millions of pounds per some chemicals. And less than 1% are tested for safety.
Increasingly, these toxic exposures are recognized as contributors to things such as hormone disruption, autoimmune issues, cancer, infertility, birth defects, and fetal origins of adult diseases. The data continues to attract further study—and concern—on how these toxic exposures are affecting our brains, nervous systems, hearts, endocrine systems, immune systems, and reproductive health. In the meantime, governments and experts worldwide and within the US are recommending a precautionary approach towards toxic exposures.
Since physicians are often not trained to consider how toxic exposures may influence the patient, patients have a hard time getting informed and learning how to reduce their avoidable toxic exposures.
The Solution
Reducing your toxic exposures for a healthier lifestyle can feel overwhelming. What is worth your time and money? How can we enjoy a practical, modern life while protecting our bodies, families, and health? Designed by author and mom of three Sophia Ruan Gushee, Ruan Living offers two solutions to simplify nontoxic living for you:
D-Tox Academy
- Membership-based library of resources to guide you through detoxing each area of your home, on your own time!
- Personalized Q&A with Nontoxic Lifestyle Expert Sophia Ruan Gushee through our private, members-only community forum, Healing Space
- Bonus access to several workshops, masterclasses, and more. Constantly updated with fresh content!
Access membership for just $25/month: D-TOX ACADEMY.
40-Day Home Detox
- Jumpstart your new nontoxic lifestyle with this all-encompassing program. In 40 days (with access for a full year after!), learn to identify, reduce, and replace hidden toxins that secretly sabotage your health and fertility in your home.
- Move through three phases: Discover. Detox, and Design, as you re-build your environment into a nontoxic oasis. Participants are instilled with a common-sense approach to avoiding toxic exposures, so you can shop with confidence for your practical nontoxic lifestyle!
- Discounted one-on-one sessions with Sophia to address more specific questions or in-depth home detoxing.
Program starts at just $250: 40-DAY HOME DETOX.
Timing is Everything
The risks from our toxic exposures increase during certain stages of our lives. Our most vulnerable time is during our prenatal period. So, if you're pregnant—or looking forward to being pregnant (detoxing before conception is ideal)—then seriously consider RID.
Generally, the younger the life, the more important it is to be conservative about toxic exposures. Other key times are around stages of significant changes in human development—like prenatally, postnatally, during puberty, and around menopause. While a RID that starts before you and your partner begin trying to conceive is ideal for your future children, it's never too late to benefit from a less toxic lifestyle!
Ruan Living Offerings guide you through your detox journey.
In an October 2013 statement by American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Society for Reproductive Medicine Practice Committee, and The University of California, San Francisco Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. Click on the quote above to read the statement.
Invest in Your Children’s Lifelong Health
The Fetal Origins of Adult Disease (FOAD) is a hypothesis made popular by the late Dr. David Barker circa 1994. FOAD suggests that our prenatal experience may contribute to health issues—from birth defects to chronic adult diseases.
Examples of outcomes that scientists have been studying for possible fetal origins include:
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birth defects (including to the male and female reproductive system)
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cardiovascular disease
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cognitive impairments
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diabetes
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low birth weight
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obesity
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mental health
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and more
Our toxic exposures—chemicals, heavy metals, and EMFs—from our environment and lifestyles have changed dramatically since World War 2. Consequently, our toxic exposures have become an increasingly influential—and overlooked—pillar of health. However, authorities have been updating their recommendations as science has been proving the importance of reducing our toxic exposures.
Click to the read the statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Benefits of a Preconception, Fertility, or Pregnancy Detox
Your detox will optimize* factors for:
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fecundity (or, the biological capacity to reproduce by a male or female)
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a successful conception—from conceiving naturally to assisted reproductive technology (ART)
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the healthiest pregnancy outcome* that is possible for you
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reduced body burden
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your optimal health and well-being
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improved sperm quality
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healthier breastmilk
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the optimal* biological foundation of your future children!
The sooner you and your partner start detoxing your routines, habits, and environment of toxic exposures, the more your children (and YOU!) will benefit.
American Physiological Society, 2016. Click on the quote above to read the article.
Benefits of a Preconception, Fertility, or Pregnancy Detox
Your detox will optimize* factors for:
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fecundity (or, the biological capacity to reproduce by a male or female)
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a successful conception—from conceiving naturally to assisted reproductive technology (ART)
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the healthiest pregnancy outcome* that is possible for you
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reduced body burden
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your optimal health and well-being
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improved sperm quality
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healthier breastmilk
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the optimal* biological foundation of your future children!
The sooner you and your partner start detoxing your routines, habits, and environment of toxic exposures, the more your children (and YOU!) will benefit.
Save Time & Stress
Learn Practical Wisdom and a Commonsense Approach
You no longer need to figure out a practical nontoxic lifestyle by yourself. Spare yourself from the uncertainty around your choices and from wasting time and money on products that will turn out to be not as safe as you thought.
Sophia created the 40-Day Home Detox to offer to others a service that she wished that she had before she tried to get pregnant.
Included in the 40-Day Home Detox Experience:
- 25+ Videos
- 6 Masterclasses
- 10 Workbooks (editable PDF)
- Nontoxic Shopping Resources
- 16 Home Scavenger Hunts
- Private community forum for inspiration and support
- D-Tox Academy (3-month membership)
- Discounted one-on-one sessions for more personalized guidance from Sophia Ruan Gushee
You will leave with life-changing awareness and a commonsense, intuitive approach to living a less toxic lifestyle.
Program starts at just $250: 40-DAY HOME DETOX.
Not quite ready for an intensive home detox? Check out D-Tox Academy Membership for just $25/month: D-TOX ACADEMY.
Transform the Quality of Your Life & Your Children's Lives
Together, you and Sophia can create your customized roadmap to eliminate the risky toxic exposures that you won’t mind avoiding. You will learn a new perspective that empowers you to use your common sense to avoid toxic exposures. This will make it easier to break risky patterns and maintain a healthier lifestyle. Most importantly, it can unleash your opportunity to elevate your life quality.
Enjoy personalized support
Sophia can work 1:1 with you to eliminate toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and electromagnetic fields from your home, diet, self-care, and technology to optimize your fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Your journey will be both personalized and centered on her science-based method.
Discounted private sessions are available to participants of:
- 40-Day Home Detox, Sophia's signature detox program to transform your home, body, and mind. Learn more here: 40-DAY HOME DETOX.
- D-Tox Academy Membership for just $25/month, which provides community access to Sophia and Ruan Living's team. Learn more here: D-TOX ACADEMY.
Email [email protected] to schedule a FREE 15-minute consultation to determine which support is best for you.
Which Ruan Living Offerings are best for you?
Whether you want simple, slow changes to optimize your healthy living efforts or a deep dive, Ruan Living Offerings can you eliminate toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and electromagnetic fields from your home, diet, self-care, and technology.
We will detox what you won’t miss and create a customized roadmap to elevate your life’s trajectory towards your optimal mind / body / spirit / energy.*
*Please note: Everyone has a unique optimization level (or, potential) that is influenced by both genetic and non-genetic factors.
Who are Ruan Living Offerings for?
Ruan Living Offerings are for those who would like to optimize the health of their Homes for their growing family.
Ruan Living Offerings are for you if you would like to:
- Eliminate toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and EMFs from what you buy, own, and do in your home, diet, self-care, and technology
- Save time/stress/confusion in pivoting towards these healthy changes
- Detox for pregnancy
- Detox to optimize your IVF outcomes
- Detox for your new baby
- Detox your breastmilk
- Become a more conscious consumer and parent
- Decrease your contamination trail throughout your home, body, mind, and our ecosystems
- Contribute towards a healthier future
- Protect your children's bodies and brains from exposures such as neurotoxicants, carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, developmental toxicants, and developmental toxicants
Work with Sophia
Email inquiries to [email protected].
The most pioneering thought-leaders in the health and wellness industries rely on Sophia for her expertise on practical nontoxic living.
Immersing herself in this research for over 16 years, Sophia has authored several books and workbooks to simplify nontoxic living, prioritizing our health while balancing a full, modern life. She has served on the Well+Good Council and the Brown University School of Public Health Advisory Council, has helped thousands of people detox their lives, and her work has been featured across the country. Learn more here: Sophia Ruan Gushée.
Sophia and her husband reside in NYC and Long Island with their three daughters and rescued dog, Lucy.
Practical Nontoxic Living podcast
Listen to Sophia's wonderful and important Practical Nontoxic Living podcast conversations with some of the world's leading reproductive health experts. Click on the image for more.
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