🌱 Supporting Your Fertility With Functional Medicine - Why Digging Deeper Can Finally Give You the Answers You’ve Been Searching For

By: Dr. Alyssa McPeak

If you’ve been trying to get pregnant and something just isn’t clicking, you’re not alone — and you’re not broken. So many women are told that their struggles are “normal,” “unexplained,” or something that only medication or IVF can fix. But the truth is:

👉 Your fertility is a reflection of your whole-body health. When something is off in your hormones, gut, thyroid, stress response, or lifestyle, your cycle feels it — and so does your fertility.

At Roots Wholistic Health, we believe in understanding the why behind fertility challenges, not just treating the symptoms. That’s where functional medicine shines.

🔎 Why Functional Medicine Is So Powerful for Fertility

Fertility doesn’t just depend on your ovaries — it depends on your entire internal ecosystem.

Functional medicine looks at the systems that support hormone balance, ovulation, and implantation. When we uncover the root causes, we can actually fix them — naturally, effectively, and without guesswork.

Most women have never had the right testing done. They’ve only had basic labs like TSH or FSH check. But these don’t tell the full story.

Your fertility deserves more.

The Importance of Proper Testing

To fully understand your fertility, you need a complete picture — not just surface-level information.

Here’s what real functional medicine testing includes:

✔ Comprehensive Hormone Testing

This includes estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, LH, FSH, and how your hormones metabolize in the body. Imbalances here can impact ovulation, PMS, cycles, egg quality, and implantation.

✔ Thyroid Panel (all markers, not just TSH!)

Most fertility issues involve the thyroid. We look at TSH, Free T3, Free T4, and antibodies — especially for Hashimoto’s, which is often missed in traditional testing.

✔ Cortisol & Stress Response Testing

Your stress hormones tell us whether your body feels safe enough to ovulate. Chronic stress can cause long cycles, anovulation, low progesterone, and trouble conceiving.

✔ Gut Testing

Your gut controls inflammation, nutrient absorption, detoxification, and hormone metabolism. If your gut is inflamed, your fertility will be too.

Functional medicine testing takes out the guesswork so we can create a personalized, targeted plan for your body.

🌸 The 7 Areas Every Woman Needs to Look At For Fertility

I’ve taken the most important foundations of fertility and built them into my signature FERTILE Plan — a holistic approach that helps women understand their bodies, restore balance, and support natural conception.

Here’s what we look at:

F — Food

You can’t build healthy hormones without the right nutrients. We focus on real, blood-sugar-balancing foods that support ovulation, egg quality, and how to time your foods to your cycle.

E — Endocrine Disruptors

Your environment matters. Plastics, fragrances, cleaning products, personal care products, and chemicals can mimic hormones and interfere with fertility. I help you swap these for cleaner, safer options.

R — Rest & Recovery

Your hormones cannot heal in a stressed, depleted body. Sleep, nervous system support, and calming routines are essential parts of fertility — not luxuries.

T — Thyroid

The thyroid is the thermostat of your hormones. Even subtle thyroid issues can cause irregular cycles, anovulation, PMS, miscarriage, and infertility.

Functional testing helps us see exactly what’s happening.

I — Identify Your Fertile Window

So many women are timing intercourse incorrectly — through no fault of their own. Tracking your cervical mucus, LH surge, and cycle phases gives you clarity and confidence.

L — Less Stress

Stress impacts every hormone. By supporting your adrenals, cortisol levels, nervous system, and blood sugar we create a body that feels safe to conceive.

E — Empower

You deserve to understand your body. When you learn what your hormones are doing — and why — everything becomes easier. Empowerment is the foundation of healing.

✨ You Don’t Have to Do This Alone

If you’re struggling to conceive, your body is not failing you. It’s communicating with you. And once you understand why things feel out of balance, you can finally make the changes that support real, natural fertility.

Functional medicine offers answers. The FERTILE Plan offers a pathway. And you deserve both.

To learn more about how to support your fertility, balance your hormones, and prepare your body for pregnancy, visit my online resources at Find Your Fertility.

👉 www.findyourfertility.live

Your body was designed to be fertile — now let’s give it the support it needs. 💛