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The Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit 2021

There is so much to learn.
​We have put together this incredible package just for you!
With the Summit Package you'll get:
  • Total Access to all of the video interviews from the Summit 2021.
  • BONUS: Our unique collection of interviews that did not get included the Summit (SEE BELOW)
  • BONUS: A wide variety of cooking recipes and videos to teach you how to prepare whole food plant based dishes (including the basics: using an instant pot, breakfast, main dishes, soups, salads, dressings/sauces and desserts/snacks)
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Would you like to have permanent access to the entire series?
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Purchase The Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit 2021 Package - $197
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We CAN ALL
Have a Healthier Future!

So many women are having trouble conceiving and carrying a baby to full term.  On top of that, many women develop complications during their pregnancy such as gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders including preeclampsia.

From the CDC:
“In the United States, about 6% to 9% of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes. Recent studies found that from 2000 to 2010, the percentage of pregnant women with gestational diabetes increased 56% and the percentage of women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes before pregnancy increased 37%.”
Is infertility a common problem?

From the CDC...
"About 6% of married women aged 15 to 44 years in the United States are unable to get pregnant after one year of trying (infertility). Also, about 12% of women aged 15 to 44 years in the United States have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term.”

Learn how you can change this. ​

​Simple diet and lifestyle changes will yield tremendous results.

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We have brought together medical and nutritional experts who have been studying the power of plant-based nutrition for decades.

We have brought them together to help YOU get your body pregnant ready. 

Learn from the best. 

Hear from women themselves who have reversed chronic conditions and went on to have the families they so desired.

Here is what you will learn in this truly new and avant-garde Summit:
  • simple ways to actually be healthier to increase fertility in quick and lasting ways.
  • dramatically decrease the risk of troubling pregnancy complications.
  • reduce the risk and possibility of birth defects.
  • easy and understandable methods to improve the health of your children and grandchildren.
  • understand how to decrease the risk of chronic disease later in life.
  • you have a finite window for achieving a pregnancy. Optimize your body.
You will have questions. Our experts will have answers. Answers you will most likely not hear from your clinician or doctor.

Your health is something you can control! And we're not talking about hormone therapy, freezing eggs or going down the IVF rabbit hole. We're talking about taking charge of your health destiny to have the healthiest possible pregnancy and baby.

Learn from doctors helping couples to conceive naturally as well as researchers and nutrition experts who give you a totally revised picture of optimal pre-conception health.
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​The answers you need

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We at the Pregnancy Advantage are concerned not only about diet and lifestyle, but also the myriad of environmental chemicals that women and men are exposed to prior to starting a family.  We want you to have all the information you need to achieve what we call pre-pregnancy health optimization.

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Starting a family is part of the human journey, but there is a lot to learn.   We want you to know how your food, environment and your physical health affect your fertility.​​​ You will also understand many of the factors that go into having a healthy pregnancy as well as creating a healthy child.

Hear from: 
  • women who were told they were infertile and would NEVER have children, but when they learned to make simple changes they went on to have their own healthy families.
  • doctors who help couples to naturally get pregnant and have complication free pregnancies.
  • researchers who share the impact of what environmental toxins are doing to you.
  • medical specialists who share why women are having trouble conceiving.
  • Katherine, at age 27, who was literally in for surgery to have her uterus, tubes and ovaries removed due to stage 4 endometriosis, but yet went on to have 3 healthy children of her own.
And so many others...

We want you to have the healthiest and the most complication free pregnancy possible. Once you have this knowledge, you will be able to get your body pregnant ready. So join us and sign up for this amazing Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit Package.

​Respectfully,
Debra Shapiro, M.D., FACOG, DIPABLM
Jeanne Schumacher, M.ED., ED.D.
Co-Founders of The Pregnancy Advantage
www.PregnancyAdvantage.net
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Overview of the Summit

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Debra Shapiro,
M.D., FACOG, DipABLM

Confessions of a Reformed OBGYN
Trouble getting pregnant? 
Why there is an increase in pregnancy complications?

Co-Founder of The Pregnancy Advantage. Dr. Shapiro shares her nutritional journey and observations of why women are having trouble getting pregnant.

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Jorge Chavarro,
M.D., Sc.M., Sc.D.

Co-Author of The Fertility Diet 

This book reveals startling new research from the landmark Nurses' Health Study, which shows that the food you eat can boost your fertility. His research focuses on investigating the role of nutritional factors in the pathogenesis of diseases affecting reproductive and hormone sensitive organs.
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Neal Barnard,
MD, FAC

Diet and Lifestyle DO Make a Difference.


Hormones in Dairy.  
What are they doing to YOUR body?

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine www.PCRM.org
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Brenda Davis, RD

Nourish the Body
Nutrients of Concern

We discuss critical nutrients that are needed in the diet to get your body pregnant ready.
Author: Becoming Vegan, Nourish - The Definitive Plant-based Nutrition Guide for Families
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Michael Klaper, MD

Plant Based Pregnancies

Author, Pregnancy, Children and the Vegan Diet

Get Rid of Toxic Food to Change Your Health
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Jane Esselstyn, RN

Raising a Plant Based Family
Research on the effects of a plant-based diet on pediatric obesity and hypercholesterolemia.
Women, families and community drive Jane’s work forward. She is the host of the annual conference: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease for Women, which is focused on the power of plants!
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Christina Miller,
​MD, FACEP

Health Issues? Heal Your Body Prior to Conception.

Dealing with an autoimmune disease? Dr. Miller put her own lupus into full remission.  You must heal your body prior to pregnancy.  Your baby's health depends on your health.
​www.plantbasedtelehealth.com
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Jody Henry, RN

Infertility to Fertility

Jody tried for 13.5 years to conceive during which she tried 4 years of IVF.  Was told she was infertile and would not get pregnant.... but suddenly… she did.

Hear her story behind the miracle.
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Joanna Frey, DC

Plant Based Pregnancy
Getting Back to the Garden


Get back to Nature. Heal your body.  Consider water fasting to help restore your body quickly.
Back to the Garden - Puerto Rico
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Reshma Shah, MD, MPH

Nourish the Body
Importance of Infant and Childhood Nutrition


Dr. Reshma Shah is a board-certified developmental and behavioral pediatrician of University of Illinois Health and an associate professor of pediatrics in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and author of the book, Nourish - The Definitive Plant-based Nutrition Guide for Families
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Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph.D.

Don’t Drown in Your Gene Pool
Successfully Raising Plant Based Children


His research on the effects of brain peptides on the regulation of reproductive hormones paved the way for him to become an expert on the regulation of women’s hormones.

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Jeffrey Smith, Filmmaker

Regain Your Health. Change Your Food.

Movies: Secret Ingredients, & Genetic Roulette
Founder, Institute for Responsible Technology;  
Author, Seeds of Deception
www.responsibletechnology.org
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Kim Campbell, Author & Chef

A Plant Based Journey
Raising a Plant Based Family and

​Re-Learning How to Cook.

Author of several cook books, Plant Pure Nation Cookbook, that was released at the opening of the film Plant Pure Nation, followed by Plant Pure Kitchen.
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Stephan Esser, MD

Shape Up for Pregnancy.  
They do not call it labor for nothing.

A physician, author and motivational speaker specializing in sports medicine and lifestyle modification. He was raised plant based and is now raising his family plant based.
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Marcia Schaefer, DC

Align Your Body with Preconception Health

Helping families to achieve their goals with the understanding she had from healing herself of metastatic thyroid cancer, and her success rate with increasing fertility is 100%.
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Katherine Lawrence-Ireland

Reversing Infertility
Through Your Fork

At 27, with stage 4 endometriosis and was literally on the table to have her uterus, tubes and ovaries removed, but now has a family of 3 healthy boys. PCRM Food For Life Instructor -  www.foodsavedme.com
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Susan Levin,
​MS, RD, CSSD

Optimizing Pre-Pregnancy Nutrition
Eat From the Rainbow


Director of Nutrition Education for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
www.PCRM.org
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Alison Tierney, 
MS, RD, CD, CSO

From PCOS and Infertile
to Plant Based AND Fertile

Hear her powerful story of how she tried various fertility treatments, which didn’t work and when she changed what was at the end of her fork,  she became pregnant. Her passion is preventing, managing, and reversing chronic diseases with nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.
 www.wholesomellc.com
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Jill Zechowy,
​MD, MS

The Emotional Impact of Your Fertility Journey

Experiencing Primary or
Secondary Infertility
Specializing in perinatal
mental health -www.WomensMentalHealthMD.com
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Mahima Gulati, M.D., M.Sc., E.C.N.U., F.A.C.E., A.B.L.M.

Simple Solutions to Deal with FemaleIssues.

Irregular periods, weight, hormones, inflammation, thyroid, autoimmune.
She is a board-certified endocrinologist and Lifestyle Medicine physician working out of Middlesex Health hospital in Middletown, CT and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Sciences, at Quinnipiac University.
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Laurie Marbas, MD 

  Power of Plants
Raising a Plant Based Family

 
She is co-founder of Plant Based TeleHealth, focused on the prevention and reversal of chronic disease utilizing lifestyle medicine. She is also co-founder of Healthy Human Revolution, whose mission is to provide resources that help individuals successfully adopt and sustain a whole food, plant-based diet.
www.plantbasedtelehealth.com
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Marsha-Gail Davis, MD

Disease Prevention to Optimize Pregnancy

The Power at the End of Your Fork
Lifestyle medicine and its Impact on Health and Wellness



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Jeanne Schumacher,
M.Ed., EdD.

Childhood's Silent Disruptors: Learning in a Toxic World


Are Toxins Keeping You from Getting Pregnant?
Co-Founder, The Pregnancy Advantage  - www.PregnancyAdvantage.net

Additional bonus videos

These additional videos listed below were not part of the original Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit 2021...
...but we thought you should have these as well! Score.
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Neal Barnard, MD, FACC

  • Soy Products
  • New transitional vegan foods
  • Impact of hormones on women from meat/dairy
  • Does being overweight impact fertility? 
  • BMI. Is there a sweet spot for fertility?​
www.PCRM.Org
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Joanna Frey, DC

  • Plant based pregnancy
  • Cravings
  • Post pregnancy
  • Recovery
  • Raising plant based children
  • Women having trouble conceiving
Back to the Garden - Puerto Rico​
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NEAL BARNARD, MD, FACC

  • Probiotics like kombucha, Kefir, Sauerkraut
  • Herbicide: atrazine effect on pregnancy
  • Herbicide: glyphosate effect on pregnancy
  • Hand Sanitizer - with Triclosan
  • PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls
  • Endometriosis and impact on pregnancy
​www.PCRM.Org
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Christina Miller,
​MD, FACEP

  • Type II Diabetes
  • Organic vs non organic
  • Inflammation
  • Exercise
  • Medicinal Herbs
www.plantbasedtelehealth.com
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Michael Klaper, MD

  • Dr. Klaper's experience with Vegan pregnancy
  • Pregnancy, Children and the Vegan Diet
  • Does a plant based lifestyle work for everyone?
  • Dealing with COVID 19
  • Successful transition to plant based living
  • Plant Based Telemedicine​
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MAHIMA GULATI, M.D., M.SC., E.C.N.U., F.A.C.E., A.B.L.M.

  • Thyroid disease
  • Women’s health and fertility
  • PCOS
  • Iodine
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Meet the Team Behind The Pregnancy Advantage Summit

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DEBRA SHAPIRO, M.D., FACOG, DIPABLM

Co-Founder - The Pregnancy Advantage

 I am a Board Certified OBGYN, Lifestyle Medicine Physician, and Certified Health Coach with 28 years of clinical practice after my residency.  I was not taught about nutrition as it relates to fertility in my original training, but I have been studying plant-based nutrition for the past 8 years. 

I have a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell’s Center for Nutrition Studies, and I have obtained over 250 hours of continuing education in plant-based nutrition.  
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​I personally eat a low-fat whole plant food diet with minimal oil, salt or sugar. I needed to learn how to cook food without oil, and took the Rouxbe Cooking School Forks Over Knives 3-month course.  I am a certified health coach, through Health Coach Institute and have helped many individuals transform their diets and their approach to food and health.
I have seen remarkable disease reversal in my clients, and believe strongly in the power of transformational coaching.  I am also ethically vegan and was trained as a Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator, though Main Street Vegan Academy.

Visit my website www.ANewViewofFood.com

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Jeanne Schumacher, M.Ed., Ed.D.

CO-FOUNDER - THE PREGNANCY ADVANTAGE
Founder - The Plant based academy


 I earned my doctorate in science and education and have taught for over 35 years. I am a firm believer in “walking the walk” and am committed to inspiring people to change their health destiny through a non-toxic whole-foods, plant-based lifestyle. Being passionate about making a difference in the lives of others, I teach practical ways to improve their health. I believe that food is our best medicine and helps us get our bodies back to a state of health when faced with “dis”-ease. I have been sharing my knowledge through motivational and educational lectures as well as on my website www.SimplyPlantBased.net.


I have followed a plant-based diet since 2009. My transformation to a healthier lifestyle began with a trip to the emergency room with a 105 degree fever, deadly high blood pressure and an unknown infection. Luckily, the physician who attended me was not only trained in medicine but also in nutrition. This doctor started me on a journey that would not only change my health destiny, but my life as well. I have successfully earned my Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate through eCornell - Center for Nutritional Studies and completed the Women’s Studies and Food Over Medicine program through the Wellness Forum. 
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DISCLAIMER:
The information contained in The Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit should not be seen as medical, nursing or nutritional advice for any particular individual listener.  It is certainly not meant to take the place of seeing your own licensed health professionals, including your doctors. 


You understand and agree that The Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit speakers are not providing health care, medical, nutritional or therapy services to any individual listener; and are not diagnosing, treating or curing any disease, condition or other physical or mental ailment.  The speakers are not acting in the capacity of one’s own doctor, licensed dietitian, nutritionist or therapist.  


We at the Pregnancy Advantage Fertility Summit encourage you to maintain a relationship with your own primary care physician or doctor.  Do not discontinue or change any treatment plan that you may be on, as a result of information provided by the speakers, without first discussing the change with your health care providers.  The opinions expressed by the speakers are their own and may not reflect the views of The Pregnancy Advantage.  Any reliance you put on such material is therefore strictly at your own risk. 
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