Nutrient deficiency, lost connections and fertility interview with Angela Heap

Angela Heap is a Nutritionist with 16 years’ experience in fertility and pregnancy. She runs a successful London based clinic and works internationally with clients and manages a team of Nutritionists. Angela sees many clients with difficult fertility journeys as well as many in preparation for IVF. She also works closely with many IVF clinics in London and Europe. As well as running her own clinic Angela lectures to degree level on Fertility and Pregnancy for the British College of Nutritional Health, The British Association or Nutritional Therapists ( BANT) and The College of Naturopathic Medicine where she studied in 2005 and now trains Nutritional Therapists. Angela also collaborates regularly with a UK Based genetic testing company LifecodeGX and lectured to peers in the Fertilty Masterclass for an Australian Naturopathic company which represented an in depth look into fertility for practitioners. She also represents labs in the UK on fertility on a regular basis. In 2018 Angela presented on clinical fertility as part of one of the biggest international conference sponsored by UK labs Regenerus on Fertility and Pregnancy with prominent International Gynaecologists, Paediatricians, Doctors and Naturopathic Doctors in their field in ‘ The Gestational Journey’ in London. In 2019 she presented on Male Fertility at the International Congress of Nutritionist in Croatia. Angela is a speaker at the UK Fertility Show in the UK, and regularly collaborates with Urologists and Gynaecologists in the UK. Her area of special interest is multiple miscarriages, IVF, Genetics, PCOS and Thyroid health. She has been interviewed for podcasts and has taken part in many fertility summits over the years and writes regularly for magazines on Fertility and pregnancy. Naomi Woolfson, of Embrace Fertility, is a trauma-trained therapist specialising in supporting women emotionally and energetically to conceive, carry and birth the babies they long to hold. Naomi's debut book Fertile Thoughts : Unlock the Mind-Body Connection to Support Fertility and Restore Hope releases on 20th November. It will show readers how stress, subconscious beliefs, nervous system regulation, and emotional wellbeing influence fertility - and how they can feel calmer, safer, and more empowered while trying to conceive, be that at home or with the help of fertility treatment. Alongside working with clients globally in one to one therapy and coaching sessions Naomi runs an online 12 week mind-body group programme guiding women through the 5 steps of her unique Embrace Fertility Method; Comfort, Coping, Connection, Clearing and finally Creating. Naomi hosts the Embrace Fertility podcast offering emotional support and sharing mind-body techniques to help you feel calm and confident and ultimately find yourself again while waiting for your baby. Personally Naomi and her partner went through almost 4 years of infertility, IUI’s, IVF, anxiety, surgery and a miscarriage before before naturally conceiving both of their ginger children. Naomi also offers specialist high anxiety pregnancy support, offers birth trauma release sessions and runs the hypnobirthing course Embrace Bump to Baby of which the first week is free.