

June is World Infertility Awareness Month, a month dedicated to the one in six couples worldwide who are quietly navigating the heartbreak, questions, and uncertainty that go along with the fertility journey.
A short while ago, I had the privilege of launching my book, Your Fertility Blueprint. That day, I gave a presentation where I shared everything I wish I had known earlier in my own journey, including the framework that can change how we understand fertility, the hope that often gets lost along the way, and the truth that you are far more than your unexplained infertility diagnosis. I truly believe that something unexplained is simply something uninvestigated.
In honour of Infertility Awareness Month, I’m sharing that presentation with you today. Whether you’re in the thick of it yourself, supporting someone who is, or you simply want to understand the infertility experience better, this episode is for you.
The products I used unknowingly, which poisoned my system with endocrine-disrupting chemicals:
- Hair straighteners
- Conventional beauty products
- Chemical chlorine-laced tampons
- Bath and Body Works fragranced lotions
- Plastic water bottles
Bio: Stephanie Gray
Stephanie Gray, DNP, MS, ARNP, AGNP-C, ABAAHP, FAARFM, is a functional medicine provider who helps men and women build sustainable, optimal health and longevity.
A nurse practitioner since 2009, Dr. Gray completed her doctorate focusing on estrogen metabolism from the University of Iowa in 2011 and holds a Master’s in Metabolic Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida’s Medical School.
Dr. Gray is one of the Midwest’s most credentialed female healthcare providers. She completed an Advanced Fellowship in Anti-Aging, Regenerative, and Functional Medicine in 2013 and became Iowa’s first BioTe certified provider—now the state’s only platinum provider with over 10,000 pellet placements. She is also certified as a SIBO doctor-approved practitioner, mold-literate provider, and ReCODE 2.0 practitioner for cognitive decline prevention.
An Amazon best-selling author, Dr. Gray wrote Your Longevity Blueprint and Your Fertility Blueprint, and hosts the Your Longevity Blueprint podcast. She co-founded Your Longevity Blueprint Nutraceuticals with her husband, Eric. After her own ten-year fertility journey, she now specializes in helping couples optimize reproductive health through functional medicine. Having lost her grandmother to vascular dementia, she is personally committed to helping families avoid cognitive decline. Dr. Gray founded the Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic in Hiawatha, Iowa.
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In this episode:
- I describe my 10-year journey of trying to conceive, including testing, treatments, IUIs, IVF, failed transfers, and my emotional struggle
- How, even as a nurse practitioner with a doctorate in functional medicine and over 15 years of clinical experience, I still struggled with infertility
- Why I believe unexplained infertility is simply uninvestigated infertility
- I outline six major factors that contributed to my infertility, explaining why they needed to be addressed together, not in isolation
- How the functional and integrative medicine approaches differ from those of conventional medicine
- I highlight the windows for egg and sperm development and explain how changes made during that time can improve egg and sperm quality
- The combination of conventional and functional medicine treatments I used, which ultimately led to the birth of my sons
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