Nutrition consultant Kathryn Simmons Flynn, B.Ed is an educator and adviser on the healing benefits of whole foods. She was trained by Paul Pitchford, author of Healing with Whole Foods, and has worked extensively with Dr. Randine Lewis, author of The Infertility Cure and The Way of the Fertile Soul, to develop the Fertile Soul’s integrative nutrition program for reproductive health.
Kathryn uses both Western and Eastern nutritional therapies in a three-tiered approach that guides her clients to greater levels of health, both emotionally and physically. By incorporating delicious whole foods with regular exercise and relaxation practices, she creates individualized plans that motivate her clients to stay on track and achieve their desired results.
Kathryn is the author of Cooking for Fertility: Foods to Nourish Your Fertile Soul, a cookbook intended to help men and women find reproductive balance through Asian dietary techniques. She recently filmed a Cooking for Fertility DVD to share practical tips for how to cook for fertility . In her spare time she teaches yoga and is busy in the kitchen creating a new product line for her company Fertile Foods. Kathryn also belongs Team Northrup, a group of women and men who are philosophically aligned with the work of Christiane Northrup, M.D., one of the country’s most respected authorities on woman’s health, and author of the New York Times best-selling books Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Mother-Daughter Wisdom.
Learn about Kathryn’s individualized nutrition consults.





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Hi Kathryn,
I just found you on twitter and thought I’d be a bit forward and ask a favour. I’m a pregnancy and postnatal exercise specialist and I’m doing an online version of my birthball-handbook later this month and am looking for bonuses to give away with it. Do you have anything on pregnancy and/or postnatal nutrition I could offer? It would mean people have to come to you with their contact details to get it and could get you some good traffic.
Let me know your thoughts.
Kind Regards,
Mark.
Hi Kathryn,
My email reply to you was rejected, so I’m posting it here.
I lost 22 pounds of post-pregnancy weight doing bentos and Weight Watchers at the same time. For that reason alone I think bento is a great topic for potential and new mothers. It’s a fantastic way to keep lunch portions under control. Having had two kids myself, I know that it can be so easy to just use the “eating for two” excuse to go nuts. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you out.
Pikko
Hi Pikko,
Congratulations on your weight loss! I am not familiar with bento but would love to hear more. We are looking into why your email bounced and hopefully it won’t happen again.
Thanks for writing!
Kathryn
Kathryn,
You have a fantastic web site and I love all the articles. Can’t wait to see what you write about next!
Cathy
Hi Kathryn. Congratulations on your wonderful website. It is very well designed, with great colors, and very upbeat.
I love your blog! As a holistic nutritionist Paul Pitchford’s Healing With Whole Foods is one of my greatest resources. I’m very excited to hear him speak in Vancouver in May! I also love the work of Dr. Randine Lewis and Dr. Christiane Northrup. You learned from some amazing teachers! I’m really happy to have found your blog!
Just wanted to meet you, nice blog and very interested in this subject. Great stuff. Thanks for resourse
Jacqueline
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Hi Jaqueline!
It’s nice to meet you. I checked out your blog and you have some amazing first hand experience about fitness and being mom. I’m glad to know about your site!
Kathryn
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Hello Kathryn,
It’s Amanda Avery from high school, Jenn C just sent me your website! I wish I would have know what you were up to 2 years ago! I have been trying to get pregnant for 2 years and going through ++ fertility treatments for my PCOS. I just found out I am 5 weeks pregnant….finally! I am ecstatic and looking to do everything possible to be healthy! I eat very well but would love to optimize it! I look forward to looking through your site! Congrats on your success! I would love to hear from you!
Amanda
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I don’t have a comment, I have a question but I don’t know where to post it. My Question: what is the procedure called involving the stitching of the cervix as a drawstring purse. This procedure delays a pre-mature delivery, extends the fetal gestation, and has a French name. What is it?
Hi Ms. Millet,
The procedure you mention is called a Cerclage and is used in the case of “incompetent cervix” to prevent premature delivery.
Thanks for your question!
Kathryn,
I am so impressed by this website. The information is useful, informative, and revelatory. I am so excited to have this site as a resource throughout my pregnancy! Thank you!
Hi there Kathryn,
I have an 8 month old she is very happy and a wonderful child. I have had a low breast milk supply since her birth. I am being tested for PCOS. I pump and take herbal supplements. I have tried fennel, blessed thissle, and goatsrue, (Now I pump 3-4 times a day/ I want to breast feed as long as I can. I do not want to take Metfomin the recommended medication for PCOS. DO you have any suggestions. I am a vegetarian and trying to avoid soy and dairy and suggestions on a diet?? I try to eat as many greens as possible. I was juicing carrot juice. I was doing a lot of mug beans and brown rice. I need to lose weight to get my hormones back in balance and the PCOS. any suggestions would be helpful.
Blessings
Lauren
Hi Lauren, Congratulations on breastfeeding for 8 months! As you probably know, there is a relationship between PCOS and low milk supply. Even so, there are some things you can do. Some herbs work better than others for different moms. Make sure your health care provider and/or lactation consultant are experienced with PCOS and breastfeeding. Breastfeed before offering solids. Get plenty of rest. In addition, there are several article on this site that may be helpful. “Infertility and Breastfeeding,” “Breastfeeding and Milk Supply,” and “How do I Increase my Milk Supply?” Feel free to contact me privately if you’d like more help. Thanks for writing!
Renee Beebe, Lactation Consultant for Fertile Foods
I have been trying to get pregnant for the past 3 yrs. No success, I believe I have PCOS and don’t have the money to go to the doctor or have fertility treatments and such! But I really want to be blessed with a little bundle of joy! I am starting to believe it will not happen. I wanted to know if there was anything herbal I could try, ANYTHING! Would really appreciate some advice, thank you!
Your husband turned me on to your site. Great work! I was dying and in menopause at 38. Change to a live foods diet and got welll, came out of menopause, had a profound spiritual experience and birthed my first child at age 47. Nothing is more important than nourishing a new life into wholeness. Good for you!
Hello, I was checking your page and I find very interesting, I was looking where to send you an email, but I found it : ( , so I decided to let you get in this way, I would give you a mini guide to get pregnant, if you want it You can give your visitors, the download link sent to you by twitter. (@serchfield)
Greetings! : – )
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If you’re interested, please contact me about joining our community for the launch!
Cheers,
Sandy Hayashi
Community Partners Editor
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Hi Kathryn, thank you for such a wonderful website and resource. I am 41 years old and have been trying to get pregnant for 2 years to have a sibling for my 3 1/2 year old daughter. My question is regarding Chlorella vs. barley or wheat grass. My fsh is 29 and AMH is low at .16. I was trying to use wheat and barley grass to lower the fsh and it seemed to create too much coolness. I am wondering about Chlorella if this may be a better choice for nutrients. I am motivated to use whole foods to heal my fertility!! ANy suggestion would be so greatly appreciated.
thank you. Nancy Williams
Thanks for your tips. One thing I have noticed is that banks as well as financial institutions are aware of the spending routines of consumers while also understand that most people max out their credit cards around the holidays. They correctly take advantage of this specific fact and start flooding ones inbox and also snail-mail box having hundreds of Zero APR credit cards offers immediately after the holiday season concludes. Knowing that for anyone who is like 98% in the American community, you’ll get at the one opportunity to consolidate credit card debt and transfer balances for 0 rate credit cards.
Kathryn, this is a great blog with lots of great information! I will most certainly reccommend this to anyone have infertility problems.
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