Fertility Support for Couples

Fertility support for couples trying to conceive

I support couples trying to conceive, with personalised fertility nutrition, fertility testing and lifestyle support. By working with both partners, I take a complete and considered view of your health, addressing the key factors that can improve egg and sperm quality, as well as the wider internal environment. This collaborative approach can help optimise your chances of conception, while ensuring you both feel supported and informed at every stage.

Why 3 Months Is Essential for Improving Egg and Sperm Quality

Where possible, I recommend allowing at least three months of dedicated preconception nutrition and lifestyle support before trying to conceive or beginning assisted fertility treatment.

Sperm development takes approximately 70–90 days, meaning the quality of sperm used for conception or IVF reflects the nutritional and lifestyle environment of the preceding months. Egg development is also influenced during the three months leading up to ovulation, making this a key window to improve egg quality and support hormonal balance.

Working within this timeframe allows me to make steady, meaningful improvements to areas such as nutrient status, blood sugar regulation, inflammation, oxidative stress, and the health of the uterine environment. This targeted approach allows time to improve both sperm and egg quality, optimising your chances of successful conception.

I work with a limited number of clients at any one time to ensure each couple receives considered, attentive guidance throughout their fertility journey

Why Supporting Both Partners Is Key for Fertility and Conception

This preparatory phase is about more than achieving pregnancy. It is an opportunity to strengthen the foundations of both you and your partner’s health, supporting not only conception and treatment outcomes, but also the wellbeing of the pregnancy and the long-term health of your baby. Just as importantly, it offers space to restore and optimise your health for the years ahead.

Research consistently shows that both egg and sperm quality influence fertilisation, embryo development, implantation, and long-term child health.

I provide targeted preconception nutrition and lifestyle support to help couples trying to conceive, focusing on improving both egg and sperm quality. While fertility support often focuses primarily on the woman, male factor infertility contributes to around half of fertility challenges, making sperm health a critical part of successful conception and pregnancy outcomes.

Supporting both partners allows key areas of health to be addressed together — including:

Ovulation and menstrual cycle regularity
Sperm count, motility, morphology, and DNA integrity/fragmentation
Hormonal balance
Metabolic and blood sugar stability
Focusing on mitochondria health for both sperm and egg, so they have the energy to do their job!
Nutrient availability for sperm health, ovulation and early pregnancy plus overall health
Miscarriage history
The microbiome for both the male and female whether that be the gut, semen or uterine microbiome. They all count.
Other factors such as: sleep, medical history, lifestyle, stress levels.
Preconception nutrition

Recent stats show that men produce 59% less sperm than 50 years ago (2017 study by Hagai Levine, updated in 2022).

What is Included

Consultation

A comprehensive initial consultation: 90-120 minutes

Bespoke to you/and your partner to support hormonal balance, ovulation, sperm health, egg quality, nutrient repletion, metabolic health (blood sugars and inflammation), and reproductive wellbeing — without restriction or overwhelm.

Food Plans and Recipe Handouts

These can be discussed together to help you engage with how certain foods can really make the difference.

Bespoke & Targeted Supplementation Guidance

Evidence-informed recommendations tailored specifically to your physiology. You will learn how each supplement can potentially help key areas of yours and your partners fertility health. All of my clients have access to discounted supplements.

Functional Laboratory Testing Recommendations and Interpretation

Where appropriate, we may use targeted testing to provide a deeper insight into both individuals health such as microbiome testing (gut, semen, uterine); adrenal stress testing; hormone testing, genetic testing; sperm DNA fragmentation, . (cost of tests charged separately)

Ad-hoc Contact

Short calls or messaging if needed, in between sessions (Mon-Fri).

Ongoing Support and Accountability

As well as your initial consultation you will receive six 1-2-1 sessions for both of you. Your first follow up consultation is 1 week after the initial, then follow-up consultations every two weeks allow us to keep you on track; reduce overwhelm by discussing different topics that can influence fertility; go through test results where appropriate; assess symptoms. Understand the mind body connection and be given emotional support as things arise. Adjustments are always made thoughtfully and strategically.

GP Contact

Referral Letters to GP or consultants at your clinic, where needed.

Your Investment

3 MONTH Couples Fertility Programme – £1450

Payment plan of instalments available

Every programme is thoughtfully personalised, because no two fertility journeys are the same.

Contact

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DR LEAH HECHTMAN