Foundations Of Fertility
New Online Program
for Women Struggling To Get Pregnant
Prepare your body for natural conception and a healthy pregnancy
No matter what condition holds you back!
Foundations of Fertility is for women who
- Have been trying to get pregnant for over a year
- Want peace of mind knowing they are doing their best
- Are concerned about miscarriage
- Believe in their body’s ability to get pregnant
- Would like a step-by-step plan that's evidence based
- Want to give their child a healthy start in life
A self-paced online nutrition & lifestyle program professionally designed to...
Optimise your Nutrition for Fertility
Build your body’s reserves for Pregnancy
Promote healthy Egg Quality
Identify mental, emotional, and metabolic Impediments to Conception
Support healthy immune activity in the Womb
Track your cycle Pattern
Reveal your Fertile Window of Conception
Foundations of Fertility suits women who
- Dream of getting pregnant naturally
- Feel overwhelmed by infertility
- Don't know what's causing the problem
- Do know what's causing the problem but don't know how to fix it
- Want to improve their odds of success naturally or with IVF
- Have low or normal ovarian reserve
- Have high, low, or normal Estrogen, Progesterone, AMH, LH, or FSH
- Have Thyroid or other energy issues
- Want to protect baby from the nutrient demands of pregnancy
- Are willing to go all out to make it happen
How the program works
- 5 weeks of daily letters via web portal
- Access and read at your own pace
- 5 to 7 minute reads each
- Understand what really drives infertility
- Implement each simple instruction at your own pace
- Build your fertility foundation one step at a time
- Easily graph your menstrual cycle pattern in real time
- Allow time for your body to adapt - feel your fertility transforming
- Enjoy four months weekly support
Whats required of You ?
Read the daily letters & follow the easy instructions one at a time - thats it!
Identify & eliminate foods inhibiting your fertility
Optimise digestion, build crucial nutrient reserves in advance of pregnancy
Recognise and eliminate hormone disrupting products.
Recognise and release and thought patterns that prevent change
Understand what your body is telling you, track your cycle, identify your fertile window for successful conception
Embrace new lifestyle habits that drive fertility, learn about powerful 'silver bullet' interventions that work
The program is easy to read and simple to follow, has no unnecessary distractions or unattainable instructions. Is requires no prior knowledge of medical issues, nutrition, or biology. The explanations are paired down to the bare minimum and the advice focusses only on what is most important for success based on my 15 years of experience.
Simply read each letter – follow the advice – and ask questions if you get stuck!
What's inside the Program?
Click the + signs for more info…
A step-by-step guide to implementing Optimal Nutrition for your specific body that supports fertility & healthy pregnancy
A do and don’t food list, meal planner & shopping guide
Protein targets simplified, fertility disrupting fats identified and eliminated, carbohydrate advice for weight loss or gain
Specialist micronutrient supplement suggestions to – optimise fertility – support mitochondrial energy production – boost organ reserves ahead of pregnancy to protect baby
Easy to follow selection of breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. Delicious dessert and healthy snack recipes to keep you on track.
Understand the devastating effect of chronic inflammation on fertility and learn how to reduce it naturally so that hormones work efficiently
Detailed instructions for graphing your menstrual cycle to identify if ovulation is occurring and when your fertile window is open for conception
Short-list of tests to request from your GP for an accurate reading of your fertility anatomy and bloodwork.
Important Disclaimer
Infertility is a complex condition driven by many factors. The program provides an understanding of these factors from a clinical and scientific perspective.
It explains how optimal nutrition enables the normal functioning of your ovaries, womb lining, hormones, digestion, immune system, and cellular metabolism regardless of your infertility condition, and how poor nutrition compromises all of these functions.
It guides you to optimise your diet in line with your body’s specific needs with a focus on supporting mitochondrial energy production which in turn can significantly improve fertility in people experiencing nutrient insufficiency.
However, it is important to understand that neither I nor anyone else can offer guaranteed solutions to infertility.
I occasionally offer my opinion on certain medical approaches to infertility. I do it from an evidence based respectful perspective, but do not give nor contradict any medical advice. None of the personalised investigations I suggest in the program are medically diagnostic in any way.
I strongly encourage you to consult your doctor for medical advice on fertility before starting this program, especially if you are currently taking any medications.
Fully completing the program will...
- Support your body’s energy production system on which fertility depends
- Support your ovarian egg production system
- Encourage a receptive womb lining
- Improve the odds of successful conception
- Prepare your body for a healthy pregnancy
- Protect against the risks of poor nutrition in baby
- Help lower your body burden of stress which impedes fertility
- Increase your body confidence and self-awareness
About Me
I’m Brendan O’Brien NT MSc, the Natural Fertility Consultant.
For the last 15 years I’ve worked with women in the 30-to-45-year age bracket who are struggling to conceive or to maintain a healthy pregnancy.
Had I been unable to have children of my own it would have broken something deep within me, and seeing the anguish of those who cannot start their own family provoked me to commit myself to figuring out answers. I have worked on nothing else ever since.
I hold a master’s degree in the science of Personalised Nutrition, and a Practice Diploma in Nutritional Therapy. I also teach nutrition therapy principles and supervise clinical training at the International Institute of Nutrition & Health (IINH). I take continuous training in Functional Endocrinology and Nutritional Immunology.
I live in Limerick, Ireland with my wife Siobhán, our three children Ethan, David, and Kara-Maria (and four dogs!).
Brendan O’Brien NT MSc
Why I created the program
I know you want pregnancy to happen yesterday, but I also know you can’t make it happen against your body’s will, even with IVF. You can, however, make the internal environment of your body more receptive to conception and friendly to pregnancy by changing three key elements over which you have full control – your nutrition, daily lifestyle habits, and mindset. I call this laying the Foundation of Fertility and it has the power to transform your body’s internal terrain regardless of any condition you may have.
Uncertainty is the central feeling of infertility. The stress of not knowing how it’s all going to end is unnerving, confidence breaking, and hard to live with, yet every couple on this journey feels it all the time. I wanted a way to mitigate the sense of overwhelm experienced by women on this journey by providing an easy to follow plan which addresses the underlying functional imbalances that make resolving infertility more difficult.
Having seen the anguish of those who were unable to conceive, or who gave up in frustration, despair, or financial hardship, I wanted to bring the rich science of nutrition and natural healing to this complex topic by providing women with a step-by-step plan that builds fertility from the ground up. I also wanted to help couples believe in their ability to succeed and keep going despite repeated disappointments by showing them the true underlying reasons for much of todays infertility, and help them understand that they had a lot of power over that.
In addition I am increasingly concerned about the slow but steady decline of health in children, much of which is linked to undernutrition in the infamous ‘first thousand days from conception’, so I also strive to help would-be moms get their body ready for the enormous nutritional demands of pregnancy. Building up ‘organ reserve’ in advance of pregnancy helps to protect baby from the increasingly common nutrient insufficiencies of gestation so that they begin life on a strong footing.
All of these reasons are why I created the program.
Brendan
Some common questions answered...
Q. What are the program’s success rates and what if I don’t get pregnant on the program?
A. First I need to explain how this program came to be.
For the last 15 years I’ve helped women with infertility achieve pregnancy using a comprehensive program I called – Return to Fertility. This involved detailed consultations, personalised interventions, tests, therapies, and a wide range of other support. That program achieved a 75% overall success rate, but it was a demanding and expensive process that not all clients needed or could afford. After receiving feedback from previous clients I redesigned the program into three sequential stages to make it more accessible, efficient, and affordable but without losing any of its impact. That’s how this program was born. The three phases I created are called Foundations of Fertility, Pathways to Pregnancy, and Fertility Breakthrough.
Foundations of Fertility, the program outlined on this page, is where all clients now start. It is a self-paced, online program focused on optimising nutrition and tracking your cycle. It has a 50+% success rate for those who follow it diligently. Clients who do not become pregnant can choose to progress to the next stage and continue identifying and resolving their issues by working directly with me.
Pathways to Pregnancy is a five-month follow-on program. It involves detailed consultations, investigations, and tailored interventions to address individual biological causes of infertility, such as hormonal imbalances, chronic immune dysregulation, or genetics. This program achieves a further 15% success rate approximately.
Fertility Breakthrough is an ongoing follow-on program for clients with stubborn issues that have resisted all previous attempts and need more time to resolve. It focuses on uncovering the remaining root causes and supporting clients by referral to a wider range of experts in the field of medicine, trauma resolution, psychology, relationship counselling, energy therapies and more. This program results in an additional 10% success rate.
Together, the three programs achieve a 75% overall success rate for clients who commit fully. While not everyone succeeds, the programs provide structured, supportive pathways to help women overcome even the most complex infertility challenges.
Q. Can’t I bypass the Foundations Of Fertility program and just go straight to the follow-on program Pathways to Pregnancy?
A. No, the three programs are deliberately sequential and build on each other. Hopefully you won’t need to go any further, but if you do please know that the second program relies on clients having completed the first one and laid the foundation because only then can I be sure of what we need to investigate next.
Q. Can’t I just get your book and follow that instead of getting the Foundations of Fertility program?
A. Sure, please do. My book Getting Pregnant When The Body Says No, outlines the evidence-based process I use with clients. I’ve done my best to lay it out coherently so that you can follow it on your own. The book tells how I think, why it works, and how you can go about it yourself, but the Foundations of Fertility program shows you how to do it step by step – that’s the difference.
Q. Are some women not suitable for the program?
A. Yes, the program is not suitable for women
- receiving treatment for medical conditions requiring several medications (polypharmacy)
- taking antidepressants or methotrexate
- who have cancer or are receiving cancer treatment
- are being treated for diabetes, reactive hypoglycaemia, bipolar disorder, or any eating disorder.
Q. Will I be able to communicate with you through the program?
A. Yes. You will be able to post questions to me or to the group using the program portal. I will respond to all questions regularly.
Unlock your fertility – Strengthen the vitality of your womb and ovaries – conceive a healthy baby naturally – with an Optimal Nutrition program designed by a Natural Fertility Consultant with 15 years experience
Change 5 habits an unlock the natural energy that brings vitality to your womb and ovaries.
Raise the odds of natural conception and lay the foundation for a healthy pregnancy, no matter what is causing your infertility.
Enroll now in the 4 month Online program and receive a complementary hard copy of my book.
Targeted nutrition therapy has the power to transform the lives of women with infertility in a relatively short period of time, yet it is vastly underappreciated.
Waste no more time worrying if you are doing all the right things to make a pregnancy happen – hand that burden over to me, let go of your doubt, and trust yourself to find a way.
Start the program today, try it for two days, if you decide it’s not for you – cancel it for a full refund, no questions asked.
