It Starts with the Egg Fertility Cookbook: 100 Mediterranean-Inspired Recipes Paperback – October 1, 2020

I just start my fertility journey. I have a low egg count, AMH at 0.8 and I am 28 years old. I can't increase the number of eggs I have but I can improve the quality, I bought this book to help me do that. It has a lot of information, and I think it's a great starting point on figuring out the kinds of food that can help.

Wonderful and very knowledgeable Read especially if you and your spouse are on a journey with infertility. Definitely Recommend!

This book gives women a very comprehensive, evidence based information about fertility and non-medical ways to improve fertility and health in general.

This cookbook goes along with “it starts with the egg” book. The intro of the cookbook does have a little bit of information from the main book to help explain the premise. There are plenty of recipes in the book for a few full weeks worth of cooking. So far everything has been tasty and easy to make.

I learned a lot but I wish there were pictures. A cookbook without color and without pictures of the food takes out the fun in cooking from a cookbook. Maybe when I cook the meals or bake, I'll take a picture and put it in the book.

Doing IVF. Did two rounds and no euploid (normal) embryos. Did everything in this book and third time got two healthy embryos against all odds for mt age.My doc thinks it’s a fluke, but I’m a believer

The book begins with 6 chapters (55 pages or so) of guidelines and advice that are quite valuable, although I am not sure how much is new information versus just rehashed content from It Starts With The Egg.I was mainly looking forward to the recipes, especially as they're called "Mediterranean diet inspired." My husband's doctor has 'prescribed' him a Mediterranean diet for reasons unrelated to TTC, so we were trying to eat that way anyway, but now we are also TTC... I saw this book and it seemed perfect. I am trying to stick to the guidelines/principles that make the Mediterranean diet so healthy without necessarily limiting us to dishes of Mediterranean origin (for example, lots of Asian foods, especially from Blue Zones in that part of the world, also fit in just fine!), so I thought this book may have some gems. I was hoping to find dishes of non-Mediterranean origin with thoughtful edits to make them conform to the diet's guidelines better than they might usually do.Alas, the recipes seem to have just been thrown together without any kitchen testing. One soup recipe states it makes 2-4 servings, but it calls for an entire rotisserie chicken and only 2 cups of liquid? There were also the usual veggie suspects involved, but I'm skeptical that 1/4 rotisserie chicken and 4oz liquid in a bowl (plus veggies) would be wet enough to call 'soup'. As another review noted, there's a salmon katsu recipe that fails to include a katsu sauce: basically just breaded salmon. The book/diet encourages limiting red meat, yet the breakfast section includes a recipe for ground beef breakfast sausage (1tsp dried sage and 1/4tsp marjoram hardly seems adequate for 2lbs ground beef, and that's basically the whole recipe) I would prefer more inspo for healthier / more diet-aligned things to make the rest of the time, rather than a lackluster sausage recipe that I'd almost consider to be a "cheat" meal. If I'm going to have my red meat for the week, I'm at least going to season it.There are definitely some recipes included that don't have these issues, but it really put a taste in my mouth that this was cobbled together quickly as a cash-grab follow-up to the main book's (deserved, as far as I can tell) success.

I love this book. The diet is my favorite now. I’m trying to eat as much as it recommends for a healthy diet and I think I will keep it even after IVF and pregnancy.