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Ovia Health has recommendations for potential parents to help keep their bodies healthy. This may boost fertility and chances to conceive. Use Ovia Fertility to track your fertile window and plan.

Women interviewing healthcare providers to decide if they are responsible.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

When not to settle: choosing the healthcare provider who is responsible

A couple learning how to have better sex by being more affectionate and touching each other's faces in bed.

Have better sex by connecting with yourself and your partner 

A woman who knows how much sleep she needs taking a day time nap in bed.

Do you know how much sleep is enough…or too much?

Woman in bed trying to increase her deep sleep by reading and drinking tea.

Bedtime goodies that may help you boost that deep sleep already

A woman who understands the importance of sleep taking a day time nap in her bed.

Restful nights can make happy days: Are you getting enough sleep?

A couple's feet while they lay in bed and talk about the importance of consent.

Consent: What is it and why is it so important?

This image represents a person talking about sex with their partner while laying in bed.

Learn to communicate better in the bedroom and really connect

A couple laughing and cuddling in bed to represent having consent for sex.

The sexy side of consent: Learn to talk about it

A person checking their phone while also using her laptop to research information about the BRCA gene.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Learn about the BRCA gene and why it’s important

A person talking on their phone about their abnormal Pap smear results.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Abnormal pap smears: Everything you need to know

A person jogging during their cardio routine.

Exercise and movement

Cardio helps with your health: Great reasons to start a routine

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Exercise and movement

A beginner’s guide to exercise: starting at square one

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Nutrition

It’s not easy getting greens: Six ways to get more vegetables in your life

A woman looking down at her drink wondering whether there are signs of an unhealthy relationship with her partner.

Feeling unsafe? Recognize these unsafe behaviors

A graphic of a leaf growing to represent the Ovia Fertility application.

How to use Ovia Fertility

How Ovia can help you be your healthiest, happiest self

Ovarian egg traveling in fallopian tubes during ovulation representing when you ovulate.

Learn about when you ovulate: One egg’s epic journey

A doctor talking to their patient about what to expect from a future Pap smear with a clipboard in their hand.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

Are you getting a Pap smear? Here’s the process

A person traveling checking their map to represent the question: 'how does travel affect ovulation?'

Reproductive health | Ovulation

When your cycle’s out of sync: how travel can affect ovulation

Three people talking and getting ready to go for a run as part of their exercise routine.

Exercise and movement

How to start an exercise routine – and stick with it

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Helpful facts about migraines

How to use Ovia Fertility

Getting started with Ovia: Your quick start guide

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What to do about increased or nervous energy

Image of a plate of food containing rice, tomatoes and fish.

Nutrition

From food pyramids to “MyPlate”: USDA food guides and what they mean for you

People shopping for oil at the grocery store.

Oils are awesome: From olive to argan, the best oils you didn’t realize

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Nutrition

So you’ve decided to give up dairy…

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What’s the deal with gluten?

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Nutrition

Seafood and mercury levels: What you should know

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Nutrition

Good for you or good for nothing? What you should know about taking a multivitamin

Image of a persons reproductive eggs in a microscope.

Trying to conceive (TTC) | Preconception planning

Pros and cons of freezing your eggs

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Nutrition

Six meals to boost your greens

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Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Menstrual cycle length: Just what’s normal? 

A pile of low-dose aspirin.

Low-dose aspirin: What’s the deal?

A person staring off in to the distance wondering if a past abortion affect pregnancy

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Future pregnancy with past abortion history

A person stretching in the middle of their run.

Exercise and movement

How important is stretching…or is it?

A person using a big sun hat as protection while they sit outside on a sunny day.

General health

Tips to keep yourself safe from sun damage

A person checking their watch while holding their phone.

Exercise and movement

Obvious and not-so-obvious benefits of exercise

Woman getting a mammogram screening from her doctor.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Understand your mammogram screening

A person using their phone to track moods when trying to conceive

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your moods with Ovia

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Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Managing your period as a trans, genderqueer, or non-binary person

A person working from home on a laptop.

Work & life harmony

Your new WFH guide: How to work from home the right way

A person holding the area near their uterus to represent endometriosis.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Endometriosis

Graphic of a person's uterus to represent the menstrual period.

Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

You do uterus: How to be kind to yourself during your period

A person sitting with their hands clasped wondering where to get an abortion.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

Where can I access an abortion clinic?

A graphic of a drop on an ovulation test to represent the importance of tracking your ovulation test with Ovia Fertility.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your ovulation tests with Ovia

A thermometer to indicate tracking basal body temperature.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your basal body temperature with Ovia

A bed to represent how sleep and fertility are connected.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your sleep with Ovia

A healthy salad with dressing on it.

Nutrition

Nutritious salad dressing options

Fish, nuts, and seeds to represent foods in a diet that contain omega 3 and 6.

Nutrition

Are you getting your omegas? 

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Go green: Six ways to work more greens into your diet

Image of avocados, nuts, and fish, representing foods that contain healthy fats.

Nutrition

The good, the bad, the misunderstood: What you need to know about fats

A plate of salad with avocado, pomegranate, and jicama salad with creamy avocado dressing.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: avocado, pomegranate, and jicama salad with creamy avocado dressing

Person circling a day on the calendar with a pink marker to represent how to track your period.

When’s your period? How to track yours with Ovia, and how we predict when it will come next

A person using the Ovia Fertility tracker on their cellphone device.

How to use Ovia Fertility

From cervical fluid to sleep: How tracking your body’s signs and symptoms can identify when you ovulate

Two plates of cauliflower rice with vegitables.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: light cauliflower fried ‘rice’

Winter spinach salad in a bowl.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: winter spinach salad with pomegranate, apple, and quinoa

A bowl of vegetarian lasagna with a spoon next to it, ready to eat.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: vegetarian lasagna soup with zucchini and mushrooms

Vegetables tomato and avocado arranged in a plate to help them look tasty.

Nutrition

Five vegetables for people who hate vegetables

Plate of tomato, basil, and garlic bruschetta from the article recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: classic tomato, basil, and garlic bruschetta

A tray of almond butter chocolate chip cookies.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: almond butter chocolate chunk cookies

A bowl of curried carrot soup with garlic bread next to it.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: curried carrot shorba

A plate of cucumber tomato salad.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: cucumber salad with white wine vinaigrette

A girl sitting down outside and writing in a notebook.

Reproductive health | Menstruation

The important details about the menstrual cycle and what it means to be irregular

Chickpeas in a small container that can be a salad topping or eaten alone as a snack.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: roasted chipotle, lime, and garlic chickpeas

A dish of zucchini tomato tian with three full tomatoes sitting next to it.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: zucchini tomato tian with pine nuts

A healthy recipe of lamb, quinoa, and lentils, that can help boost fertility.

Fertility recipes: Lamb koftas with date lentil quinoa and yogurt coconut creamed spinach

A kale salad made from a recipe, the salad is on a plate with a fork on it.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: kale salad with pickled pumpkin, cilantro, and lime

A container of healthy truffle balls from the article's recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: avocado almond joy truffles

A red plate of sesame beef and stir fry.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: sesame beef and vegetable stir fry with soy and ginger 

Image of the feet of several people walking on a treadmill.

Exercise and movement

Five exercise myths busted

A bowl of lentils and kale with black rice and spices.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: moroccan spiced lentils with kale and black rice 

Several gluten free chocolate chip cookies.

Trying to conceive (TTC) | Increase fertility

Fertility recipes: gluten-free chocolate chip cookies

A blue bowl of roasted carrot soup.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: garlicky roasted carrot soup

Scientist examining a patient's blood sample in a lab.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

What you should know about the Zika virus

A health symbol to represent tracking physical symptoms of ovulation with Ovia Health.

Aches, cramps, and swollen breasts: why you should track your physical symptoms

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Reproductive health | Menstruation

Can my diet help prevent PMS? Here are the details

A person holding an egg meant to represent an egg donation for someone trying to get pregnant.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Egg donation: Thinking it through

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Change in vaginal discharge: What it means

Table with several creme brûlée desserts made from healthy ingredients and an easy recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: Crème brulee

A person looking up signs of PCOS on their cellphone.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Could I have PCOS?

A person checking their heart rate on their watch while listening to music on their headphones.

Exercise and movement

How much exercise is too much?

Four egg shells.

Trying to conceive (TTC) | Preconception health

What is anovulation?

A person laughing in a red and white stripped room.

Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Are my periods irregular?

Homemade chicken noodle soup made from a recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chicken noodle soup

Pumpkin blueberry muffins in the oven.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: pumpkin blueberry muffins

A mediterranean pasta made from a recipe

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: mediterranean pasta

A bowl of apple and pumpkin oatmeal.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: apple and pumpkin oatmeal

Banana and berry oatmeal made from a recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: good, old fashioned, morning oatmeal

A plate of stir fry brussel sprouts with garlic.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: stir fried garlic brussel sprouts

A bowl of Caramelized onion hummus.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: caramelized onion hummus

A kale and cabbage salad with lemon.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: kale and cabbage salad

A crock pot quinoa and veggie stew.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: crock pot quinoa and veggie stew

A plate of chicken red Thai curry next to a drink.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chicken red Thai curry

A sweet potato burger with a bun falling off the side of it on a white plate .

Fertility recipes: simple and sweet potato burgers

A bowl of sweet potato soup with croutons made from this recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: sweet potato soup and cheese croutons

A bowl of butternut squash from this recipe with oranges next to the bowl on the table.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: butternut squash barley risotto

Red plate with salmon and asparagus made from this salmon en papillote recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: salmon en papillote

A plate of roasted cauliflower salad next to a fork.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: roasted cauliflower salad

Two cups of almond butter granola from a recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: almond butter granola

Two stuffed delicata squash on a plate from a recipe.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: stuffed delicata squash

A mint, limeade mocktail in a clear glass with ice in it.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: mint limeade mocktail

A plate of chocolate gingerbread brownies.

Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chocolate gingerbread brownies

A person on their laptop and cellphone looking up information on how to track fertility at their proliferative phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the proliferative phase

A person looking up on their phone how to track their menstrual phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the menstrual phase

Woman, seated on kitchen counter, looks at her phone

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

PCOS

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Mental health

Who gets mood swings and why

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Forgetfulness: Learn the reasons behind it

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The meaning behind dark urine

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Clumsiness: Is it just having an “off” day?

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Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Helpful information about vaginal spotting or bleeding

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Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Bloating: Helpful information and tips

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Reproductive health | Sex and intimacy

Painful intercourse: Causes and prevention

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Trying to conceive (TTC) | Pregnancy loss

Surgical treatment options for early pregnancy loss

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Trying to conceive (TTC) | Pregnancy loss

Nonsurgical options for early pregnancy loss

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Oily hair: What you should know

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Reproductive health

Nasal congestion

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Why the metallic taste and what it means

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Leg cramps: Everything you need to know

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Helpful information about itchy hands

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Learn more about itchy feet

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Trying to conceive (TTC) | Fertility signs

Intense lower back pain: What you should know

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Infrequent urination: What causes it and can it be avoided?

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Increased thirst: Do you need to drink more water?

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What really causes hiccups?

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Hemorrhoids: What you should know

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Smelling really good lately? Here’s why your body might be doing it

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Reasons why heavy vaginal bleeding might be occurring

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

What is acid reflux?

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Causes for green or yellow vaginal discharge

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Experiencing frequent infections? What your body might be trying to say

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Fever: Why your temperature goes up

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Fainting 101: Why does it happen?

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Why you might have a flushed face

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The reasons behind excessive sweating

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Cloudy or strong-smelling urine: Is it something to worry about?

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Here’s why you might be feeling abdominal or pelvic cramping