Pam Schoenfeld Has Been Writing About Vitamin A for a Decade

In 2016, Pam Schoenfeld called vitamin A "The Scarlet Nutrient." In the Winter 2025 issue, she began a column on it, All About Vitamin A. Both ran in Wise Traditions, the Weston A. Price Foundation's journal.

Now she brings that subject to the Save the Uterus Club.

Who is Pam Schoenfeld?

Pam Schoenfeld, MS, RD, LDN, is a registered dietitian in Raleigh, North Carolina. Women and Family Nutrition is her own practice there. In the words of her site, the practice specializes in "restorative reproductive nutrition and prenatal nutrition care."

The listed specialties run from fertility and pregnancy to lactation, children's health and PCOS. PCOS now carries a new official name, PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome). Her site also says she teaches women how nutrition can improve their reproductive health, and their partners' as well.

A registered dietitian since about 2009, she has focused on women's reproductive nutrition in Raleigh since about 2016. Her master's degree in nutrition is from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The University of Maryland awarded her bachelor's degree in nutrition research. Ulysses Press published her book, The Collagen Diet, in 2018.

How did Pam Schoenfeld come to nutrition?

Her own health led her there. From her teens, her site says, she had irregular periods, acne and problems with hair growth. A PCOS diagnosis followed in her mid-30s.

At the time, she was eating mostly plant-based. Then, in her words, she "discovered the power of nourishing ancestral diets" and changed her own diet radically. Mid-career, she went back to school, earned her master's degree and became a registered dietitian.

What has Pam Schoenfeld written about vitamin A?

Vitamin A runs through much of her published work. Her Wise Traditions articles on it include "Vitamin A: The Scarlet Nutrient" in 2016 and "Vitamin A-mazing" in 2020. The first pieces in her column covered vitamin A during breastfeeding and vitamin A in children's growth and development. Her article on fertility, "Fixing Your Fertility: The Answer Could Be Vitamin A," also ran in Wise Traditions. She has also discussed vitamin A and fertility on the Foundation's podcast.

The National Nutrition Standard symposium listed her September 2026 session, "Vitamin A: Critical for Female Reproduction." The listing says the vitamin's role in human reproduction is "widely underappreciated by conventional medicine, including fertility medicine."

Vitamin A comes in two forms. Preformed vitamin A comes from animal foods. Plants supply carotenoids such as beta-carotene, which the body can convert, a 2022 Cochrane review notes. One safety point holds in any discussion of vitamin A and pregnancy. High doses of preformed vitamin A can cause birth defects. Beta-carotene, the plant form, has not been linked to vitamin A toxicity. Decisions about vitamin A supplements before or during pregnancy belong with a clinician.

Why is Pam Schoenfeld speaking to the Save the Uterus Club?

Restorative reproductive medicine looks at the whole person, and at both partners, when it searches for a cause. Nutrition belongs in that search. Pam has built her practice around nutrition for reproductive health, and her site uses the word restorative to describe it. That overlap is why I asked her to speak.

Vitamin A is a fitting subject for the club, because it helps build a baby's eyes, heart and lungs. Low levels in pregnancy are linked with night blindness and anemia in the mother. For men, higher carotenoid intake goes with better sperm motility.

She will cover the main points, share her approach, and bring her references for anyone who wants to read further. She speaks for her own work.

How do I join Pam Schoenfeld's vitamin A talk?

Pam joins the Save the Uterus Club live online on Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 3 PM Eastern, with her talk "Vitamin A: Critical for Female Fertility." The session is for club members. Members, join the session here.

The Save the Uterus Club is RRM Academy's community. Join the club for the full session library. Save the Uterus Club sessions are education. Members come to understand the research and take it to their own care teams.

Come curious. Bring your partner if you are planning a family together, and take what you learn to your own clinician.