Many of the women I work with in my practice invest a lot in themselves in order to get pregnant. They get acupuncture, take herbs, take supplements including a good prenatal vitamin and they follow my dietary advice; often depriving themselves of their favorite foods and beverages.They make many sacrifices in order to get pregnant…Continue reading Acupuncture and Postpartum Recovery
Category: Fertility/Infertility
Boost Your Fertility and Move Energy
In the last newsletter we talked about one aspect of the mind-body connection to fertility. This concerned how our thoughts control our stress response and how our body chemistry responds to what we think. If you missed it check it out here. This week I want to give you a tool that will help you…Continue reading Boost Your Fertility and Move Energy
Fertility and The Mind
How big a role do your thoughts have on your fertility? Today’s blog will begin a series on the mind-body connection to fertility and your ability to get pregnant. Your ability to get pregnant depends on many things, your age, your physical health, your hormone balance, your level of stress and yes often times your…Continue reading Fertility and The Mind
How Quickly Can You Overcome Infertility and Get Pregnant
Recently I had a patient who came to increase her fertility in the hopes of getting pregnant more quickly. And guess what, after 5 weeks of treatments she became pregnant! She responded very well to treatment, was basically a healthy woman and voila! Not everyone responds this quickly, although I have had others; but what…Continue reading How Quickly Can You Overcome Infertility and Get Pregnant
Increase Fertility and Find Menopause Relief With These Foods
Fall and winter are the perfect times to eat your roots! Eating seasonally is one of the healthiest ways to get fresh vitamin and mineral rich nutrients from your food. Plus if you are a woman they are doubly beneficial. It’s time to eat those phytoestrogenic root veggies! Eating a largely plant based diet can…Continue reading Increase Fertility and Find Menopause Relief With These Foods
Acupuncture for Infertility
Acupuncture has been used to treat infertility for millenia in China, and it has gained a lot of attention in the United States in recent years. Many women are turning to acupuncture for a cost effective solution before trying other more costly, and invasive approaches such as IVF. Many women turn to acupuncture because it…Continue reading Acupuncture for Infertility
Can You Avoid Fibroids?
Recently I have been plagued by the numbers of women coming to me with uterine fibroids. It is distressing to me and to the women patients that must deal with them. Why are so many women increasingly suffering with this? Research shows that up to 70% of women may be affected by fibroids at some…Continue reading Can You Avoid Fibroids?
Dealing With Infertility
If you want to jump start your fertility and you feel like time is against you then you need to read this. One of the biggest hurdles to better fertility is the stress level that accompanies your challenge. The longer you have suffered infertility likely the higher your stress level is. Stress is the enemy…Continue reading Dealing With Infertility
Why Do Some Women Get Pregnant Easily and Others Don’t?
This is what we all strive to know. Some women have problems with conception for structural reasons like fibroids, uterine polyps, endometriosis, ovarian cysts or scarring of the fallopian tubes from infection. Some of these problems can be taken care of with Chinese Medicine, some may require surgery, others may need the assistance of IVF…Continue reading Why Do Some Women Get Pregnant Easily and Others Don’t?
Diet and Fertility
Can diet affect your fertility? A large group of nurses over many years kept track of their diet and activities in a research project called The Nurses Health Study. Subsequent researches took this information and analyzed it in an attempt to discover what foods contributed to their fertility. They discovered that diet and fertility are…Continue reading Diet and Fertility