Fertility/Infertility

Diet and Fertility

September 15, 2011

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 [...]

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Acupuncture for Unexplained Infertility

July 11, 2011

Can acupuncture help unexplained infertility? The answer is yes, it can help. Let’s look at what it means to have a diagnosis of unexplained infertility. It simply means that your medical doctors don’t have a definite answer as to why you can’t get pregnant. You have been through all the tests and everything is fine, [...]

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How to Get Pregnant Quickly

May 4, 2011

I want to get pregnant quickly. I have heard women say this often enough. But how to do it? One of the best ways to get pregnant quickly is to know when you are ovulating. You can do this either with an ovulation predictor kit or with a basal body temperature chart (BBT chart) or [...]

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Fertility Acupuncture and IVF

April 12, 2011

Many fertility clinics are now embracing the use of acupuncture as an adjunct to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies. Why would they do this? Because of the increased success rate of those procedures when acupuncture treatments are used concurrent with treatment. A large well designed German study showed [...]

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Does High Stress Equal Infertility

February 14, 2011

Many of my patients already suspect that stress is a factor in their fertility and their ability to get pregnant. Now it looks like there is real evidence  that this is indeed the case. British scientists have found evidence of this from the saliva samples of 400 fertile aged women.  The samples measured alpha-amylase, an [...]

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