Growing numbers of women and couples have helped their chances of getting pregnant and maintaining a healthy pregnancy by adhering to the tenets of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture can be an invaluable tool to help promote conception and pregnancy. Laura is able to help women and couples wherever they may be along the path of fertility concerns. She utilizes acupuncture, herbs, and diet therapy to bring the body into balance and improve fertility by promoting healthier and more responsive uterus and ovaries. Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine is also a great complement to Western Fertility treatments. Treatments can help to prepare the body for treatments, improve egg quality, encourage endometrial lining and mediate the side effects of medications.
The roller coaster ups and downs of fertility difficulties can be very exhausting and stressful. Psychological stress can have a negative impact on individuals facing fertility problems, as stress hormones can cause detrimental effects on mechanisms responsible for a normal ovulatory cycle. Fortunately, acupuncture is very successful in reducing stress and anxiety by way of releasing beta-endorphins and by calming the sympathetic nervous system, therefore redirecting blood back to the uterus, ovaries and adrenals.
According to the National Infertility Association, 35 to 40% 0f infertility cases are due to male factor problems. Many Male Factor Fertility problems can also be helped with acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Regular acupuncture can lead to a statistical increase in the number of sperm as well as equally significant reductions in structural defects of sperm.
Acupuncture is able to increase the chances of pregnancy through natural conception, IUI, IVF and other ART’s because it has been clinically shown to:
The roller coaster ups and downs of fertility difficulties can be very exhausting and stressful. Psychological stress can have a negative impact on individuals facing fertility problems, as stress hormones can cause detrimental effects on mechanisms responsible for a normal ovulatory cycle. Fortunately, acupuncture is very successful in reducing stress and anxiety by way of releasing beta-endorphins and by calming the sympathetic nervous system, therefore redirecting blood back to the uterus, ovaries and adrenals.
According to the National Infertility Association, 35 to 40% 0f infertility cases are due to male factor problems. Many Male Factor Fertility problems can also be helped with acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Regular acupuncture can lead to a statistical increase in the number of sperm as well as equally significant reductions in structural defects of sperm.
Acupuncture is able to increase the chances of pregnancy through natural conception, IUI, IVF and other ART’s because it has been clinically shown to:
- Regulate and stabilize hormone levels
- Help produce more follicles
- Increase blood flow to the uterus and ovaries
- Thicken the endometrial lining
- Reduce the chance of miscarriage
- Strengthen the immune system
- Reduce stress and facilitate relaxation
- Improve the quality of sleep
- Have no side effects nor toxicity for potentially pregnant woman or her baby
- Help produce more follicles
- Increase blood flow to the uterus and ovaries
- Thicken the endometrial lining
- Reduce the chance of miscarriage
- Strengthen the immune system
- Reduce stress and facilitate relaxation
- Improve the quality of sleep
- Have no side effects nor toxicity for potentially pregnant woman or her baby
Acupuncture can significantly increase your chances of conception if your fertility problems are due to:
- Poor egg quality
- Amenorrhea
- Elevated FSH
- Stress
- Endometriosis
- Irregular and anovulatory cycles
- Luteal phase defect
- Premature ovarian failure
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Advanced maternal age
- Thin, unresponsive endometrium