Acupuncture can be an invaluable tool to help promote conception and pregnancy.
Whether you have just started to plan the family of your future, or you have been trying to conceive for some time, Traditional Chinese Medicine can help support and nurture your body to promote fertility and a healthy pregnancy.
Traditional Chinese Medicine has enhanced fertility for thousands of years. Because acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can strongly influence the reproductive and endocrine systems, it can help address a wide variety of women’s health concerns that may hinder fertility.
Infertility is defined as the biological inability of a man or a woman to contribute to conception, but very few women are truly infertile. Most women who have been given a diagnosis of “infertility” are merely out of balance.
Some of these imbalances are caused by improper lifestyle, constitutional tendencies, diet, and stress and all can result in decreased fertility.
At The Nest, we utilize acupuncture, herbs, and diet therapy to improve fertility by promoting healthier and more responsive uterus and ovaries. By incorporating all aspects of Chinese Medicine, our practitioners help women strengthen and rebalance their body to promote and maintain a healthy pregnancy.
Acupuncture is able to increase the chances of pregnancy through natural conception, IVF, IUI, and other ARTs 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 and promote overall health of the body
- Reduce stress
- Improve the absorption of nutrients and maintain ideal weight
- Facilitate relaxation
- Improve the quality of sleep
- Have NO side effects – does not introduce toxicity to you and your baby
We can significantly increase your chances of conception if your infertility is due to:
- Amenorrhea
- Elevated FSH
- Endometriosis
- Irregular and annovulatory menstrual cycles
- Luteal phase defect (LPD)
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Premature ovarian failure (POF)
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
- Stress
- Poor egg quality
- Advanced maternal age
- Thin, unresponsive endometrium
Research:
- Acupuncture has numerous potential fertility-boosting benefits according to New York Weill Cornell physician-scientists.
[Cornell Chronicle Online] - Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysis.
[BMJ: British Medical Journal] - Analysis: Acupuncture may help conception.
[CNN/The Associated Press]