Naturopathic Medicine’s approach to improving fertility focuses on establishing healthy hormone balance for both partners, minimizing the body’s reaction to stress, ensuring optimal nutritional status for the mother-to-be, establishing a healthy exercise routine, and teaching fertility awareness techniques to better understand the optimal fertile times in a woman’s cycle.
The Foresight Study, conducted in England, shows the effects that proper preconception care has on fertility. Out of 300 couples who had previously been declared “infertile”, over 89% were pregnant within 2 years, without the assistance of IUI or other similar fertility interventions.
Naturopathic doctors are highly trained in both the Western and Eastern medical systems. Naturopathic Doctors have the ability to integrate a western diagnosis with nutrition, exercise, herbal medicine, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, as well as counseling and stress management techniques.
A study by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University to determine the impact of nutritional supplements containing vitex, green tea, vitamins, and minerals on female fertility found that the supplement group helped improve women’s menstrual cycles. Herbal medicine can also be used to regulate menstrual cycles, normalize hormones, maintain a pregnancy, prevent miscarriage, improve sperm quality and help with stress. Herbs can be very effective but like any therapy may have side effects or drug interactions. For this reason it is recommended that you consult a licensed Naturopathic Doctor.
It is well known that infertility causes stress, and stress reduction may, in turn, improve fertility. Stress may lead to the release of hormones and influence mechanisms responsible for a normal ovulatory menstrual cycle through its impact on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. Many Naturopathic Therapies successfully address stress. Naturopathic Medicine also addresses environmental toxicity and its potential impact on fertility.
With Naturopathic Fertility Services from Dr. Naumes, you will learn more about how to positively impact nutrition, body composition and environmental exposure to substances that can decrease fertility and harm a developing baby for both partners. Your family will benefit from the simple, non-invasive, cost-effective tools that naturopathic medicine has to offer.
References:
1. http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/
2. Al-Inany, H. (n.d). Issues of bioequivalence and cost (vol 78, pg 438, 2002). Fertility And Sterility, 78(6), 1356.
