Acupuncture for Fertility: Can It Help You Get Pregnant?
For those facing fertility challenges, the path to parenthood can be overwhelming and filled with uncertainty. Amid medical treatments and lifestyle adjustments, many individuals seek
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What Every IVF Patient Can Do to Optimize Their Outcomes
If you’re going through an IVF (in-vitro fertilization) journey or considering one, you know just how badly you want everything to go well. With the
7 Tips to Improve Egg Quality for Pregnancy and IVF
Whether you’re deep into an IVF journey, or you’re just starting to try to conceive, egg quality is crucial for the health of your future
Sperm Quality: Why It Matters and How to Improve It
We’ve noticed lots of buzz recently around the topic of “advanced paternal age” (or APA). For so many years, the focus has been squarely on fertility outcomes
Nurturing the Garden: How Chinese Medicine Can Support Fertility, Pregnancy and Beyond
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda have longstanding traditions of supporting women in all stages of motherhood: pre-conception care, every phase of pregnancy, and post-partum care. I’d like to share some insights from my clinical practice as well as some time-tested wisdom, to explain how these ancient modalities can supplement and enhance the care provided by an MD or a Licensed Midwife.
Research Shows How Acupuncture Doubles Chance of Having a Baby with IVF
At Flourish Integrative Health, we see great success with a patient’s IVF when combined with Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. A new study from the UK shows that rates of success with IVF were twice as high among women who worked with acupuncture. There is no doubt that when people are given acupuncture it can feel like an extra dimension of support. “Fertility treatment is stressful and it can be quite helpful to have a therapy which relaxes them.”