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About Acupuncture for Fertility

Enhancing Your Bodies Natural Reproductive Ability

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• Radiant Fertility Acupuncture offers a comprehensive approach to support and enhance the body's natural potential for healthy childbearing.  

 

• The use of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicinal formulas for enhancing fertility originated over 2,500 years ago making it the oldest continuously used system of medicine in the world. It is all natural, free of drugs, hormones and steroids and has been proven safe and effective for all that time. 

pregnant woman
IVF Treatments

Benefits of Acupuncture to Support IVF Treatments

 

• A recent mega study analysis conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine reviewed numerous trials conducted on a total of over 1,300 women who received acupuncture in conjunction with their IVF treatments. These studies showed  a 65% increase in establishment of pregnancy, an 87% increase in continuing pregnancy and a 91% increase in live births. 


• Acupuncture can help everything your fertility doctor does for you work better with less side effects and stress associated with the IVF process.  We work very closely with the Reproductive Centers in the South Bay to fully coordinate your care with IVF support treatments both in our office and at the IVF center on the day of your embryo transfer (depending on current covid restrictions)

Benefits of Acupuncture for Enhancing Fertility

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Contemporary research has confirmed that acupuncture may have the following positive effects to enhance fertility:

 

• Increases relaxation and reduces anxiety, stress and the related hormones that can significantly decrease fertility

 

• Helps stimulate and normalize the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis to support optimal functioning of the reproductive system

 

• Normalizes the hormone and endocrine systems that regulate ovulation

 

• Helps nourish the health of the ovaries and improves development of the follicles

 

• Increases the chances of conception and decreases the chance of miscarriage

 

• Increases blood flow to the uterus and helps to increase the thickness of the uterine lining which improves the chances of a success implantation

 

• Improves the quality of semen, especially morphology and motility factors, to help create better quality and quantity of embryos

Benefits of Acupuncture for Enhancing Fertility

Conditions Treated

 

These positive effects may be helpful in the treatment of the following conditions

that contribute to diminished fertility:

  • PCOS

  • Unexplained fertility

  • High FSH, poor responder

  • Luteal phase defect

  • Endometriosis

  • Advanced maternal age

  • Uterine fibroids

  • Male Factor

  • Recurrent miscarriage

  • Hormonal imbalances

  • Anovulation

  • Ovarian Cysts

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