Improves Sperm and Egg Quality

Good sperm and egg quality are central to fertilization, and the health of the baby. After all, those two cells alone, begin to divide pretty rapidly after fertilization, and end up as the parent cells to every single cell in your baby's body.

When you think of it that way, doesn't it make you want to do every thing in your power to optimize the health of those two cells? 

Procedures like IVF and ICSI, try to merge the sperm and the egg together for fertilization, but they overlook the basic health of the two cells to begin with. Do you see how that can potentially be a problem? Overlooking the basic foundations to optimize the health of those two cells can have a serious impact on your fertility and the health of your pregnancy and baby. 

Optimizes Endometrial Lining/Thickness

Your endometrial lining is the blood layer that coats the inside of the uterus each month, in response to hormonal changes. Estrogen and progesterone are the two...

Are you ready for 10 incredible facts about Naturopathic infertility care? Naturopathic Doctors are the pioneers of functional medicine. Our approach works with the body to facilitate healing and optimize health. When it comes to fertility/infertility it is the ideal place to start. Unfortunately, many couples don't know it as an available option when they are considering their path forward. In this article I will outline 10 benefits of Naturopathic infertility care.

In the diagram above, there are five areas of healing opportunity before reaching medications, surgeries, and invasive procedures. This diagram is known as the Therapeutic Order, and it gracefully moves from least invasive to most invasive therapies. When you step into most conventional fertility practices these first five areas of opportunity are glazed over. This is not the fault of the practice or the doctors you see, but rather a problem with the system. Insurance requires certain criteria and...

It's a fact that fertility rates have been declining for almost a century, pretty consistently. Sperm is much easier to evaluate, and 50% of infertility is attributed to the male, so this article will focus on the declining sperm counts and quality. Keep in mind though, these same factors impact female fertility as well. I will discuss, in my opinion, three large contributing factors to decreasing sperm viability. These are: widespread dietary fads, specifically low fat diets, pesticides, and plastic contamination.

Reality of the Problem

Sperm counts in 1940 averaged 113 million/mL, and today (2019) that average is 49 million/mL. That is almost a 50% decline in about 80 years. This should be a serious public health concern, if you ask me, but it doesn't seem to be. Well, it's concerning to me, and if it continues this way, the future does not look very good. Another halving of the sperm count in 80 years would lead to the average being critically close to the low end range of...