Blog Posts in April, 2022

Be careful New Yorkers....Covid is back and on the rise! COVID-19 Again the Third-Leading Cause of US Deaths

April 25, 2022 COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the United States in 2021 for the second straight year, with only heart disease and cancer causing more deaths, the CDC said Friday. About 693,000 people died of heart disease in 2021, with 605,000 dying of cancer and 415,000 of COVID, the CDC said, citing provisional data that might be updated later. Unintentional injuries were the ...

Acupuncture improves the pregnancy rate of women with PCOS

Objective: To observe the effect of acupuncture on endometrium and pregnancy outcomes in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) infertility undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET). Methods: Eighty-three patients were randomly assigned to observation group (40 cases) and control group (43 cases) according to the random numbers generated by SPSS software. The patients of ...

Vitamin D and Fertility: 5 Critical Things to Know

When you’re trying to conceive, you want to do everything you can to support your fertility and help achieve your dream of growing your family. Sometimes, that may include incorporating certain fertility-focused nutrients into your daily routine. Many fertility professionals have vitamin D and fertility on their radar – and for good reason. While healthy vitamin D levels are important for your ...

Why can diets lead to infertility?

Diets should be taken very carefully, because sometimes they can lead to unpleasant consequences, immunologist Ludmila Goncharova (Russia) says. According to her, it is the hormonal system that controls reproductive function in a woman's body. Rigid diets, when the body is deprived of most of the vitamins and minerals it needs, affect not only the appearance of a woman: the hormonal background ...

Acupuncture Enhances Fertility Treatment, Lowers Adverse Effects

Acupuncture boosts the efficaciousness of fertility treatments. Three independent studies confirm that acupuncture increases positive patient outcome rates. Two studies find acupuncture effective for increasing the the efficacy of clomifene for the treatment of infertility due to ovulatory dysfunction. Another study finds acupuncture effective for reducing the adverse effects caused by ...

Doctor Berkley is the most compassionate and supportive doctor I have ever worked with.

Doctor Berkley is the most compassionate and supportive doctor I have ever worked with. He truly cares about supporting his patients and doing whatever he can to get the desired outcome. My husband and I were struggling to conceive when we first met with Doctor Berkley. Our initial appointment was nearly two hours of him listening to our concerns and discussing our medical history. He took the ...

Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysis

Affiliations expand PMID: 18258932 PMCID: PMC2265327 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39471.430451.BE Abstract Objective: To evaluate whether acupuncture improves rates of pregnancy and live birth when used as an adjuvant treatment to embryo transfer in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources: Medline, Cochrane Central, Embase, Chinese Biomedical ...

Acupuncture Treatment for Fertility

Jihe Zhu , 1 Blagica Arsovska , 1, 2 and Kristina Kozovska 1, * Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract BACKGROUND: Infertility is considered an inability to conceive in a sexually active couple who are trying to get pregnant for one year. About 8-12% of the couples in the world are facing ...

Infertility and Your Emotional Wellbeing

How Alternative Modalities Help! We have come a long way in bringing awareness to what a diagnosis of infertility is but we have more work to do about creating space for an open and accepting dialogue about infertility as a mind/body state of being. Way back when, when I received my diagnosis, I was a jumbled mess of a woman trying to create a family and bear a child. It shifted and changed my ...

Want a Baby?

What your reproductive endocrinologist can do: 1. Assess the cause of your infertility. 2. Create a correct IVF protocol. 3. Prescribe medication to promote the development of your follicles. 4. Retrieve eggs from the follicles. 5. Fertilize with sperm. 6. Transfer an embryo. What your fertility-acupuncturist can do: 1. Reduce your stress. 2. Improve the quality of your lining. 3. Improve the ...

Acupuncture Normalizes Hormones, Ups Pregnancy Rates

Researchers document that acupuncture produces higher pregnancy rates than fertility medications for women with hyperprolactinemia (HPL). Acupuncture produces a higher rate of pregnancies than fertility medications with significantly less adverse effects. In a controlled clinical trial, researchers document that acupuncture outperforms bromocriptine and bromocriptine plus clomiphene for the ...

Young Woman with Severe Endometriosis Finds Pain Relief and a Solution to Infertility With Acupuncture

Acupuncture , Fertility , IVF Success found through combination of acupuncture and IVF! Heather Huddleston is a young woman who has struggled with severe endometriosis since puberty. At the age of 19, she had her first of many surgeries. It was so extreme that the surgeon told her she would never have children—he had removed 2/3 of one ovary and 7/8 of the other. Drugs and surgery were the ...