Treating Infertility with Acupuncture

Have you started your pregnancy journey super excited, ready to become a parent? Has that excitement slowly turned to confusion, frustration, stress, and sorrow? You may have done everything you can: change your diet, stopped birth control, kept up to date with a menstrual tracker, and begun IVF and still nothing is working. Maybe it’s time we help you consider acupuncture to your routine. 

Infertility is broadly defined as the inability to get pregnant after trying for at least a year. Causes of infertility may include hormone imbalances in both men and women, ovulatory problems, and endometriosis. In 2023, about 11% of women and 9% of men in America suffered infertility. In Chinese Medicine and Five Element, acupuncture can play an important role in helping you conceive. The function of acupuncture is to alleviate and regulate hormone dysfunction, stress levels, and menstrual issues. By doing so, prospects of fertility can be significantly improved. 

People swear by the effects of acupuncture on their fertility journey. It’s a safe, effective, holistic treatment that can be performed with no issue with any other mediums and therapies. By regulating your qi and promoting energy and blood to flow through the meridians of your body, the acupuncture needles (thin, hair-like needles that target your qi like lightning rods to get it flowing better) target reproductive organs. This regulates the menstrual cycle, improves blood flow, increases sperm motility, creation, and function, and can decrease anxiety and stress. 

That last benefit is arguably, according to reproductive specialists, the most important benefit of incorporating acupuncture to your fertility journey. Stress is unavoidable in the life that we all lead; stress can be present doubly so when we become bogged down by a harsh event or reality that we do not want to accept, such as an infertility journey. The results can be endlessly negative, the losses can be exceedingly and emotionally difficult, and the mental strain that it causes can be detrimental. Acupuncture can alleviate the stress from the journey and be a source of support and comfort for when it gets difficult. A stress-free approach to the journey is an invaluable one. 

At Acupuncture and Holistic Health Center, we are first and foremost concerned with getting you the rest, results, and goals you need. We will walk alongside you in this journey to help prepare you and support you through the ups and downs. We may recommend safe, effective supplements and herbs, hormone tracking and other lifestyle changes while we walk alongside you. We will celebrate and mourn, but most importantly, we will help. 

Give us a call at (904) 296-9545 to schedule a consultation and treatment for infertility today! 

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