Theme Day Fertility EN

Using an avatar of a 40 year old client with Endometriosis, struggling to conceive and stay pregnant, I will be connecting the dots between egg quality, uterine hospitality, low AMH, miscarriage, unexplained infertility in complex cases.

This discussion will cover and make sense of the web of impact that perimenopause, dysregulated insulin and oestrogen, infections, disordered microbiome and outdated views of BMI, can have.

We will look at these issues from mostly a biomedical point of view, including helpful testing and health tech we can use, but will also spend a little bit of time talking about these issues from a diagnostic TCM point of view so that Acupuncturists and Herbalists can understand what they are dealing with, and make informed choices around treatment principles, acupuncture points and herbal formulae.

Awareness of the importance of the microbiome for various health ailments has skyrocketed in the last decade – who hasn’t used a probiotic in the last few years, or made a concerted effort to eat more fermented or pre-biotic foods? Despite widespread interest, research into the role of the microbiome in fertility has only recently started to surface. During this session, we take a closer look at what we currently know about the microbiome, its role in fertility and what the clinical and scientific evidence currently says about how Chinese medicine can potentially help with this aspect of fertility health.