IVF Support: Make This Your Last, Best Cycle!

Las Vegas Fertility Acupuncture

For patients who are going through IVF, acupuncture can support you through the process. With an experienced fertility acupuncturist, you can improve the rate of success by 25-50%. Increased numbers of follicles, egg health, and lining thickness can all be improved. A recent study concluded that a course of fertility acupuncture (8-10 treatments) before and during an IVF cycle can increase the chances for a live birth by up to 50%.

Acupuncture during IVF

Acupuncture during IVF can help improve the quality of your eggs through increased blood flow to ovaries, reduce the intensity of side effects from the hormone regimen, reduce the intensity of emotional swings, and improve IVF success rates. When you do IVF, every egg that is retrieved is the equivalent of one month’s work in egg nourishment. So if you retrieve 12 eggs, that is a year’s worth of nourishment in a month! That is a huge energetic and nutritional drain on your body and energy. When you do acupuncture during IVF, you make sure that you increase the amount of nourishment each egg is getting, which helps improve the quality of retrieved eggs. Better quality eggs mean a higher rate of fertilization and a higher success rate.

It's optimal if you can come in 2-3 months before the procedure to get maximum impact on the health of your eggs. Ninety days is the window for maximal change — but not the only useful window. Each month of treatment can improve egg quality. The best time to start is now, however short or long you have before your cycle.

ANY acupuncture during an IVF cycle will help. If you are in a cycle right now, still come in, you will benefit. IVF is stressful, and reducing stress always helps with IVF outcomes. Acupuncture can also decrease medication side effects and help improve blood flow to the ovaries to help improve the nutrient flow during stimulation.

Acupuncture and lifestyle changes are equals in this work. Lifestyle is the foundation so acupuncture can rebalance hormones, address the specific fertility issue, and tie everything together. Both are critical. I have received intensive postgraduate training in fertility acupuncture, and I have board certification in Reproductive Oriental Medicine. Call for support in making this IVF cycle as successful as possible, and let’s make this your last, best cycle! Read more about Fertility Programs.

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