— Book review by L. Brown, Video, Chinese Medicine Tools
— The miracle of life became an inconceivable nightmare after one woman deals with a botched in-vitro fertilization.
Todays blog was written by YinOva acupuncturist and herbalist, Marie Amato, who has a particular specialty when it comes to treating children. You don’t have to wait for your child to catch his or her next cold to try out acupuncture. We recommend bringing kids in for seasonal tune-ups. The change of season is difficult [...]
— It’s a familiar story: Woman sacrifices libido at alter of motherhood.
I blogged recently about using Chinese medicine to get your libido back and that article prompted a writer from Cookie Magazine to come to the YinOva Center to get help for a flagging sex drive. The article she wrote will be in the October issue of Cookie. We are happy to have been able to [...]
The authors of this book—a reproductive endocrinologist and a licensed acupuncturist and board-certified herbalist— have pooled the best of Western and alternative medicine to help women, including the 9 million who seek fertility treatment in the United States every year, get pregnant as naturally as possible. After helping you identify your “fertility type,” the book [...]
Patients who have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility often find it a great relief that their seemingly random collection of symptoms make sense from a Chinese medicine perspective. They have usually undertaken a battery of tests by the time they visit us at the YinOva Center and their first question is, “If nothing is wrong, [...]
In this excerpt from the brand new book, Making Babies (Little Brown, 2009), a noted fertility doctor and a practitioner of alternative medicine explain why high-tech fertility options often fail patients, and how women can take steps to maximize their own fertility. Pamela had been through ten cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) at three [...]
— I am a big proponent of the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility, which teaches you the science behind your female body.
I recently wrote a blog entry that was all about influencing the sex of your baby. All that talk about X and Y chromosomes prompted one of my patients to ask me about Fragile X syndrome. She had just been diagnosed as a carrier for this disorder and wanted me to help her sort through [...]
I enjoyed this video by Alice Eve Jones performing an extract from her book, What I Thought I Knew. In it she describes how, after a long struggle with infertility, she was told she was in menopause, only to find out that she was pregnant. Recently Dr. David and I were consulted by a patient [...]
East Meets West “The world of infertility is all too often one where questions far outnumber answers, and, to be more specific, answers that actually make sense. In a revolutionary new book entitled, Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility, authors Dr. Sami David and Jill Blakeway champion an approach that combines the best [...]
Kathryn, one of our lovely YinOva patients was reading our book Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility when she had a thought. She facebooked me to suggest that we start collecting fertility-friendly recipes and publishing them here on the blog. I loved the idea and thought her first two recipe suggestions were [...]
For many women who’ve been told they have “bad eggs,” are too old to conceive, have suffered through multiple miscarriages or those who’ve put all their eggs in the IVF basket with disappointing and expensive results, Making Babies offers an holistic approach to conception that empowers women and their partners to make informed choices about [...]
— Called a “fertility goddess” by the New York Times, Blakeway spoke to us about her approach.
— The Conceptual Bookshelf of the July/August issue of Conceive Magazine highlights Jill’s book.
Jill Blakeway is the Clinic Director of the YinOva Center. She is an acupuncturist, author and speaker who makes regular media appearances to talk about natural health care for women. Here she writes about how acupuncture can help women undergoing IVF. For the past 12 years here at the YinOva Center we have used traditional [...]
— More couples than ever before are being referred to infertility clinics.
Those of you who sneaked a peek at our book Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility, in the YinOva waiting room, already know what their fertility type is. It’s so much fun when you come into the treatment room and tell me – “Guess what ?- I was reading your book and [...]
In our book Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility Dr. David and I recommend abdominal self massage as a way of helping to enhance fertility by increasing blood flow to the uterus. In the book there are detailed diagrams of different self-massage techniques for every phase of your cycle. This massage is [...]
July 26, 2009
— The article includes extracts from the UK version of the book and an interview with Jill.
— Food and fertility. What role does diet play in a woman’s ability to conceive?
