Natural Fertility Treatment
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Pamela Frank
In my extensive experience with successfully treating infertility naturally, the following natural fertility treatments are those that I have found to be most effective. Click the links in each topic to learn more about each type of fertility treatment.
Science-Based Nutrition for Fertility
What should you eat when you are trying to conceive? Some foods can harm fertility, such as heavy-metal-contaminated fish, while others can enhance it, including high-quality proteins, healthy fats, fruits, and vegetables. I can provide a detailed list of the foods that would be best and worst for your specific situation, which foods to avoid, and which foods offer fertility benefits.
Just as importantly, the right diet helps regulate blood sugar, reduce inflammation, and provide the key vitamins and minerals that support ovulation, sperm production, and a healthy uterine lining. Nutrients such as folate, iron, zinc, omega-3 fatty acids, and antioxidants all play essential roles in reproductive health. By focusing on nutrient-dense foods and avoiding those that disrupt hormone balance or increase toxin exposure, your diet can become a powerful tool to support conception and overall reproductive health.
Western Herbal Medicine for Fertility
Plants have incredible healing properties. They can help balance hormones, regulate menstrual cycles and promote normal function of the reproductive organs for both men and women. But, they have to be prescribed and used properly – in the right format, in the right dose for you, and at the right point of your cycle to be effective. Read more about my top 5 fertility herbs.
Acupuncture for Fertility
Scared of needles? There’s no need to fear these ones. Acupuncture is commonly used in natural fertility treatment. Acupuncture needles are hardly thicker than a strand of hair but can balance your body and improve the function of your reproductive organs. You can also achieve your fertility goals without doing acupuncture.
Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM Herbs for Fertility
Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, uses combinations of synergistic herbs to balance and restore healthy function to your reproductive system, including your ovaries (in women) or testes (in men). Be careful of the source, though, as some Chinese herbs are contaminated with unlabeled prescription drugs and heavy metals like arsenic.
Vitamins and Minerals for Fertility
Your liver, thyroid, adrenal glands, pituitary, ovaries, and/or testes all play a role in fertility and all require certain vitamins and minerals to function at their best. Poor diet, high stress, and soil depletion of certain vitamins and minerals all contribute to deficiencies of vital nutrients for fertility. Replenishing specific vitamins and minerals, which ones to replace are determined based on either testing or symptoms, encourages the optimal function of your entire endocrine (hormone-producing) system for enhanced fertility.
Natural Fertility Treatment Research
This is just a small sampling of the multitude of natural fertility treatment research that supports the use of natural methods to enhance or restore fertility:
J Tradit Chin Med. 2014 Jun;34(3):267-73.
Effects of Chinese herbs combined with in vitro fertilization and embryo transplantation on infertility: a clinical randomized controlled trial.
Guo J, Li D, Liu C, Ji X, Li R, Du X.
Gu Yunxia, Li Jun, Zheng Pengying (2018) “Effect of Acupuncture Combined with Western Medicine on Hormone Level and Ovarian Blood Flow in Infertile Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome” Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine Vol. 22 (25) pp. 3588-3590.
Wien Med Wochenschr. 2002;152(15-16):364-72.
Effectiveness of Vitex agnus-castus preparations
Gorkow C1, Wuttke W, März RW.
Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2018 Sep 25. doi: 10.2174/1389201019666180925140400. [Epub ahead of print]
Food with influence in the sexual and reproductive health.
Silva T1, Jesus M1, Cagigal C1, Silva C1.