Fertility Acupuncture » Cloud 9 Acupuncture

At Cloud 9 Acupuncture, it is our desire to help the patient receive treatment for their body, mind and spirit regarding the journey of Fertility, or choosing conscious conception. We consider it an honor and a privilege to work with women, and empower women as they invite their child into being.

How Can Acupuncture Help With Fertility? Acupuncture can help with all stages in the fertility journey from conception to delivery. Acupuncture is extremely effective in regulating hormone levels in the body, and this is quite helpful when treating a patient who has been diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and is trying to conceive. If weight is an issue, acupuncture can also support the PCOS patient by helping with weight loss.

It does this through its ability to balance hormones, curb appetite, and reduce stress. The frequency and duration of your acupuncture treatment at Cloud 9 Acupuncture Community Clinic is determined at the initial appointment and based on a number of factors. The severity of the PCOS, the patient’s constitutional level, and whether or not a patient is undergoing a medicated fertility treatment cycle are taken into consideration upon your treatment plan.

Source: Stener-Victorin E et al, Effects of electro-acupuncture on anovulation in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. Our approach to helping you conceive is a holistic one, looking at all aspects of your and your partner’s health and wellbeing. Based on advanced post-graduate training and a multi-faceted treatment combining acupuncture, supplements, nutrition & lifestyle recommendations we will help you conceive in the most timely, natural, least invasive, and cost-effective way possible.

So whether you’ve suffered from recurrent miscarriage, contemplating ART (assisted reproductive technology), are undergoing an IUI or IVF cycle, have already had unsuccessful IUI or IVF cycles, or are simply looking for support to conceive naturally, we can help. In the past several years, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture have been recognized to appreciably impact ART pregnancy outcomes. Both ongoing clinical trial data and recent meta-analysis show a statistically significant improvement in IVF pregnancy rate with acupuncture treatment.

Regardless of what diagnosis or label has been given to you, our approach is to treat the whole of you - restoring health, balance and well-being. With some gentle encouragement, your dream of conceiving and having a baby can come true. In the study, they used a minimum of nine acupuncture treatments within two months before the embryo transfer.

Since this was a research study, each patient received the same treatment. • Acupuncture does not cause harm to fertility or negatively interfere with an IVF outcome. • Acupuncture can statically improve the live birth rate from IVF by 10 percent to 15 percent. • Acupuncture reduces the number of ectopic pregnancies occurring in IVF fertilizations. • Acupuncture improves implantation and live birth rates by regulating the body’s hormone levels to mimic these hormone levels in a natural cycle. Please be sure to fill out your New Patient Intake Forms, including “Fertility Intake Form” to bring with you to your first appointment.

In the sixth century BCE, an Indian physician, Susruta, is recorded as the first to diagnose diabetes and to prescribe a treatment. His analysis seems remarkably modern. Susruta wrote that diabetes was either congenital (what we would call Type 1 diabetes) or a result of poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, often resulting in obesity (Type 2 diabetes).

His prescribed treatment sounds familiar today: eating a healthier diet, taking long walks, engaging in sports such as wrestling and riding on a horse or elephant. Your cells grow accustomed to the messages they receive; they have habits that reflect your habits. At present, those habits are trending the wrong way.

About 24 million Americans have diabetes -- that's about 8 percent of the population. About a third of these, 5.7 million people, are undiagnosed. Experts believe that diagnosed diabetes will increase 165 percent by 2050. That means that one in three people born in 2050 will be affected by the disease. Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult-onset diabetes because it almost never developed in children.

Now, however, a disturbing number of cases are appearing in young people. Ironically, as more people gain access to a comfortable way of living, lifestyle disorders create a backlash. Type 2 diabetes has become a global epidemic, too. The World Health Organization estimates that over 220 million people around the world have Type 2 diabetes (90 percent of people with diabetes worldwide), and it is among the top five causes of death in most developed countries.

The economic cost of diabetes is enormous, not just to the individual, but to society as well. Science still doesn't understand exactly how and why Type 2 diabetes develops, and this problem is the subject of intense research all over the world. It may be that something goes wrong with the insulin receptors or with the glucose transporting process.

Whatever the causes, the pancreas responds to the increased levels of glucose in the blood by producing ever-greater amounts of insulin. For a while the increased levels of insulin do work to force the target cells to accept more glucose. This temporarily keeps blood sugar levels within their normal range.

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