As a species, we’ve been finding ways to enhance our chances of falling pregnant since the dawn of civilization. While many of the historic foods, herbs, and practices have been found through modern science to be ineffective at best, many other of our ancient traditions have survived through the millennium because they have been proven to work.
Achieving health and well-being through diet and exercise is a no-brainer if you want to get pregnant while herbal medicine, meditation, massage, and treatments such as acupuncture are slowly finding their way into modern medicine as scientists plays “catch-up” with much of what people have known for centuries. Meanwhile studies into the impacts of microbial gut health and epigenetics are taking our ability to improve our chances of having children through “natural” methods to a whole new level.
In this section, we take a look at ways of using natural fertility solutions to relieve the adverse side effects of western fertility treatments, and to improve your reproductive potential in general. The goal here is to provide some rigor where possible to all of your “grandma’s remedies”, with some new ideas thrown in for good measure!