If your like a lot of people who see me at my San Diego office, you are seeking acupuncture to assist with the success of your IVF cyle. Perhaps you just heard about fertility acupuncture, and are wondering if it is too late at this point, or it can still help. Here is how acupuncture can benefit you: Fortunately. acupuncture can help at a number Continue Reading
San Diego Acupuncture Fertility: Three Dietary Tips That Can Boost Your Fertility
The patients of my San Diego acupuncture clinic who are seeking treatment for fertility problems often ask me "what can I change about my diet that can improve my chances to successfully become pregnant?" I want to share three major tips Traditional Chinese Medicine has to offer women trying to conceive. And yes, men can benfit from these as Continue Reading
San Diego Acupunture: Golfer’s Elbow
As a follow up to an older post about tennis elbow, another recent patient of mine came in to my San Diego Acupuncture clinic with his wife for fertility boosting prior to an IVF cycle. In the process, I first helped get rid of his nagging, golf-related upper back pain. We then focused a few teratments on his golfer's elbow (inner elbow pain). All Continue Reading
Treating Stress with Acupuncture
How many of us are not affected by the daily toll of stress? Most of us living in San Diego are aware of the stress that comes from trying to make it in one of America's most expensive cities. It is said that stress plays a roll in a majority of complaints that bring people to the doctor's office, from migraine and tension headaches to ulcerative Continue Reading
Temperature charting can help with treating infertility
It might be a bit of a chore, but I find temperature charting to be an invaluable tool in the treatment of female fertility related problems. Tracking your basal body temperature allows us a glimpse into the unique cycle of your body. It gives me, the acupuncturist, objective information that we can compare to your pulse, tongue and case history Continue Reading
Study links cellphone use and poor sperm quality
Men with sperm quality issues may do well to cut down on cell phone usage. In a study published by Fertility and Sterility, research suggests a tie between cell phone usage and poor semen quality. I fear this study may not get enough attention. Using 361 male subjects, the study found that the more hours the men spent talking on cell phones, the Continue Reading
Fertility Tips From an Acupuncturist
Anybody who is having trouble conceiving, or is worried they are having fertility problems, would do well to follow very some good ancient and modern advice. Consider Chinese Dietary Therapy: If your daily meals resemble the "typical American diet," chances are that the foods you are eating run counter to what Eastern medicine would consider the Continue Reading