Infertility - Symptoms, Treatment, Homeopathic Remedies

Description - This radio show talks about infertility and how homeopathy help get the positive results you are looking for. We will talk about modern trends and lifestyles, and how engaging in the workforce has many women delaying starting a family. Many women have also been using contraceptives, which disrupt the hormonal balance of the body.

Through discussions we will show how homeopathy helps to restore balance in women's lives which in turn naturally allows women to conceive and carry healthy babies to term. We will also learn why people choose to go for conventional treatments instead of trying the safer and more effective homeopathic treatments. As well, we will talk about homeopathy in general and how it has benefited many people.

Today, we will be exploring infertility, which is really becoming a growing concern as many more women are putting off starting a family until their late thirties or earlier forties, and this is definitely a newer trend in modern history. And infertility can really affect women quite deeply. It's really at the core of what it means to be a woman. And I would say that many women have spent most of their young lives trying not to get pregnant at an inopportune time, and when that decision comes around to get pregnant when finances are in order, relationships are in place and careers are stable, and when that inevitable time clock is ticking, and it doesn't happen easily. This can be really devastating for many women.

Getting pregnant is really something that women just assume that they could just automatically do. And when it becomes a struggle, when it really becomes a medical condition, this can be very deeply disappointing. So in part one of our show, we will discuss the causes of infertility. Conventional options, potential risks, and the alternative approach of homeopathy. In part two, we'll talk about how homeopathy works differently from conventional approaches and look at some case examples. On the third part of our show, we are blessed to have a very joyful mom with us who conceived her baby with the help of homeopathy. We are going to talk about her experiences. And in the final segment of the show, we will discuss some general advice about promoting fertility and your chances of conceiving a child naturally and safely.

My first guest today is Mary Aspinwall, she is a world-renowned homeopath and educator, and the author of our basic guide to homeopathy. We hear so much more about infertility in recent years, I mean, what's going on?

Mary Aspinwall: Well, I think the reason that we hear so much about it is because it has become a very extreme situation, with one-third of couples where the woman is over thirty-five experience infertility problems. And I think it has only recently come into the collective consciousness, so there's a huge drop in the natural fertility levels particularly after the age of thirty-five. It drops almost 10 percent and that drop continues. So if you are like thirty-seven or forty years old, your chances of having a baby is about 21 percent. If you are between forty-one and forty-two, your chances of having a baby is about 11 percent.

So we can see that the lifestyle choices that people have made because of women entering the workforce and being more successful in the workforce, and being reluctant to give up their career, and reluctant to give up that second income. This results in many people delaying having babies. This has brought about a massive problem for people. I think that problem is coming more and more into the consciousness of women and giving them more and more cause for concern.

Aside from what's happening from women's infertility, there is also a significant decrease in the motility and the number of sperm. Male sperm counts are also dropping. So you have a double whammy effect there.

Besides these things, many women have used birth control pills. Some aspects of our body are quite solid in the material realm like our skeletons, but when you are talking about the hormonal system, they are super fine and delicate. And I think what we've done is that we tinkered with that system and it's brought all sorts of effects that we wanted. But of course, as with any medical treatment, there are effects that you want and there are effects that you do not want. Synthetic hormones can have a very bad effect for women's health.

We could also see in relation to the contraceptive pills what is happening there is that you are taking hormones to convince your body that you are pregnant all the time. There is no need for you to conceive since in effect you are already have conceived. This is effectively lying to your body. You don't have any kind of natural cycle or any kind of natural bleeding. You do have bleeding once a month but this is in relation to withdrawal of the oral contraceptives. Essentially, what you are doing is that you are putting your body on hold and telling it a lie, and often that lie can go on for a year. Some cases it could even last up to ten years.

Unfortunately, there is a huge price when to be paid you start tinkering that way with your system. Because when you try to say to it "Now I'm ready, now I want to get pregnant", it isn't always as straightforward as that. You actually created a situation where it is actually much more difficult to conceive, and on top of that you do have increased your risk of having breast cancer and cervical cancer to boot.

Importance of Homeopathy To Health and Pregnancy

One of the things that I always address to my female clients is that to just give them this kind of information so that they could make a more meaningful choice of what kind of contraceptive that they are going to use. I also say to my clients all contraceptives are awful. What you have to do is you have to make a reasoned choice on the risks and benefits of each one. And then decide which one's for you.

There are other aspects in relation to people's nutrition. I think the quality of our food has gone down and people tend to go more for convenience processed food and less fresh fruit and vegetables. Many more find that good nutrition particularly fresh fruits and vegetables are key to wellbeing.

We have made great advances in conventional medicine, but people will just assume that they have ideas that they will become more successful with that kind of reproductive assistance. Although it has come a long way, it is by no means a total solution.

Here in our second part, we have a highly respected homeopathic practitioner and lecturer, Gabrielle Traub. Most of the patients coming in on her clinic prefer to have traditional treatments for their infertility. Often, homeopathy is the end of the line. As people are becoming more and more aware of homeopathy, it really is a form of treatment that they could use for infertility. They are starting to use homeopathy much faster.

The types of patients who are coming to see me often have underlying conditions. All the hormonal imbalances can make infertility a lot more tricky. What I have seen now especially with younger women seeking a pregnancy is that they are turning to homeopathy to put their bodies in balance. This way, when they want to get pregnant, they would not be having all of the problems that they have down the line. There is also a partner's involvement, things like sperm count and motility of the sperm, and it is equally important to treat both partners.

When women finally decide that they want to have a baby, often the clock's ticking and it creates a real feeling of desperation in them. They learn how to feel like they have a lot of time to spend. If women and men did not feel the immense pressure that they feel to get pregnant, they would never willingly go to the fertility treatments because they are absolutely horrendous. When a woman becomes pregnant, it's the time when they are trying to get their body as healthy as possible to give the baby the best possible start it can have. I always recommend my patients before they get to conceive to come in for constitutional homeopathic treatments. Get your body as healthy as it possibly can be so that you could create babies that are as healthy as possible.

Homeopathy is perfect for creating hormonal balance of your body and creating health on their own. When most women go to their and OBGYN, they don't even recommend homeopathy as an option. Most women and couples don't think of homeopathy as a potential option for something that's safe and natural and gentle. Many women and couples that I have treated told me "I wish I have known before".

Creating a baby and getting pregnant is instinctive in one way or another. It is very difficult to dissuade a woman wanting to have a baby because it's instinctive, it's in our genes. It really makes women question their femininity and ability to create and it's a very sad situation. My heart goes out to so many women and couples struggling. I'm not surprised that they are going to try any treatment that is going to help no matter what damage it does to their bodies. It is because they don't know about homeopathy.

The traditional approach to infertility is about supercharging those ovaries and making eggs get produced and putting the whole endocrine system into an acute, overcharged state to promote egg production. What I am hearing about homeopathy is that it is about bringing the body to a balance so that the whole system can naturally create a pregnancy versus forcing the body to create a pregnancy.

There are so many risks with the conventional treatments. The homeopathic treatments, on the other hand, is a lot easier because there's no side effects. It's completely safe, it's completely natural, and every step of the way, the woman goes through no pain, no side effects, it's just a much more gentle approach.

The way to prescribe homeopathy is to give very small doses, minor doses of substances that are capable of enlisting an immune response. So it triggers the immune system. The first thing it does is that it regulates the hormonal balance of the system. We very much emphasize diet and lifestyle and things like that as well. Women often tell me that they feel that it's so unfair how a drug addict, somebody who takes amphetamines can have an unwanted child when they are damaging their bodies. There's a lot more to it than healthy diet and lifestyle. What homeopathy does is that it puts the whole body in balance. Fertility is the number one sign of health.