By Alyssa Beiss, Acupuncture Denver Staff National Infertility Awareness Week (http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/home-page.html) is upon us and, as specialists in the field, we are excited to support it. Infertility (http://www.acudenver.com/fertility.htm) can be an enormous challenge but lots of new research is being done to find new options for treatment, and acupuncture has recently been the focus of multiple studies. One very recent study has found increased  Read more

By Alyssa Beiss, Acupuncture Denver Staff It is widely accepted that high levels of stress are associated with difficulty conceiving and maintaining pregnancy. It should not come as a surprise that a similar association can be made between stress levels and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes. A new study of women undergoing IVF, measured levels of stress hormones throughout the IVF process, and found a correlation between lower levels of stress and increased success rates. You can rea Read more

I am excited to have so many wonderful upcoming events this fall at Acupuncture Denver! The most amazing event will be the October Fertile Soul Retreat (http://acudenver.com/workshops.htm)with Dr. Randine Lewis (http://www.thefertilesoul.com/randine-lewis-infertility-cure.php), author of The Infertility Cure, founder of The Fertile Soul, and my dear friend and mentor. I am just thrilled to be hosting this weekend retreat right at the clinic. We'll start on Friday night, October 12th and Read more

I got to spend part of this past Sunday with an amazing group of women who have supported each other through their respective fertility journeys for the last four years after having met at my Fer (http://www.acudenver.com/classes.htm)rtile Ground Yoga (http://www.acudenver.com/classes.htm) class. When I was about to go on maternity leave and had to put the class on hold in the summer of 2008, five women who met there decided to get each others’ contact info and stay in touch. That Read more

By Randine Lewis, MSOM, Ph.D., L.Ac., FABORM (http://www.thefertilesoul.com/randine-lewis-infertility-cure.php) Happy Fourth of July! Independence Day celebrates breaking free from the control of the motherland. We eat, drink, gather with friends and family, and watch the sky fill with fireworks. The day ends, and we go back to our lives, unchanged., having just given our energy to another past moment in history. Rather than focusing on the past story (http://www Read more

By Lindsay Stenson, Acupuncture Denver Staff Are gluten-free foods all the rage or I’m just paying closer attention? Walking the aisles of the grocery store or sitting down to eat at a local restaurant, I have been pleasantly surprised by the increasing number of gluten-free options. It is during these times that I ask myself, should I go gluten-free too? While I don’t recommend going gluten-free if there isn’t a need (don’t fix what isn’t broken), I do think t Read more

Welcome to the second installment of Coping With Infertility during the Holidays. You can find the first installment in a prior post (http://http://www.acudenver.com/_blog/Acupuncture_Denver_Blog/post/Coping_with_Infertility_during_the_Holidays/). At this point the holidays are in full swing, and no matter what your take is on them, there is no avoiding them now…houses are covered in lights, stores are filled with kitschy red and green décor, Christmas music is piped into mall Read more

With the holidays upon us, it's hard not to anticipate the onslaught of questions, feelings of alienation, and grief that can come up when we add family, friends, and parties into the already complicated mix of the fertility struggle. Not only is it hard to attend gatherings that revolve around the concept of family and children, but it's also hard to witness another year passing, as the holiday and New Year can feel like milestones in time. Even though I'm past the hardest parts of my own f Read more

We are excited about our upcoming One-Day Fertile Soul retreat (http://www.acudenver.com/workshops.htm) which happens on Sunday, October 2 from 9:00AM-7:00 PM. This day-long workshop has proven to be one of my favorite experiences to share with my patients and other attendees. The presentation is full of information, the work is deep and heart-centered, and by the end of the day everyone feels supported, uplifted, and hopeful. I invite anyone who needs a day of nurturing, connection and heal Read more

A recent study from the European Journal of Integrative Medicine showed that TCM treatments (individualized acupuncture and customized Chinese herbal formulas ) improved pregnancy rates and live births in women undergoing intrauterine inseminations (IUI) at the Fertility Research Institute in the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. As the first published study to evaluate the influence of acupuncture and herbs on IUI treatments, this was ground-breaking research. And the outcomes were pretty  Read more