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 Shanly Weber, MA, SEP, Founder of SHIFT (http://shiftingawareness.com/about-shanly/) I am very excited to be leading a workshop on infertility, grief and loss this Saturday, February 9 from 9-12PM at Acupuncture Denver (http://shiftingawareness.com/about-shanly/). Besides helping our bodies during the conception process, it is crucial to support our mind-body connection. By that, I don't mean cognitively processing any difficulties we may be experiencing, but allowing the space for o Read more

I love sending out e-newsletters, because I always end up getting replies and updates from clients whom I haven't seen for a while. Some send pregnancy updates, baby pictures, or just touch base to let me know how they have been. But I was deeply touched when so many people replied yesterday about my upcoming trip to Ethiopia to go get our second son (after a three-plus year wait!). It made me realize how fortunate I am to be surrounded and supported by so much love and understanding in my  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