Quotes about Fertility from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "According to the National Center for Health Statistics, a 42 percent jump in fertility problems was reported between 1982 and 1995.
Women in the prime of their childbearingyears aren't the only ones having trouble with fertility. Studies are now pouring out of various institutions showing connections between exposure to toxins and male infertility as well. Sperm rates have fallen in much of the industrialized, Western world. They've declined more so in places where pesticides are prominent, and male infertility reports are mounting like never before."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "Sexual development and fertility are normal. Affected subjects are hyperphagic and have increased linear growth, similar to what occurs in heterozygous Mc4r-deficient mice. MC4/v-deficient humans also have increased lean mass and bone mineral density and mild central hypothyroidism. Female haploinsufficiency13 carriers are heavier then male carriers in their families, a pattern also seen in Mc4r-deficient mice. These data are strong evidence for dominantly inherited obesity, not associated with infertility, because of haploinsufficiency mutations in MC4R."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "This healing has led to restored capacity to reproduce in cases of sterility and to increased fertility in cases of limited fertility. Many cases of men and women able to procreate, once detoxified, are on record.
• Enlarged organs return to normal size if the induration, or hardening, sixth stage of disease has not yet been reached. Most prostate enlargements will reverse to normal if the gland has not yet fully enlarged and hardened.
• Swollen, edematous tissues normalize."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
 "One well-documented example is the role of flavonoids in fertility: while a few flavonoid-deficient plants are able to germinate, grow, and set fertile seed,
239 most plants require flavonoids for fertility and normal pollen development. Another is flavonoid modulation of auxin transport as well as localized auxin accumulations observed during nodulation."- Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
 "Andro can cause a loss of fertility and other side effects similar to those of the other anabolic steroids.
Testosterone and its precursors and derivatives are anabolic steroids that promote the buildup of muscle mass. Testosterone is used to treat decreased libido and to increase muscle mass in athletes. Taking testosterone supplements, however, can actually depress libido, and shuts off sperm production, causing infertility that can take months to recover from. In some cases recovery does not occur. Testosterone also leads to psychiatric side effects, including suicide."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Finally, a study at the fertility Clinic Trianglen in Denmark concluded that "acupuncture ... significantly improves the reproductive outcome of IVF (in vitro fertilization) and ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) compared to no acupuncture."
Best of all, acupuncture for infertility is truly a "whole person" treatment that looks at the woman as much more than just a dysfunctional reproductive system. "People come into my office and they're completely unprepared for conception," Lawrence told me. "- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
 "Certainly being able to identify the period of peak fertility for a woman is a great help when trying for a baby, but unfortunately there are a plethora of reasons for infertility and for many couples success is dependent upon more than a trip to the pharmacist. Indeed, in both Britain and the United States one in six couples seeks help from the medical profession.
Reasons for infertility divide about equally between men and women at 40 percent each, with the remaining 20 percent of problems being attributable to sub-
fertility, rather than infertility."- Valerie Ann Worwood, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy (Get the book.) |
| "The third myth is that monthly bleeding is a requirement for fertility. Ovulation generally occurs at the opposite pole of the monthly fertility cycle whether or not discharge of the resulting placental lining is accompanied by bleeding.
In humans, menstrual bleeding is thought by raw food experts to be a sign of toxicity and/or Vitamin C deficiency. It would be nonsensical to state that people should not be on a raw food diet for a long-term basis when that is how we, as all animal species, evolved over millions of years!
30." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
| "The Causes of Infertility 73
Two basic types of problems can interfere with fertility: structural problems (e.g., damaged fal-lopian tubes) or functional problems (e.g., an H irregular menstrual cycle).
"By needling certain points on the meridians |jj you can influence and rebalance the endocrine and hormonal system," says Cindy Lawrence, LAc, a licensed acupuncturist who also holds a master's degree in oriental medicine. "Regulating the menstrual cycle is very important—maybe the patient is not ovulating or [her] luteal phase is too short." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
| "One well-documented example is the role of flavonoids in fertility: while a few flavonoid-deficient plants are able to germinate, grow, and set fertile seed,
239 most plants require flavonoids for fertility and normal pollen development. Another is flavonoid modulation of auxin transport as well as localized auxin accumulations observed during nodulation." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
 "This doesn't mean you shouldn't undergo fertility treatments—just be aware that your periods might wane or you might experience hot flashes afterward. Infertility is hard enough. Coupled with menopause, it can feel unbearable.
Bette Davis sure got it right when she said "Getting old ain't for sissies." It is estimated that during both perimenopause and menopause,
80 percent of all women suffer significant life-altering symptoms such as fatigue, depression, low sex drive, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, recurrent urinary or vaginal infections, insomnia, and more."- Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
 "Indeed, fertility specialists have long advised couples struggling to conceive to reduce their stress. Stacks of scientific studies suggest that stress and negativity cut a woman's odds of conceiving. But is eliminating negativity really enough? Maybe positivity is what makes the difference. After all, my first data-driven approach to conception wasn't particularly negative. But it was hardly joyful, either.
With my own sweet babies born out of positivity, I've found myself advising friends facing fertility issues to cultivate their own heartfelt love and joy with their partners."- Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "Reduced sperm count, a condition that leads to infertility or reduced fertility.
• Malformed or absent epididymis, a defect of the structure where sperm mature and are stored.
Of particular significance is that, while inactive in feeding tests, phthalates induce hormonal effects following application to the skin. This further incriminates them as dangerous in cosmetics and personal care products.
A 2000 survey by the U.S."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "How well do fertility treatments really work? (Probably not as well as fertility clinics advertise.) What's the most effective way to bring down skyrocketing rates of diabetes? New drugs? Screening people for high blood sugar? Sending patients to weight-loss clinics? Does fetal monitoring reduce the risk of a bad outcome during childbirth, or just increase the chances of a Caesarean section? Does screening for prostate cancer with the PSA test save lives? If prostate cancer is found, which treatment is best?"- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Although women frequently died in childbirth or struggled to feed families of six to ten or more, they were forbidden information concerning fertility regulation that was literally lifesaving. Although diaphragms and condoms gradually became more readily available (the first diaphragms in use in America were smuggled from Europe through Canada by Sanger and her husband), it was not until the Supreme Court decision Griswald v. Connecticut in 1966 that married women's rights to access birth control became assured."- Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "None of the treatments had any significant association with perinatal mortality, complication for the infant, or fertility. Follow-up recommendations may vary depending on your overall case history and your practitioner's perspective. Some patients treated with any of these conventional treatments are advised to have three-month Pap smears for the first year and six-month Pap smears for the next year. Others will have the recommendation of annual Pap smears following die conventional treatment." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Once a tumor is excluded, medical therapy to decrease prolactin is mainly used to achieve pregnancy, and it is not required in an asymptomatic patient who is not seeking fertility. 3. Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. In the majority of women with this classification, no organic disease can be identified in the hypothalamus, anterior pituitary, or ovary. Management of hypothalamic amenorrhea associated with weight loss must focus primarily on trying to correct the underlying cause of the weight loss." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) |
| "These are all energizing hormones that could in fact enhance our sex drive and fertility, exactly as the Chinese promised. It all fit perfectly. Hormones could be used as tonics to strengthen us.
But women can't take hormones anymore, right? Isn't that what the studies show? Wrong. The studies that have made the headlines are all about synthetic hormones, not natural hormones. Natural hormones look and feel exactly like the hormones our body produces. In medical school we focused primarily on synthetic hormones." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
| "A reduction of weight by even as little as 5 to 10 percent can not only restore regular menses, but also improve fertility.4
Some women may have low body weight but do not have an eating disorder or exercise-induced amenorrhea. This may be a metabolism issue, a hereditary factor, or a diet that is extremely low in fat although not low in calories. Women who take in insufficient calories, such as strict vegetarians who eat no animal products or others with extreme diets, may have insufficient dietary fat and low cholesterol. Adequate cholesterol is needed to manufacture hormones." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) |
| "Similarly, reduced flower color and fertility were reported in tobacco upon introduction of a stilbene synthase gene, which normally sends flux into the stilbene branch pathway (Fischer et al, 1997). Some of these negative effects can be ameliorated by selecting lines with altered expression of the endogenous pathway or with moderate levels of transgene expression (for example, Fettig and Hess, 1999). All these observations indicate that a great deal remains to be learned about the mechanisms normally used by cells to distribute flux among competing branch pathways." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
| "The Chinese have always emphasized the kidney as a source of energy, necessary for fertility and healthy aging. They view aging and perimenopausal symptoms as "kidney deficiency." Of course, I had learned about the kidney in medical school but not about its relationship to healthy aging. When I learned about the Chinese view in my thirties, I began using Chinese medicine to strengthen my kidneys. I drank foul-tasting Chinese herbs; on my ankles I heated moxa (a Chinese herb that is burned near acupuncture needles to help strengthen the body)—all to improve my kidneys." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
 "This is why it is not possible to increase soil fertility through human action. Unless interfered with, the soil in natural ecosystems is always at maximum fertility. To increase soil fertility at one location means that ecological resources have to be taken from someplace else.
Soil fertility is temporarily increased at one location by decreasing it in another. This is not even a zero-sum game. The removal of ecosystem resources in that one location causes a diminishment of its functional community, from which it cannot recover except over very long time spans."- Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.) |
| "Other work by the same researchers, measuring the phthalate DEP in men with fertility problems, connected high phthalate blood levels with genetic abnormalities in the men's sperm. (7)
In EWG's "Not Too Pretty" report, a survey was done of all the medical science literature pertaining to phthalates and possible human reproductive disorders. "Scientists have shown that phthalates can damage the female reproductive system," the report observed, "but it is the male reproductive system that appears to be more sensitive." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "If you're concerned about chemicals in your produce, you can simply ask the farmer at the market how he or she deals with pests and fertility and begin the sort of conversation be-
*One recent study found that the average item of organic produce in the supermarket had actually traveled farther from the farm than the average item of conventional produce."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "In no way does it suggest that physically conjuring motherhood will guarantee fertility. It does, however, illustrate that storytelling comes in many powerful forms and can include all our senses. Among these many styles are the verbalized stories we tell to others, our internal dialogue, and Kaitlyn's tale of tactile envisioning.
All the people who told us their stories have used the practice of Identification in their own unique ways to convert fears, anxieties, and hostilities into a state of well-being."- Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "Unfortunately, BV puts pregnant women, their babies, and their future fertility at risk. Miscarriage, premature births, low-birth-weight babies, and pelvic inflammatory disease can result from BV during pregnancy.
Yellow, frothy, smelly vaginal discharge, as well as itching and a burning sensation when urinating, can signal a microscopic parasitic infection trichomonas vaginalis. Commonly called "trich," this is another very common STD in the United States and in many other parts of the world."- Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "With or without these other signs, hirsutism can be an unfortunate reaction to hormone-containing drugs, such as birth control pills, steroids, fertility drugs, and testosterone. And not surprisingly, excess hair growth can be a side effect of minoxidil M..........la In 15th-century England, women shaved their pubic hair to keep lice at bay. They covered up the bare spots with merkins— pubic wigs. Merkins were also popular among prostitutes for another reason: they covered up the telltale signs of syphilis and other venereal diseases." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "And we might have seen pictures and statues of fertility goddesses with rows of breasts across their chests. Perhaps we've thought that multiple breasts in humans were just the stuff of fantasies. But some people do have one or more extra breasts—medically called polymastia. Also known as supernumerary breasts, they can come with or without nipples and areolae. (See Triple Nipples, below.) Most often these mammary marvels are not noticed until puberty, when they start to develop in response to sex hormones." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Priapism was named after Priapus, the Greek god of gardening and fertility, and son of Aphrodite. So homely a baby was he that the gods tossed him off Mt. Olympus and he was raised among the nymphs and satyrs. One day his penis grew so large and heavy he couldn't move.To add insult to injury, he had a permanent erection but couldn't ejaculate. SPOTTED PENIS If your partner dons a colored condom, you might find it funny, if not sexy. But if his penis itself has changed color, it's not a laughing matter." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) |
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