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"I was in my fifth year of infertility treatments, had taken multiple infertility drugs, and wound up severely depressed. I'd lost 35 pounds in two months. I couldn't sleep, I had panic attacks. Doctors put me on the conventional Xanax treatment for three years. I had hair loss, skin problems, nail-biting problems and aches all over my body, especially in my legs. Dr. Spreen got me on a vitamin regimen, which made me feel somewhat better. Then, last summer, he put me on very low doses of thyroid and immediately—within two to three weeks—all the problems were gone." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Although he was head of Organon's marketing of infertility drugs, he had no problem securing a place on the board of directors of the American infertility Association (AIA). This he did slowly. "Don't hard-sell it," he cautioned. Instead "offer them something that they can suggest corrections on" and "have a sit-down" with their locals. "Don't insist that you have to brand their Web site" in return for your dollars. Instead take the longer road, as he did. When Organon completed an infertility drug study, Stern convinced the AIA to endorse it." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Historians speculate that infertility and mental infirmity due to lead poisoning from excessive wine consumption figured in the decline of Roman civilization. Perhaps an explanation for Nero's behavior. Today, we extract a billion tons of lead a year from the earth's crust, and it is poisoning us. Lead exposure comes from paints, batteries, and drinking water flowing through lead-lined pipes. Lead emissions from industry pollute our food and water. Bone lead content in a healthy individual is a hundred times greater than that of a healthy person a hundred years ago." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"BPA, found in everything from baby bottles and water cooler jugs to bicycle helmets, CDs, and the inside lining of tin cans, is associated with a number of health problems and diseases that are on the rise in the United States population, including breast and prostate cancers and infertility. FACT One of the main storage areas for lead is in the bones, where it is stored from early childhood during bone development. With aging and the onset of osteoporosis, blood lead levels begin increasing as it's released from thinning bones." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "FACT A group of compounds called endocrine disrupters are getting a lot of attention as infertility rates skyrocket and more and more young women complain of having trouble conceiving and giving birth to healthy children. Endocrine disrupters mimic or block hormones that regulate many bodily functions, such as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone—hormones that are key to reproductive health. Small changes to this intricate system of hormonal signals can translate to major health concerns that could be difficult, if not impossible, to reverse. 7:30 A.M." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Together these two factors have led to an alarming increase in chronic ailments, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity ("diobesity"), arthritis, depression, infertility, hormonal imbalances, allergies, gastrointestinal diseases, and cancer. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimate that more than 90 million Americans live with chronic illness, and that "the prolonged course of illness and disability from such chronic diseases as diabetes and arthritis results in extended pain and suffering and decreased quality of life for millions of Americans." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "We have long blamed women's infertility on timing matters—a woman who waited too long to have children or who cannot point to a medical condition and is thus somehow personally at fault. But now that more women are talking about their struggles with pregnancy and the topic is less taboo, we are seeing some incredible statistics that are grabbing the attention of public health officials, politicians, and fertility experts. At least 10 percent of all couples in the United States cannot conceive a child, and this percentage appears to be increasing." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"I'd had thyroid checks three times while I was being treated for infertility, and the blood tests had always come up negative. But I knew that my family had thyroid problems. At least six members that I can think of have thyroid disorders, but mine just never showed up on tests. After taking very low doses of thyroid, my skin problem cleared up, I stopped biting my nails and my legs stopped aching. The mild depression I was still suffering from vanished. I felt great. I slept like a normal person again. I had energy. People started commenting on how I seemed to be like my old self." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Our success and happiness; our failures and suffering; our physical conditions, such as infertility and immune disorders; and even our life expectancy have all been linked to our subconscious beliefs. And sometimes the most damaging ones begin early on, as we allow the experiences of other people to become the template for our own. To understand just how these connections between life and memory are made, and how we can change them, we need to understand the difference between our conscious and subconscious minds and how they work." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Polycystic ovarian disease is a condition related to diabetes and obesity in women and is often associated with infertility. In many such people, vitamin D replacement restores fertility. MARTIN'S PAIN We saw an eleven-year-old African American boy, Martin, who had a three-year history of pain in his legs, arms, hands, ankles, and feet, with no swelling. He had worse pain in the winter but felt better in the summer (he spent summers in Mississippi). His muscles and bones hurt, especially in the shins. But he was healthy overall. Martin had MHAQ scores of 0." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Eighteen percent of sons of mothers with high beef consumption had sperm levels lower than what the World Health Organization considers the lower limit of subfertil-ity—this rate of infertility is three times higher than sons of mothers with low beef consumption. Extrapolating, we have two theoretical potentials: sons of vegan mothers are more virile, and vegan men are more virile. Research has also shown that removing meat from your diet and eating a plant-sourced diet can reduce or eliminate asthma." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "An excess of saturated animal fats and trans-fatty acids is associated with increased diabetes, cancer of the breast and prostate, immune dysfunction, and infertility. Drs. Walter Willett and Alberto Ascherio of the Harvard School of Public Health have estimated that 30,000 premature deaths each year are attributable to our consumption of trans fats.9 Foods high in trans-fatty acids include: margarine, commercial peanut butter, and pre-packaged baked goods, cakes, pies, and cookies." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The staggering levels of infertility and birth defects alone should lead us to examine the authenticity of society's opinions about what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Is it actually realistic to assume that the high levels of birth defects, infertility, and miscarriage are chance happenings? Perhaps the innate wisdom of the body recognizes circumstances incompatible with life and communicates via an extreme response in the form of defect, miscarriage, or simply not allowing the process to be initiated?" - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"More evidence for a link between phthalates and reproductive abnormalities emerged from a 2006 study, published in Epidemiology, that tested men in an infertility clinic. Harvard School of Public Health researchers determined that the men with low sperm quality also had the highest levels of the phthalate DBP in their blood. 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." - 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.)

"While researchers don't yet know all the reasons for infertility, many believe that the prevalence of hormone mimics and endocrine disruptors in our environment might play a role. Exposure to these chemicals—which can be present in everything from toxic plastics and conventional laundry detergents to organophosphate pesticides?could disrupt the body's hormone signals that regulate reproduction and development, either by blocking, mimicking, or interfering with the action of hormones. "If left to our own devices, our bodies are really pretty good about making checks and balances," said Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"These data are strong evidence for dominantly inherited obesity, not associated with infertility, because of haploinsufficiency mutations in MC4R. Mutation of a second melanocortin receptor, MC3R, is also shown to cause single gene obesity [16]. MC3R acts as an autoreceptor indicating the tight regulation of the melanocortin system in energy balance. Two variants of the MC3R gene interact with diet to affect weight loss success in an Italian clinic treating severe childhood obesity [48]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"After the emotional roller-coaster ride of infertility treatments, my husband and I opted to adopt a sixth child, a godsend that satisfied my every maternal urge. At the age of forty-two I had it all—a wonderful family, an exciting career. But I was on the go day and night, and my forty-something body was changing. I began having symptoms that herbs and acupuncture couldn't seem to alter for more than a day or two. Sleep eluded me even though I was bone-tired most nights. Staying asleep also became difficult? a.m. and 5 a.m. were my new wake-up times." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Injectable Progesterone Injectable progesterone is usually only used to treat infertility or to prevent miscarriage. It was the only form of progesterone available before 1980, when pharmacists discovered how to suspend progesterone in oil. Hormones? Supplements? Everything? There are many effective herbal and vitamin supports that can dramatically improve hormone balance and, in particular, progesterone levels. Such treatments have been used effectively for centuries in both the East and the West. Supporting clinical studies abound." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Vaginal Preparations Vaginal preparations are usually used in cases where the uterus is in need of high doses of progesterone, such as infertility or uterine hyperplasia (overactive lining of the uterus, often with bleeding). From time to time with a patient who simply gets too depressed on progesterone, I prescribe progesterone vaginally. This provides the uterine benefits of progesterone without any possible moody side effects. A 2007 animal study showed that vaginal progesterone provided protection from estrogen effects to the breasts and uterine lining just as well as oral progesterone." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "You know them: the baby-booming, overachiev-ing, double-tasking women who fell into menopause somewhere between infertility drugs and breast-feeding. They not only believe in hormones, they believe in lots of hormones—enough to keep you menstruating into your sixties and beyond. On the other side are the straight-laced hormone abolitionists who think estrogen is the work of the devil. Surely there is a middle ground, a place from which to look clearly through the mist of studies proclaiming doom and gloom for all hormones, synthetic and natural." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Shortly after the women's visit to Brussels, the Center for Disease Control's National Survey on Family Growth concluded that the fastest growing segment of the population with "impaired fecundity"—i.e., infertility, an inability to conceive of or carry a child —is women under the age of twenty-five,s Eleonora Bruno's age group. Many scientists speculated that the infertility spike could be due, at least partly, to the abundance of chemicals to which the group is exposed: neither genetics nor lifestyle is enough on its own to explain the jump." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Their widest use outside hormone replacement therapy has been in the birth control pill, where they are used to create infertility. Just as with male and female rejuvenation ideas, the idea of enforced infertility was always backed by powerful industrial interests. Ideas about using hormones to suppress fertility date back to the 19th century. Such ideas really came to prominence with the Eugenics movement, which began in England at the end of the 1800s. In the 1930s, both the North American and German Governments were involved in eugenics programmes of sterilisation." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"The mind-body program for infertility: A new behavioral treatment approach for women with infertility. Ferti! Steril 53:246-9, 1990 93. Mueller, B. A., et al.: Recreational drug use and the tisk of primary infertility. Epidemiology 1:195-200, 1990 94- Roseveat, S. K., et al.: Smoking and decreased fertilization tates in vitro. Lancet 340:1195-6, 1992 95. Grodstein, F. et al.: infertility in women and moderate alcohol use. Am J Pub Health 84:1429-32, 1994 96. Wilcox, A. J. and Weinberg, C. R.: Tea and fertility. Lancet 337:1159-60, 1991 97. John, E. M., et al." - Joseph Nd Pizzorno, Total Wellness: Improve Your Health by Understanding and Cooperating with Your Body's Natural Healing Systems (Get the book.)

"The abnormalities documented in male test animals include testicular atrophy; undescended, misplaced, or absent testes; benign tumors of the testes; infertility; and absent or malformed prostate and seminal vesicles. The results of these tests are consistent with a range of abnormal trends we have been seeing in humans over the past few decades, including declining sperm counts in industrialized nations; increased incidence of undescended testes in U.S. males, which is associated with increased risk of testicular cancer; and increasing incidence of prostate and breast cancers." - 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.) "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.) "A study using men from an infertility clinic showed a strong relation between low sperm motility and levels of a phthalate metabolite in the urine (32). In spite of these findings, the industry still persists in refusing to list phthalates on product labels, using the highly misleading rationale that they are common ingredients in fragrances and thus exempt from labeling requirements because of trade secrecy laws. The 2007 Cosmetic Industry Review Compendium concludes that phthalates are "safe in the present practices of use and concentration in cosmetics" (22)." - 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.)

"Weschler encourages women to spend more time outside during daylight hours, and to try traditional Chinese medicine practices like acupuncture, which has proved very helpful both in reducing stress and in resolving the hormonal imbalances that can lead to infertility. After an ectopic pregnancy and two miscarriages in just two years, I felt doomed. No matter what I did, I simply couldn't have that baby my husband and I had dreamed about for so long. I was only twenty-eight years old—what was wrong with me?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"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. "They're overworked, sleep deprived, not happy, overweight, and stressed out, which is not the best environment for a conception or a pregnancy." Lawrence spends considerable time with the women who come to see her, making sure they take time to relax, eat the right foods, and manage their stress and sleep." - 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.)

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