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How to Increase Your IVF Success Rate Naturally

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By Hethir


You can help to increase the health of your eggs!
You can help to increase the health of your eggs!

Your Guide to Increasing Your IVF Success Rate...

To increase your IVF success naturally, I have written this brief guide too help you. This guide will give you methods which have undergone study and have proven, at least in some cases, to help increase IVF success rate naturally, as well as improving egg health.

It must be noted before we get too deeply into the guide here that none of the supplements which are mentioned here in this guide should be taken once you begin IVF medications. You should complete the program of supplements described here before you begin these medications. The ideal situation here is to take these supplements for three months prior to beginning IVF medications in tandem with the fertility diet.

To increase your IVF success rate, follow this three step strategy.


Watch Video: Prepare for Conception with a Fertility Cleanse

Step One - Cleanse

To increase IVF success naturally, you need to lay the groundwork for a successful conception. To a large extent, the success of a IVF procedure depends on healthy eggs and proper implantation of the embryo. However, you need to keep this in mind – the life cycle of your eggs is about 90 days. During this time, the health of your eggs can be affected by factors including your diet, your stress level and your circulation. To ensure good egg health, you should begin preparing yourself 90 days ahead of time.

The first step is to clear out all of the toxins and hormones before adding good nutrition and supplements. The first step includes:

Fertility cleansing

A fertility cleanse will clear out excess hormones and toxins from your liver. This cleans will also remove stagnant blood and old tissue from your uterus. You should begin this cleanse the day after your period ends.


Watch Video: How to Increase Your Egg Health

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Step Two - Nourish

After completing the cleanse, you will focus on providing your eggs with the nourishment which they need and on preparing your uterine lining for implantation. These are two things which we can have a lot of control over. This step is done through diet in conjunction with herbs and other nutritional supplements.

The Fertility Diet

A few months before your IVF, begin eating a fertility diet. Getting nutrient dense foods is vital to producing healthy eggs and promoting implantation of the embryo

Take a Multivitamin

A prenatal multivitamin can be a great help in getting you the nutrition you need for egg health and preparing the lining of your uterus. My favorite is Mega Food’s 100% whole food Baby and Me multivitamin. A synthetic multivitamin just can’t offer you all of the benefits that this vitamin does.

Use Supporting supplements

COQ10- CoQ10 helps to keep the eggs integrity by protecting them from free radicals. Coq10 is best taken for two to three months before having IVF.

L-arginine - L-arginine is an amino acid which has shown promise in increasing ovarian response, endometrial receptivity, and pregnancy rates in IVF patients who supplemented in large doses (16 grams) of L-arginine. (Published in Human Reproduction 1999). L-arginine


Watch Video: Fertility Superfood Maca

Watch Video: Fertility Superfood Royal Jelly

Use Fertility Superfoods

These are extremely nutrient dense foods which offer great benefits to you each time they are ingested. Personally, I favor putting all of these fertility superfoods into a "fertility smoothie".

• Maca

Maca is a nutritional powerhouse which helps you to achieve proper hormonal balance by nourishing your endocrine system, although it does not contain any hormones itself. Hormonal balance is essential for a successful IVF, since this makes for healthier eggs.

• Royal jelly/propolis

These superfoods increase the quality and quantity of eggs. Royal jelly is the food produced by bees which turns an ordinary bee into a queen, capable of producing as many as 2,000 eggs per day. You should take this supplement for at least two months before beginning IVF procedures.

Royal jelly is the hormonal stimulant used by queen bees to ensure plenty of offspring. You should take this supplement daily in order to achieve the best results. However, if you are, or think that you may be allergic to bees, stay away from this and all other bee products.

• Spirulina

This nutrient dense algae contains a wealth of minerals, antioxidants and protein which feeds your eggs with the nutrients they need and alkalinizes your body. Take this supplement daily, one tsp.

Step Three - Nurture

The last part of this program to increase IVF success is to use two therapies which are proven to help the success rate of IVF. These are used right before beginning the procedure and immediately after beginning.

Acupuncture and IVF

Recent studies have show that women who undergo acupuncture within one day after embryo transfer increase the rate of a successful implantation by as much as 65% compared to those who either did not undergo acupuncture or who had a “fake acupuncture” procedure performed.

To further increase your chances of success, get in touch with your acupuncturist long before your IVF procedure to make sure that they will be available, since timing is vital for this procedure.

Hypnosis

Hypnosis has also been shown to be useful in increasing IVF success rates. In one study, women who underwent hypnosis had twice the success rate of women who did not employ hypnosis.

Hypnosis is one of the easiest things which you can use to prepare for your IVF. Before, during and after the IVF procedure are all times when you can benefit from a hypnosis procedure and there are hypnosis CDs which are made specifically for IVF purposes. You can use these CDs on a daily basis before and after your procedure, as well as during. Hypnosis will also produce a calming effect, helpful during the stress of preparing for an IVF procedure.

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any  says:
7 months ago

By chance i hv stumbled on this article and i found it really very informative .Lang .is also very simple for laymen.

tm  says:
7 months ago

Interesting article but it seems to assume that it's only women who have fertility problems. It would be nice to have information about what men should do increase chances of success especially where there are issues with sperm quality. I know L-Arginine also has some benefit for sperm quality so maybe you can add that too. It takes two to tango you know!

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Hethir  says:
7 months ago

TM, I completely agree with you. Men have just as much responsibility and fertility problems as women can have. I have created a complete guide to natural male fertility therapies. It can be found here: http://hubpages.com/hub/mens-fertility

Mrs Fm  says:
6 months ago

is Maca safe to take whilst during injections for IVF? Most literature would say to avoid such things as they can meddle with the process. Anyone know?

Timi  says:
6 months ago

how do I cleanse my body from toxens

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Hethir  says:
6 months ago

Mrs Fm

It is best to not mix herbs and fertility medications as we do not know how they will interact. Herbs and natural therapies need to be applied well before an IVF or medical fertility treatment as natural treatments take at least 3 months to have their overall effect.

Timi

You can cleanse your body in preparation for conception with a Fertility Cleanse. You can learn more about that here: http://www.fertilitycleanse.com

J.M  says:
5 months ago

Hi. Found the article very informative.I have come across a doctor,OB GYNE who advised not to have Acupuncture coz it can also cause abortion.The doctor does not also believe that Accupuncture can increase the success of IVF treatment.What do you think?I have been toying with the idea of having accupuncture from the recomendation of my friend though.

Linn  says:
3 months ago

Hi Hethir. What an interesting and informative article! Well done! I'm planning to go for IVF in 3 mths time. How do i get the hypnosis CDs?

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Hethir  says:
3 months ago

Hi J.M. There are tons of studies supporting the belief in acupuncture increasing IVF results as well as having the capability to help prevent miscarriages. Here is one:

Fertility and Sterility. Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy. Vol 77, No 4, 2002

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