Lifestyle Factors are all about managing what you have, rather than excluding or making dramatic changes. It’s possible to directly change five of the six factors, which then alter the impact of the sixth (age) on fertility levels. Lifestyle choices can dramatically improve or worsen health and fertility, and enhancing your health through lif...
Lifestyle Substances are things we can adjust how much we have in our lives. They all affect health and fertility, and managing how we engage with them is a lot easier once we know how they affect us, for better or worse. Not all the substances we list are bad; some drugs keep us alive, and supplements can be excellent at the right doses for ...
Health explains everything about our reproductive organs and how they should work to create pregnancies, as well as the role of sex hormones, semen and sperm tests and what happens in pregnancy. This section also gives clear advice on how to maximise your chances of conceiving each month and what needs to happen for it to occur! Male Health...
Endometriosis is one of the leading causes of reduced female fertility and can cause extreme pain and discomfort. There are multiple treatment options, but many of the medical treatments prevent pregnancy. However, natural treatment options are proving to be highly effective and raise fertility levels. The “Endometriosis package“ a...
Miscarriage happens more often than most people realise, and there are five different types of miscarriage, which need to be managed differently. Some of the situations can be life-threatening, and “threatened miscarriage” is the only situation that can be saved. It’s also crucial that the chances of recurrence are reduced as much as possible ...
Natural treatments for endometriosis are effective, have few side effects and revolve around diet, nutrition and herbs. Combinations of herbs have been used for centuries for the condition, and there is increasing research evidence to support their use. Herbs Research into herbal combinations to treat endometriosis shows significantly raised ...
Endometriosis has a variety of risk factors and these range from things you have no influence over (like genetics and hormone levels in the womb) to diet and what make-up you wear. While progress is slow in finding quick ways to diagnose endometriosis (typically four to eleven years from first reporting problems), we’re learning more about the...
High estrogen levels are a defining feature of endometriosis and are considered the most potent driver of the disease. Endometriosis nearly always stops growing when estrogen levels fall (at menopause or after medications), and the inflammatory action of estrogen is usually balanced by progesterone and testosterone. High estrogen levels are l...
Testosterone and progesterone levels and how the body responds to them are crucial elements in endometriosis. The relationship between testosterone and endometriosis occurs at two crucial points in life: when the baby girl is growing in the womb and later as an adult. Abnormally low testosterone levels in the womb increase a baby girl’s chanc...
Abnormal cells trigger an altered Immune state and inflammation, and these are core features and promoting factors for endometriosis growth. Inflammation and altered immune state are essential factors that allow endometriosis lesions to survive and grow. Immune imbalance and inflammation encourage each other, and in the case of endometriosis, ...
