Your health history is like a roadmap that highlights significant events, conditions, and environmental factors that may have shaped your current state of health. It is crucial to take a deep dive into your health history in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of your current health and opportunities for improvement. Your health history provides valuable insights into factors that may influence your well-being and can use in tailoring personalized treatment plans to address your specific needs. This will include family medical history, past and current medical conditions, lifestyle factors, environmental exposures, and medication and supplement history.

Nutritional supplements are used to help support the body's reproductive health in many ways. It is important to begin boosting your body now with vitamins and minerals it will need throughout pregnancy, as well as support it with additional nutrients to improve reproductive health.

When it comes to choosing what type of supplements to use and sourcing them, we always work from a research-driven, evidence-based method. This feeds into our prescription process, from selection to dosages, to uses. We recommend only the highest quality supplements with the greatest bioavailability. This ensures we are using pure nutrients that will be absorbed and utilized.

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine is a cornerstone of our program. Taking personalized herbal formulas is akin to putting training wheels on your menstrual cycle. We customize different gynecological formulas for each phase of your cycle, and thus are able each day to encourage your body to shift towards a more optimal fertile picture. By giving herbs during different phases of your cycle, we will be reminding your body how to shift hormonally to optimize your cycle at each phase. If your cycle is already in a balanced state, we will focus on egg quality support.

Our herbs are gentle yet extremely effective and create real physiological change. The process is dynamic and your herbs are adjusted as your situation changes. Our coaches are California Board Certified herbalists.

Eating certain foods and avoiding others has been medically proven to improve the ovulatory function of a woman and increase her chances of becoming pregnant. When it comes to food choices there are so many different diets and recommendations out there. We will customize a dietary plan that will weave together what foods to be eating and what foods to avoid.

Functional medicine can provide an adjunctive care option to those struggling with infertility. Often there are root causes that are not detected with routine lab work. The DUTCH, Metabolomix+ with add-ons of Toxic Element Clearance and Omegas, are all included in our program.

The DUTCH Complete is one of the top functional labs for female infertility. This is a dried urine test typically done on cycle days 19, 20, or 21 of a 29-day cycle in order to properly assess luteal phase progesterone levels plus estrogen, estrogen metabolism, DHEAs and DHEA metabolites, testosterone, melatonin, metabolized cortisol and free cortisol (with the free cortisol pattern).

The Metabolomix+ test is a valuable tool for detecting many nutrient deficiencies, which is especially important for those with unexplained infertility. This test also evaluates oxidative stress, which is linked to poor egg quality. We also add-on Toxic Element Clearance to test for potentially harmful toxic metals, and a test to measure fatty acids.

In addition, if we see the need for further testing, such as thyroid, toxins, gut microbiome, or insulin resistance panels, we can order and review.

We are not only testing and reviewing but most importantly supplying recommendations to heal the root causes and give you the best chance at conception.

Knowledge is power when it comes to your reproductive health. The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a form of cycle tracking which helps women balance their hormones, and sync their body and lifestyle with their menstrual cycle. By tracking your cycle and ovulation, you can best predict how fertile you are on any given day.

How does cycle tracking work? When you are sleeping or very relaxed the core temperature of your body drops. This low, resting temperature is called your basal body temperature (BBT). By charting your BBT each morning upon waking, we get a sneak peek at where your body’s hormones are every day of your cycle. When combined with other markers we can get a clear picture of your cycle and use this information to continue fine-tuning our custom recommendations for you.

We also focus on cycle syncing, which is the practice of adapting your health and lifestyle habits to the four phases of your menstrual cycle. The hormonal changes that occur during each phase of your cycle affect nearly every aspect of your life from energy levels to mood, to sleep to sex drive. Cycling tracking combined with cycle syncing offers an effective way to optimize and respond to these natural monthly shifts.

We recognize that the intricacies of IVF and IUI can be overwhelming. We can offer comprehensive support and guidance to help navigate your IVF and IUI journey. Our coaches are fellows of ABORM giving them advanced competencies in both Western Medicine and Chinese Medical Reproductive Endocrinology, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Urology, Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. ABORM members are kept abreast of the utmost current research in the field of male and female fertility treatments and remain actively involved in clinical research.

Our coaches take great care in educating and guiding you through every step of the process. We explain the various stages of treatment, potential risks and side effects, medication protocols, hormone monitoring, and cycle timing. Our goal is to empower you with knowledge and enable you to make well-informed decisions.

Moderation is key. We will recommend what adequate sleep should look like and what exercises would be optimal for you. Different kinds of exercises will be more beneficial for certain people and not for others, and this is where customization is key. We will also work with you to review all other lifestyle factors (eg stress, grief, addiction) in order to create a tailored plan for optimizing your lifestyle toward being the most fertile one.