Eastern Medicine. Snake Oil or the Key to Fertility?

Uncategorized 5 December 2008 1 Comment

My readers already know I’m a Southern girl. I grew up in a community where the words “Eastern Medicine” and “Holistic Healing” would likely be interpreted as something a doctor from New York would do and some unusual Sunday church ritual (respectively). If you went on to explain that you were actually referring to medicine from East Asia, the person you’d be speaking to might ask, “Is that anything like what them voodoo folk do in New Orleans?”

Some of you may be laughing at me, but after my previous post, I got some emails from folks that were a bit outraged that I suggested that “infertility” is a condition largely made up by pharmaceutical companies to profit off of emotionally vulnerable women.

One man wrote the following:

Angie,

My wife and I are huge fans of your blog. It’s given us a lot of insight and inspiration, but I’m honestly a bit offended that you would say that infertility is “made up.” It feels like a slap in the face to hear you say that.

My wife and I have been trying to conceive for 28 months now, and it’s not looking good for us. How can you tell us we’re just imagining this?!

Perhaps there’s something I’m not understanding about the Eastern view of infertility. Could you please explain this better?

Looking forward to hearing from you,

T——–, NM

I completely understand this reader’s outrage so I’d like to better explain why I’m convinced Eastern medicine holds the key to infertility.

Eastern medicine looks at the entire body a complex interrelated system, and not just at its malfunctioning parts.

As you already know, cancer often originate in one part of the body and spreads to other parts of the body. This sad reality is well known and widely accepted, there is nothing controversial about it. The cancer, although it originates in one place, does not care about distinction of body parts, it sees all cells in the body as the same

Now, let’s talk about how Western medicine perceives and attempts to treat infertility. The Western approach to infertility seeks to find what is “broken” in the reproductive organs and fix it. The assumption is that, if you can’t get pregnant, the problem must originate in the reproductive organs and related glands. However, what if the source of the problem were not actually IN the vagina/uterus/ovaries, but only manifested there. What if the root cause of infertility were actually in the kidneys? As it happens to be, Chinese medicine does believe that the kidneys play a primary role in reproductive health.

Are you surprised?

I found this strange at first too, but I quickly realized that there is absolutely nothing that suggests that my infertility originates in my reproductive system. As it all started to become clearer, I began to see how fertility drugs do not solve the cause of infertility, but only treat it superficially.
Therefore, in order to treat infertility properly,  a holistic, or “whole-body” approach is necessary, and this is precisely what is offered in the Eastern techniques taught in The Pregnancy Miracle.

What with “Energy?” Sounds like hocus-pocus to me.

Not quite. In the Pregnancy Miracle, Lisa discusses different kinds of energies (e.g. ying, yang, chi, etc.) to explain “imbalances” in the body that cause infertility. Although this sounds like some “new age” nonsense at first, it’s actually quite logical. In fact, I now find it bizarre that the concept of energy is entirely missing from Western medicine.

If we accept that the body is indeed a complex, interrelated whole, rather than a bunch of loosely related parts, then we need some way to understand how each part of the body communicates with the rest. Western medicine breaks the body into individual “systems,” where the “blood” is the messenger of the cardiovascular system, neurons are the messengers of the nervous system. But the Western approach still fails to explain how all of these systems coexist within the body. How do they all work together? This is precisely what the concept of “energy” explains in eastern medicine – how the bodies parts function with respect to whole at the most basic level.

Still sound a bit farfetched? Well take this into consideration – Western medicine accepts that the nervous system is literally an electrical network. Read that again, electrical network. So the significant of energies isn’t hocus pocus afterall? Western medicine doesn’t reject the concept of energy in the body, it just offers an incomplete account.

Ok. So what’s this talk about “broken” vs “imbalanced?”

Excellent question. I previously said that my Western doctors labeled me “infertile” due to my abnormally high FSH levels. That’s it. In their eyes, my body was broken. In order to fix it, they would need introduce foreign substances into my body, namely fertility drugs, which made me feel sick and didn’t help me get pregnant for 3 years.

The Eastern approach in The Pregnancy Miracle does not accept that I am broken nor that I need outside help to be fixed. Instead, it believes that I am “imbalanced” and that the “cure” does not require much outside help, but a realignment of the forces within my body. Besides the fact that that is an incredibly empowering mindset, it also opens up pathways to alternative cures for infertility such as acupuncture, herbal supplementation, special dieting, meditation, etc.

With this said, any woman that has been diagnosed as “infertile” should be EXTREMELY interested in the Holistic approach of the Pregnancy Miracle.

I hope this has helped resolve a lot of misconceptions around Eastern medicine as a path to fertility. I am absolutely convinced that the Eastern approach is much more effective for women with fertility problems.

If you haven’t already joined our community of Pregnancy Miracle mommies and daddies , please download the Pregnancy Miracle now. You have too much to gain, and absolutely nothing to lose. Remember, the program comes with a 100% money back guarantee if you’re not absolutely convinced that it will help you get pregnant.

I sincerely hope this post will encourage many more couples to join our no-is-not-an-option fertility community! Can’t wait to have you with us!

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Infertility – Medical Condition or $2 Billion Pharmaceutical Scam?

Uncategorized 21 November 2008 2 Comments

If you’ve read my story, you already know that I spent many years with the belief that I was simply infertile. Nothing more. Nothing less. My doctors labeled me “prematurely menopausal,” and that was my sentence. For a long time, like many other “infertile” women, I felt extremely depressed and it affected my relationships with friends and my husband.

I was broken. I believed it because my doctors believed it.

Deep inside though, somewhere, there was a glimpse of doubt. Disbelief. Hope. And I now realize I should have listened to this part of myself sooner.

As I’ve learned from The Pregnancy Miracle, the idea of infertility, as a type of “brokenness,” is truly a Western construct. It is propagated by a $2 Billion fertility drug industry, who often purchases the favor of doctors. As a result, pharmaceutical companies take advantage of women in their most desperate state.

PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES POISON OUR BODIES WITH CHEMICALS THAT CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE REPRODUCTIVE DAMAGE.

Here is the interesting thing about all of this.

In Chinese, there is no word for “infertile.” Only imbalanced.

It’s a small wonder then that Eastern healers have been helping women conceive for thousands of years with no intervention from harmful pharmaceutical drugs.

So I ask you, are you infertile, or imbalanced?

Did you notice how you actually felt more empowered and able to conceive when you changed your mindset from infertile to imbalanced? Can you feel a realm of possibilities out there? Can you imagine the different paths to “realignment?” When was the last time your doctors tried to help you find balance instead of trying fix you?

These are all of the thoughts that have been going through my head over the past few weeks as a result of reading the Pregnancy Miracle. Besides learning my body better and timing my peak fertility, I have also been using a variety of Eastern techniques and insights to help me get pregnant.

I feel truly blessed that I’ve found the Pregnancy Miracle at this point in my life. I will be posting up some more Eastern fertility secrets in the near future. In the mean time, I ask you to take a step back to reconsider your beliefs about infertility and how you’ve been approaching the challenge of getting pregnant. I hope that, like me and the many women that have joined me on my journey, you will find it within yourself to stop fighting against your body and learn to appreciate its glorious design. I hope that you will find it within yourself to learn to understand your bodies messages, and strive towards a “rebalancing” rather than a “fixing.”

You are not broken. You are beautiful. You will get pregnant.

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Just want to send a quick shout out to all of the readers that have emailed and commented. It means the world to me to have you on my side. To all of my Pregnancy Miracle Mom’s and Dad’s that are on this journey at this very moment, please know that I have you in my prayers every night. And if you haven’t yet found the courage to join us, please do. There’s never been a better time to change your life.

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