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Natural Fertility Knowhow
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| Contact Name | Rebecca Tanner |
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| Servicing Areas | Hamilton Hill, Western Australia |
| Mobile | 0447 219 231 |
Fertility focused natural health care to maximise the health of parents to-be.
Natural Fertility Knowhow
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Rebecca Tanner graduated as a naturopath from the Sydney College of Natural Therapies in 1990, she also holds a degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of NSW. Rebecca gained her qualifications in Natural Fertility Management (Care) with natural fertility specialist and author Francesca Naish. Rebecca has been a naturopath for almost 20 years and has extensive experience working in women's health and with couples planning for pregnancy or working through fertility issues. Rebecca has studied acupuncture and uses this modality in order to best support her patients undergoing IVF.
What is Natural FertilityCare?
Why is it so relevant now?
Who would benefit from Natural fertility care?
Are there any studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of Natural fertility care?
The Foresight Association is a preconception care organization in the UK. Research by the University of Surrey on the Foresight Program followed the progress of 387 couples and was published in the Journal of Nutrition and Environmental Medicine in 1995. By the end of the study, 89% of the couples had given birth to a healthy baby, including 81% of those who were previously “infertile”.
The University of New England (UNE) is conducting a similar study of 67 couples on the natural fertility program offered by the Jocelyn Centre (founded by Francesca Naish) in Sydney. Rebecca Tanner has trained with Francesca Naish.
A well orchestrated miracle.
Conception is a well orchestrated miracle that can be influenced by a myriad of subtle and more obvious factors often difficult to pinpoint with standard medical tests. When a couple is diagnosed with “unexplained Infertility” it means doctors can find no physical reason for the problem.
Generally speaking fertility is a corollary of good health. In secondary or “unexplained infertility” general health is often compromised and the “luxury” of being fertile is often put on standby. The effects of poor nutrition, environmental toxicity, sedentary living and stress combined with the fact that many of us are delaying childbearing are important reasons why our fertility is being gradually eroded.
As a Naturopath specializing in fertility support I see nutrition as key to the treatment of secondary infertility. Every aspect of reproductive health is dependent on an adequate supply of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and Fatty acids. There is plenty of evidence that animals given diets deficient in certain nutrients are unable to reproduce – the same is true for humans too.
The effect of our 20th centuary “environmental burden” or toxicity on human reproductive capacity is something scientists are only just beginning to understand. One of the most dramatic effects is on men. An analysis of 61 studies on sperm counts has shown a considerable decline over the last 50 years and scientific evidence points to the exposure of chemicals and toxins as being causative (1). A targeted detox program for 3-6 weeks is often a necessary at the commencement of a natural fertility treatment.
There is no doubt fertility is compromised by the fact that we are having children later in life. A woman’s fertility peaks in her 20s declines in 30s and declines further by her late 30s and early 40s – The accepted dogma that men retain there fertility well into there fifties and beyond is now being challenged and it is becoming obvious that there are problems with male sperm as they age as well.
As we get older and the body pays more attention to maintaining other systems and our reproductive focus starts to decline. Our eggs and sperm (like any other cell in our body) respond to their environment so it seems logical that if we could encourage the body to return to more youthful levels of hormone balance, nutrients and blood flow, then the ovaries and sperm would benefit. There are many Herbal and nutritional therapies that can improve these parameters.
In practice I often see women who have been previously diagnosed as infertile fall pregnant when certain symptoms start to change or appear. Often it is simply a case of their “wellness factor” or energy levels improving or positive changes in their menstrual cycles including the presence of fertile mucous (an essential medium for sperm transport) that soon herald conception.
Wether it is a general issue of poor health or a subtle imbalance in hormones Natural fertility support aims to help men and women identify their fertile body signs and take control of their health so as to help orchestrate miracles- naturally ( just add love!).
Article written by Rebecca Tanner BSc, ND.
Rebecca Tanner graduated as a naturopath from the Sydney College of Natural Therapies in 1990and later received an Advanced Certificate in Natural Fertility Managment. Rebecca holds a degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of NSW and has lectured at Nature Care and The Australian College of Natural Therapies in Sydney.
(1) Swan SH, Elkin EP. Declining semen quality: can the past inform the present?
BioEssays 21:614-621, 1999.
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Acupuncture, Herbalists, Homoeopaths, Natural Fertility Management, Naturopaths, Nutrition, Womens Health
Rebecca Tanner -
Naturopath and Acupuncturist from Natural Fertility Knowhow in Hamilton Hill
