I will be interviewing Ray Rubio on the topic of Male Fertility.  Ray is the president of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM), a member in good standing with the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS), and a professional member of Resolve, and the American Fertility Association, and a licensed acupuncturist who has been specializing in the treatment of infertility using acupuncture and other chinese medicine protocols for over a decade.  Click this link to enter webinar.

1. Are there reputable studies that show the efficacy of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine in the treatment of male infertility?

2. In respect to the recent decline in male fertility, how much of an issue are toxins in our environment (i.e. phthalates, scented items, pollution, pesticides, xenoestrogens, etc)?

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine recently published another study that points toward the risks of IVF.  The November issue of Fertility and Sterility printed a study of information collected by the perinatal database for the province on Ontario.  The information was collected at 82 different centers totaling over 61,000 deliveries.  IVF babies are 54% more likely to be born with defects of the musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular systems that babies born from natural conception.

Fertil Steril 2009;92:1557-61

 In this first prospective, randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled study, 28 infertile patients with severe oligoasthenozoospermia received acupuncture according to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and 29 infertile patients received placebo acupuncture.