Infertility: A Functional Medicine Approach

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This article addresses the issues of fertility and fecundability from a functional medicine point of view. Functional medicine can be characterized... (More) This article addresses the issues of fertility and fecundability from a functional medicine point of view. Functional medicine can be characterized as “upstream” medicine. Instead of using signs and symptoms to identify a disease and determine its treatment, functional medicine looks for mediating systems that cause symptoms and then asks what triggers those systems and what antecedents might predispose one person to react to that trigger and another to have no reaction. Infertility, as a symptom, is a reason to look upstream for the underlying causes and to ponder what rising rates of infertility mean for us as a species. (I will not cover reproductive technology or the usual medical interventions in the male or female infertility patient except in passing.) (Less)