Chinese Medicine has become a well-known support for fertlity, even as fertility technology has advanced with procedures like IVF, ICSI and egg donation.  Today we'll learn how ancient medicine can support new technology.

For well over a decade, Dr. Lee Hullender Rubin has been helping women and men build their families.  As a doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine specializing in fertility treatment, she uses acupuncture, Chinese herbs, diet and lifestyle counseling, and some basic supplements to support her patients to achieve their family building goals, depending the needs and preferences of the patients.

She works alongside fertility doctors during high tech fertility treatments or provides natural fertility treatments. Dr. Hullender Rubin is also a researcher, so she casts are critical eye on how treatments help, and which treatments provide the greatest benefit to her fertility patients.

As our guest today on Sperm Meets Egg, she will present to us the research and statistics on:
Rates of infertlityRates of IVF successWhat can cause IVF to failResearch on efficacy of acupuncture with IVFRisks and benefits of acupuncture
Please tune in! Learn more about Dr. Lee Hullender Rubin and her clinic, Portland Acupuncture Studio, here.

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Portland Acupuncture Studio's facebook page

To learn more about your host, Bridgit Danner, and her online functional medicine practice for women, please visit BridgitDanner.com.

Look out for our next episode in two weeks on coping with grief, nosy relatives over the holidays!