Research

Stephanie is quoted throughout this article on using acupuncture during pregnancy! There's lots of good information and evidence for acupuncture during pregnancy.

We are honored to have not one but two fertility enhancement books written by providers here at Acupuncture Northwest & Associates. Dr. Cindy Lawrence has just written, The Elements of Fertility...

A new meta analysis published in 2019 has found that acupuncture around embryo transfer increases success rates. This research looked at 20 trials and over 5000 women. The...

Manual therapy for fertility enhancement is an effective treatment that should be incorporated into treatment plans for patients having a difficult time trying to conceive naturally and/or with...

Convincing new research on Whole Systems Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and IVF.On live births with donor cycles: TCM was associated with a three fold increase in live birth...

Here is a link to a great article written by Lee Hullender Rubin, LAc, DAOM, from Portland, OR.  The article discusses how much acupuncture is appropriate in order...

A new study by Seattle Reproductive Medicine shows that frozen donor eggs as efficient as fresh!  See Article.

There are studies showing BPA levels may decrease male fertility and increase risk of miscarriage.  BPA is a synthetic estrogen found in the lining of cans and hard...

Research suggests that acupuncture helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system’s “relaxation response,” as well as boosting the nervous system’s production of mood-improving endorphins and encephalins.  Here’s the link.

This study is fascinating! Healthy lifestyle positively affected the DNA in men.  Here’s the link.(Thanks Dr. Lee Hullender Rubin)

Here is a great article on how Eastern fertility medicine increases Western fertility medicine outcomes!  But, we knew this already!!Article.

A new study showed that IVF patients receiving acupuncture and moxibustion had pregnancy rates 500% higher than control groups and more than 300% higher than the sham acupuncture...

A Harvard study recently showed that men who watched more than 20 hours a week of TV had 44% lower sperm concentration.  However, those who are watching lots...

A promising study was published in February 2011 showing that Chinese herbal medicine may be helpful in reducing insulin resistance.  Here is a link to the study and...

Several new studies have been recently published on treating the cardiovascular system using acupuncture.  Here is an article outlining the latest:  Acupuncture and the Heart article.

Acupuncturists have teamed up with western doctors in a novel approach to the treatment of pain!  Injecting substances into acupuncture points. Here’s the link.

Here is a good article on using acupuncture for stress and anxiety reduction published on Acufinder.com.Acupuncture for Stress and AnxietyBy: Lynn Jaffee, LAc, Dipl. OM, MaOMAt one time...

A study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology on May 26th links caffeine with female infertility.Caffeine reduces muscle activity in the Fallopian tubes that carry eggs from...

A new study shows promise for creating sperm in the laboratory.Read more here.

Researchers have pinpointed a genetic mutation that may help explain why some men are less fertile than normal, a new study in the 20 July issue of the...