Dr. Mercola October 24 2001 917 views
Women undergoing infertility treatments are bound to feel stressed by the sometimes uncomfortable and nerve-wracking procedures, but the success of their treatment may in part depend on minimizing worries and fears.
Women who felt optimistic at the outset that the treatment would work were more likely to give birth. In fact, the most stressed-out women were 93% less likely to have a baby by the end of the 5-year study compared with their more relaxed peers.
This research determined that success rates for in vitro fertilization (IVF), may in part, be related to psychological stress. Clinicians could play an important role in counseling couples about stress reduction.
Women who reported the highest stress levels at the outset had fewer eggs retrieved and fertilized, compared with women who expressed optimism that they would become pregnant. Stressed women also had fewer embryos transferred into their wombs.
Women who reported feeling angry, hostile or depressed had fewer eggs to fertilize and fewer embryos to transfer. The babies of women who felt "guilty" for considering stopping fertility treatment had lower average birth weights, and women who said that they "would do anything for a child" were five times more likely to have a multiple birth.
Fertility and Sterility October 2001;76:675-687
More powerful evidence of the pervasive influence that stress can have on our overall health and ability to reproduce.
Traditional counseling and cognitive psychotherapy may be marginally effective for this problem.
But until the last few years there were really no good tools that were consistently and rapidly effective in removing these types of emotional traumas that lead to such types of destructive and continued emotionally devastating behavior.
Thankfully bioenergetic medicine has come to the rescue. Two of the leaders in this field are Gary Craig and Dr. Larry Nims.
Gary has developed EFT and Dr. Nims has a similar but even more rapid and effective technique called Be Set Free Fast.
Their work has literally transformed every treatment I provide in my office. I believe it is an essential tool for healing.
I believe so strongly in this that I will be offering my first local lecture in Chicago that is open to patients in mid November. It will be four hours and will only be $49 to attend. Unfortunately I will have to limit the course to 50 people.
Those who attend will likely be able to:
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