Difficulty conceiving?
Meet Infertility Doctors: Bridging The Gap to Parenthood
An increasing number of couples, now about 1 in 8 in North America, for example, face serious difficulty conceiving. In Functional Medicine, we look to get to the individual’s to the individual’s hidden, root cause of hormonal and other imbalances within the body.
LIFESTYLE
Some of these often-overlooked causes of infertility can be improved with lifestyle changes.
Lifestyle is a crucial aspect of enhancing fertility. This involves assisting you in establishing a good circadian rhythm schedule and ensuring you have enough restorative sleep to support the adrenal glands and all hormones.
Many people are not getting enough rest, so we aim to achieve 7-9 hours of high-quality sleep to rejuvenate the adrenals, incorporating specific botanical support.
Conventional medicine does not prioritize these important glands. Naturally, how you nourish yourself plays a significant role in fertility. A woman might also have a major nutritional deficiency preventing her body from conceiving.
If the body perceives a lack of essential nutrients, conception can be challenging or even impossible. Therefore, diet plays a significant role in fertility. Functional Medicine providers recognize this, and a specific, nutrient-dense food plan is an essential element of success. Do you know your nutritional deficiencies that might be hindering conception or maintaining your pregnancy?
Conventional medicine seldom tests for these nutritional, especially mineral, deficiencies. Additionally, reducing stress and the stress hormone cortisol is of critical importance. This hormone can have a profound impact on your brain and body. Do you know exactly how much or how little cortisol is working for or against you in your body? In Functional Medicine, we test for these levels!
ADVANCED TESTING
At Advanced Integrated Health, we work to evaluate all of the systems in a person’s body when they are dealing with infertility, including a full scope of their hormonal health.
This includes advanced testing for thyroid levels, adrenal levels, and sex hormone levels.
Often, women need thyroid support, as inadequate thyroid hormone levels can be a hidden, root cause of their infertility. We also test for signs of insulin resistance when investigating hormonal health. That’s because the loss of blood-sugar control may lead to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Women with PCOS have substantially lower fertility.
Additionally, if they become pregnant, they have a substantially increased risk for gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia, preterm birth, and even death. Screening for autoimmune conditions, including celiac disease or autoimmune thyroiditis, can also provide us with valuable information, as these can cause malabsorption, inflammation, and nutrient deficiencies that can make the body unable to support a new life.
Conventional treatments, such as IVF, will often fail if these causes are ignored. The good news is that by utilizing these advanced metabolic tests, we uncover these root causes. This enables us to reverse frustrating symptoms and regain fertility when previous methods have failed.
TOXICITY
Another significant, common, yet totally missing piece of the infertility puzzle is toxicity, the increasing toxic load of environmental toxins in both men and women.
More than 80,000 chemicals are registered in the U.S., and nearly 2,000 new chemicals are introduced each year. Many scientists believe that safety testing for health is not adequate and that the rapid introduction of these chemicals poses significant, long-term risks to human health.
Specifically, scientists have known for years that environmental toxic exposure can alter hormonal balance and disrupt fertility. Here at Advanced Integrated Health, we strive to support the body’s natural detoxification processes using products and technology that most doctors are completely unaware of. Most conventionally trained doctors do not understand the art and science of helping your body eliminate excess hormones and any present toxins.
Numerous toxins impact our hormones, such as BPA, phthalates, parabens, and pesticides, to name a few. Has your doctor tested you for heavy metals? If not, why not? Without testing, it is difficult to know with certainty the extent to which your body has accumulated these poisons.
Fortunately, while most doctors ignore the role of these toxic metals, at Advanced Integrated Health, we do consider environmental factors that affect health and have advanced testing to uncover these hidden factors of poor health. Specifically, heavy metal exposure has also been implicated in infertility.
Heavy metals that affect reproductive activity include lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic. These metals are quickly absorbed and stored deeply in tissues such as the brain, liver, kidneys, and bones to prevent immediate harm, as they are not easily broken down or excreted by the body.
This is the problem, as they tend to accumulate, causing metabolic disruptions that can lead to infertility, poor sperm, and miscarriages. If you would like to know if you have environmental chemicals and/or heavy metal toxicity, an advanced yet simple test is a urine test. Excreting an elevated level of these heavy metals is a sure sign of toxicity. The best, most advanced lab that offers heavy metal testing.
DETOXIFICATION
Are you having regular bowel movements, eating sufficient fiber, drinking enough water, and sweating, in order to fully help the body eliminate toxins?
At Advanced Integrated Health, we ensure you’re engaging in all these practices! However, that alone isn’t sufficient. In Functional Medicine, we employ cutting-edge detoxification protocols to assist your body in eliminating poisons that interfere with optimal health, including fertility. Normally, your immune system defends against the daily assault of environmental chemicals, such as pesticides and heavy metal toxicity, but only when it is functioning correctly and not overwhelmed by the extremely high toxic burden all around us.
The failure of your body’s natural ability to detoxify itself from toxins results in health issues, including infertility. Supporting the body’s ability to bind to and eliminate toxins is a key part of healing from this toxic exposure. Therefore, it’s crucial to support your body’s natural detoxification and drainage systems. New, emerging technology designed to help remove toxins and support drainage systems (your body’s natural ability to eliminate poisons from itself) is necessary to successfully recover from this kind of toxicity. Let’s examine this more closely.
How do I get rid of these toxins in my body? Special agents that bind toxins in the gut and other tissues, making them more easily excreted, are required for this. An excellent natural remedy for binding environmental toxins is called carbon technology, made of specially selected and precisely formulated extracts of fulvic and humic acids. Carbon Technology uses these natural substances to tightly bind toxins, helping to remove them from your body via stools.
So, if you’ve ever asked, “What is my doctor missing?” and suspect that toxicity may be a part of your persistent fertility challenges, do not give up. If you’ve been struggling with infertility and you’re not sure where to start, partnering with a Functional Medicine practitioner to help you determine and understand the hidden root causes of your infertility using advanced testing is key.
CREDENTIALS
Transitioning from nutritional deficiency to nutritional sufficiency and from cellular toxicity to cellular purity is the natural and superior way to support your infertility. Addressing these aspects enables you to return to looking, feeling, and functioning at your best. Most importantly, it greatly improves your fertility chances. The good news is that at Advanced Integrated Health, there are experienced doctors with specialized knowledge ready with a science-backed action plan to directly remove these toxins. Welcome to the world of Functional Medicine.
ABOUT US
Dr. Bob’s interest in the exciting and emerging field of Functional Medicine, utilizing whole food concentrates (a superior form of nutritional supplements), was inspired by his desire to help his mom. Unable to address her raging blood sugar problem with conventionally trained doctors, she naturally turned to her son for assistance.
He successfully guided her to avoid the chronic condition of diabetes, motivating him to delve deeper into advanced nutrition and cutting-edge testing to uncover the root causes of modern-day diseases. After graduating from Cornell University, Dr. Jason spent six years as a pharmaceutical representative, concluding his career at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic. Ironically, it was this experience with conventional medicine’s inability to address his own health issues that redirected his focus away from the pharmaceutical industry and conventional wisdom toward the world that had ignited his passion years before in high school – the world of advanced nutrition.
Dr. Bob is a Certified Natural Functional Medicine Practitioner and Clinician’s Mastermind Circle member of The Gaeta Institute for Wholistic Health Education. He has successfully completed its ongoing yearly trainings for over seven years and continues to do so. It is crucial to collaborate with an experienced practitioner who can recommend the right supplements to nourish your body and understands the role of toxins in interfering with a healthy pregnancy. This is the hope of the Functional Medicine experts at Advanced Integrated Health and the promise of The Roadmap to Health.
Dr. Robert White, D.C.
Dr. Bob was born and raised in Florham Park, New Jersey.
He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and had a successful landscaping business upon graduating.