{"id":2205403,"date":"2024-03-25T03:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T07:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-we-addressed-the-root-of-infertility-rather-than-pushing-the-questionable-ivf-quick-fix\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T03:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T07:30:26","slug":"what-if-we-addressed-the-root-of-infertility-rather-than-pushing-the-questionable-ivf-quick-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-we-addressed-the-root-of-infertility-rather-than-pushing-the-questionable-ivf-quick-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"What if we focused on treating the underlying causes of infertility instead of promoting IVF as a quick solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-if-we-addressed-the-root-of-infertility-rather-than-pushing-the-questionable-ivf-quick-fix%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2205403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>All Our Eggs in One IVF Basket<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2064 can\u2019t say exactly\u200b why, except that, when\u2064 IVF was invented, all advancements in medicine regarding fertility and endocrinology practically stopped. All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-may-reckon-with-state-trans-procedure-bans-for-minors-sooner-than-later\/\" title=\"Supreme Court could address state bans on trans procedures for minors soon.\">medical\u2064 treatments<\/a> and research put all their eggs in the\u200d basket of \u2062IVF.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, because \u200bof the appeal of a quick fix, \u200dthinking it would have\u2062 better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-babies-are-a-thing-and-theyre-raising-major-ethical-questions\/\" title=\"'AI Babies' Exist, Prompting Ethical Concerns\">success\u200b rates<\/a> than it did, and it was financially lucrative. For such a daunting medical issue, it gives the illusion \u200bof \u200cthe path of least resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the diagnosis of infertility is scary because it isn\u2019t really\u2064 a diagnosis. It is a symptom of many other health conditions adding up so \u2064that a man and a woman together can\u2019t conceive. Rarely is \u2064it just one issue,\u200c like\u200c anovulation. It is unique for\u200b each couple and\u200d even individual.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2505167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15-30 percent of\u200b couples<\/a> are given\u2063 the diagnosis of \u201cunexplained infertility\u201d and use that as a literal medical \u201cdiagnosis\u201d to justify IVF. Doctors are essentially admitting \u2063they cannot \u200cfigure out\u200d the issue, so the \u2063couple should just pay \u200dan exorbitant amount of money to the doctor\u2064 to jump to IVF after only\u200d trying the basic, nearly primitive \u201ctreatments\u201d \u2062like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spanish-top-court-rules-surrogacy-is-illegal-and-is-an-exploitation-of-women\/\" title=\"Spanish Top Court Rules Surrogacy is Illegal and is An Exploitation of Women\">artificial insemination<\/a>, which boasts a 0-10 percent\u200d success rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Leaving \u200cCouples Broke and Hopeless<\/h2>\n<p>As a restorative reproductive medicine provider, I often\u200c see couples \u200bwho have already tried \u2062and failed intrauterine insemination (IUI) and who\u2063 don\u2019t want\u200c to do IVF or who have failed IVF. They come to me feeling \u2062physically \u200dbroken, and they walked out of the fertility clinic \u2062more emotionally broken than when they started their conception \u2064journey.<\/p>\n<p>They blame\u200d themselves\u200d for their infertility since the doctors \u201ccan\u2019t\u2062 find anything wrong,\u201d even with years of searching.<\/p>\n[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/18\/big-fertility-should-stop-pushing-ivf-on-women-as-the-first-and-only-option-for-making-a-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fertility Doctors Refused\u200c To Treat \u2062Me \u200cHolistically Because IVF Is\u2062 Their Cash Cow<\/a>]\n<p>The luckier couples I see are\u200d the ones\u200b who haven\u2019t already\u200b lost embryos \u200dor \u200ctens \u2064of thousands of dollars. The less fortunate ones are often so blinded by their desperation that they have let IVF\u2063 doctors take\u2063 advantage of\u2062 their plight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society widely endorses in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a compassionate solution for infertility. But what if our perception is flawed? Could IVF, instead of a savior, be a harmful choice for couples battling the emotional toll of infertility? Rethinking conventional views on fertility treatments may lead to alternative, more beneficial options<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":2205404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-21-at-1.26.01-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-21-at-1.26.01-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}