Rachel O’Donnell-Barry, of the Harmony Clinic in Cork, reckons that for women having problems conceiving, 60% of issues are fixable.
And she says you don’t necessarily need to go to an IVF clinic.
Rachel, who trained with leading UK gynaecology expert, Dr Trevor Wing, is an acupuncturist, a nutritional therapist, and a Chinese herbalist.
She applies those areas to fertility treatment.
Rachel says acupuncture can increase blood flow to the womb “so it will give you better-quality eggs. It can help with endometriosis so the chances of getting pregnant with that condition will be improved”.
She added: “Acupuncture relaxes the body which reduces cortisol, the stress hormone. When a woman is under stress a lot of the time, too much cortisol is being released. It does a thing called the ‘cortisol steal’, stealing…