Acubalance Longevity Diet: Basic Principles and Recipes In our practice at Acubalance Wellness Centre in Vancouver, BC, we help patients manage and reverse a number of different health conditions. From infertility to menopausal symptoms, to autoimmune diseases and chronic pain, the ‘chief complaint’ may vary from person to person, but our approach is the same:…
Eat Healthy Fats when Eating for Fertility! Watch our video to learn how to avoid these fats & oils when eating for fertility. Cholesterol in healthy fats is what the building blocks our reproductive hormones are made from, so ensuring you’re getting enough will ensure your body is getting all the resources it needs for…
You can download a copy of the Acubalance Fertility Diet Book with recipes from the Acubalance website’s home page Inflammaging Aging is a natural part of life. However, many of us are experiencing accelerated aging as a result of systemic chronic inflammation also referred to as “inflammaging”. Inflammaging (chronic inflammation) leads to accelerated aging and…
You can download a copy of the Acubalance Fertility Diet Book with recipes from the Acubalance website’s home page. Can I drink coffee when trying to conceive? The answer may not be black or white, but if you drink your coffee black, chances are it may be OK. There are studies suggesting too much coffee (two…
You can download a copy of the Acubalance Fertility Diet Book with recipes for eating for fertility from the Acubalance website’s home page We work with patients every day in our practice who are struggling to conceive. It’s a heartbreaking journey – and something that most couples never anticipate will happen to them. You are…
Your microbiome can impact your health and fertility! More Resources below on the microbiome and how what you eat can impact implantation Learn about how what you eat can impact implantation, health and fertility with Acubalance in Vancouver.
About 20 million Americans are diagnosed with a thyroid disease or disorder, affecting 1 in 8 women at some point in their lifetimes. So it’s easy to say we see a lot of patients here at Acubalance with imbalanced thyroid function. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis is the most common cause of acquired hypothyroidism. Currently, no effective…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released guidelines in November 2022 recommending that doctors should not prescribe opioids as the first line of treatment for pain, and instead consider non-opioid treatments such as acupuncture and low level laser therapy (LLLT). Here’s some back pain: do’s and don’ts. Actually, taking NSAIDS (over-the-counter…
It fills me up when I receive emails sharing the good news about your successful IVF cycles. I stared offering IVF acupuncture onsite at the IVF clinics in Vancouver all the way back in 2002. And I still get excited (and nervous) 20 plus years later when I go onsite to Olive Fertility Centre to…
A study published in December 2022 demonstrated the benefits of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS). In this study, they compared Co Q10 alone or in combination with TEAS plus a control group (no treatment). The study concluded CoQ10 alone or in combination with transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) are effective methods for IVF/ICSI-ET adjuvant therapy,…
