Acubalance Wellness Centre is deeply honoured to have been voted Vancouver’s best Acupuncture and Naturopathic Clinic in the Georgia Straight 2017 Best of Vancouver awards.
“This is our 12th year receiving the award for acupuncture and it is always a thrill,” says Dr. Lorne Brown, founder and clinical director of Acubalance. As one of Canada’s leading natural fertility clinics, Acubalance is internationally known for treating infertility and for pregnancy support.
Healthy blood flow promotes fertility
Acubalance Wellness Centre was founded by Dr. Lorne Brown, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, Fellow of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine and a former chartered accountant (CPA).
A passionate advocate of supporting the body’s innate ability to heal itself, Brown combines a love for the science of human physiology with a deep respect for what’s been learned through thousands of years of traditional medical practices in China.
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Infertility in Canada has nearly doubled in the last two decades with more than one in six couples struggle with infertility, according to a recent study co–authored by Dr. Albert Yuzpe, medical co-director at the Vancouver based Olive Fertility Centre.
Acubalance's clinical director, Dr. Lorne Brown, Vancouver's first Fertility Acupuncturists is featured in Business in Vancouver
Dr. Lorne Brown talks to Grid magazine journalist David Paterson about how a Western diet loaded with unhealthy fats and refined carbs can bring about hormonal chaos and wild changes in blood-sugar levels, causing women to age prematurely.
One in six couples in Canada have trouble conceiving, but there's hope
The couple decided on IVF after medical tests determined that his sperm had poor motility. During her first IVF cycle, she was converted to a different treatment when doctors found she was unresponsive to fertility drugs. Either way, it didn't work.
The following is a newspaper article featured in the Vancouver Province on May 16, 2011, about integrating acupuncture with Western medicine to improve both fertility & pregnancy outcomes and the couples experience going through IVF. "My goal was not to just get pregnant but to have a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby. Integrating both treatments takes the best of both worlds, and it also helped me go into the whole IVF process in the best shape possible."
Download the PDF of the article below.
The following story was featured in the Vancouver Georgia Straight paper in May, 2011. The story was featured as part of Infertility Awareness Week. Acubalance was interviewed for this story on how we integrate acupuncture into the IVF process as well as our goal of helping couples have healthy babies:
Like a lot of women, Karen Barré had always had irregular periods, but she never gave them much thought. At least, the Langley resident didn’t worry about them too much until she wanted to have a baby. After more than a year of trying to conceive, Barré went to her doctor and found out the explanation for her wonky menstrual cycles and her inability to get pregnant: polycystic ovary syndrome.
After two years of desperately trying to have a baby, Suzanne Reichenbach was told she would never produce enough eggs to conceive. At age 34, her hormone levels were virtually premenopausal.
Like millions of other modern women who have pushed back motherhood into their mid-30s and beyond, Reichenbach jumped at costly in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments, the so-called petri-dish solution. But with too few follicles - the clusters of ovarian cells that house a woman's eggs - science was stumped and Reichenbach was frustrated.
For couples having trouble conceiving, infertility treatments get a boost from acupuncture and other Chinese medicine techniques.
Dean and Aeri, a Vancouver couple in their mid-30s, tried to conceive naturally for two years. After getting medical check-ups and being told they had only a 2%-5% chance on their own, they opted for a mainstreammedical approach for revving up fertility. Basically, it would entail injecting Dean’s sperm into one of Aeri’s eggs. It’s highly invasive, involves powerful drugs, and costs about $10,000 a try. They made an appointment but had to wait several months.
After more than a year of trying to get pregnant, Vancouverite Karen Raceyfound herself having a Sex & the City moment. Like the TV character Charlotte, she was having trouble conceiving. But unlike Charlotte, Raceywas trying for her second child after an easy first pregnancy. Still, she was in her mid-30s and didn't want it to take too long. Then, just as Charlotte did and a growing number of women in North America are doing, Racey sought out an acupuncture clinic.