We commonly refer to this kind of approach as “functional”, “holistic” or “integrative medicine”. If you’re having trouble getting pregnant naturally, you’ve been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, or you want to optomise your body before trying to conceive, to increase success of a sustained and healthy pregnancy then I strongly recommend trying a functional approach to fertility.

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This approach seeks to “ view the body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs divided up by medical specialties. It treats the whole system, not just the symptoms.” Mark Hyman, MD.”

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As a Functional Medicine practitioner, I work to evaluate all of the systems in a person’s body, to determine where optimisation can occur in order to support the body in feeling safe, to allow for natural conception. At times, we have defined structural abnormalities in our anatomy that effects our fertility but once this is excluded as a cause, we start to look deeply into an individual’s or couples health. We do this via functional laboratory testing. Functional testing, differs from traditional medical testing. It has a much narrower range of what is ‘normal’, we seek results that indicate optimal health rather than a level that is required to exclude ill health.