I wanted to write down here all the information I have on eliminating infertility, because unfortunately many of my friends have this problem. I used to have it too, so I know how frustrating it is when you feel you’re healthy, young and strong, and it turns out you’re “shooting blanks”, or basically nobody knows what’s going on, but the effect is that a year after you start trying you still don’t have children. I think this might save someone’s life, or rather help bring a new one into existence.
So I’ll describe my efforts here, even though I’ve never shared this with anyone before.
For half my life I ate anything and everything and didn’t really care. But when I wanted to have children and my wife and I started trying, after the first month it was more like surprise and “hooray, we can have fun without protection”. As is well known, long‑term use of contraceptive pills by a woman can contribute to such a situation, but my wife had stopped all pills a long time ago, because they only messed with her psyche and killed her libido. On top of that, a few years before we started trying seriously, the first pregnancy was unsuccessful (ectopic) and had to be terminated so that my wife wouldn’t die. A bit of extra emotional baggage, just so it wouldn’t be too easy.
After half a year of trying, fear starts to creep in that nothing will come of it.
After 7 months I completely changed my diet – I cut out meat, cheese and all animal products. I went on a vegan diet. I lost 5 kg in a month. After 8 months my wife got pregnant. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I combined it with other changes in my lifestyle.
Natural methods of fighting infertility
There are other things, which, in addition to a harmful meat‑based diet (diet is a topic for another thread), definitely prevent pregnancy and must be eliminated if you’re trying to have children.
Our body is not stupid. It will not undertake the creation of a new human being if it knows it is poisoned and this could damage that delicate process.
Here’s the list:
1. Eliminate meat
and animal‑derived products. The way they are produced is so pathological that nothing good comes out of it.
2. Eliminate smoking.
E‑cigarettes and nicotine patches too. This is pretty obvious, but some people think e‑cigs are less harmful. They castrate just as effectively.
3. Eliminate all environmental toxins.
And here, first of all, comes:
a) the need to filter drinking water using reverse osmosis
b) removing any food in plastic packaging
c) eliminating any food processed in a microwave
d) replacing cups and dishes with 100% white porcelain.
Yes, the dyes on the dishes you eat from or – even worse – drink boiling water from are mostly heavy metals. A terrible trap. I recommend white porcelain from the Polish company Lubiana.
e) Eliminate all shampoos, cosmetics and other toxic substances that are very easily absorbed through the skin and then poison your body from the inside. Have you ever read the ingredients of your shampoo or shower gel? THEN READ THEM. Especially since many fragrance substances are toxic and cause infertility, which I’ll talk about later in this post.
Yes, you can wash with clean water and the effectiveness will be almost identical. Use soap only for your hands after using the toilet. Most shampoos, even “bio” ones, have several dozen ingredients, including petroleum‑derived crap that destroys the skin and sweat gland cells. At first your skin may be a bit more oily, but after a few days it will get used to it. If you have long hair and it gets greasy – then use a shampoo that has at most a few ingredients and check each of them online to see if it’s toxic to your health.
This is very important, because these cosmetics and disinfecting chemicals are ANTI‑BIO, i.e. biocidal, and often cause hormone disruption, which prevents women from getting pregnant or maintaining a pregnancy.
f) Eliminate all perfumes, deodorants, scented candles and toilet air fresheners.
For millions of years nobody used this stuff. Your body is being fooled by them. If your body smells, it means it’s getting rid of toxins. Change your diet to one that’s right for your body – you’ll stop sweating and stinking so terribly. See point one.
All the fragrance products we so happily use to be more attractive to the opposite sex have one serious downside – they affect the hormones produced by humans. Disrupted hormones mean no possibility of getting pregnant or shooting blanks. This point is critical. I think there was a lot of information on this in the book “Metabolical” by Dr Lustig, but I read it a long time ago, so don’t quote me. Look up “fragrance fertility” online and you’ll see for yourself; here’s the first link from the top in my search results Fragrance is Impacting your Fertility
g) Stabilize your circadian rhythm
Which means go to bed nicely before 11 p.m. I know you can pull all‑nighters on Netflix or Steam, but sometimes you just can’t cheat life.
h) Alcohol
Can you drink? Alcoholics usually have more children than average, so while a woman should unquestionably stop, because you never know when she’ll manage to get pregnant, for a man – I dare say not necessarily. I didn’t give up occasional drinking while trying to conceive. All my kids are healthier than I was when I was little. But this comes down to diet, because:
The mother’s diet during pregnancy has a critical impact on the child’s entire life and should be as plant‑based as possible. Not completely. Here the woman’s intuition during pregnancy about whether she feels like eating a burger or not should play first fiddle, but all my children were born healthy and naturally, without a C‑section, two at home, not in a hospital – Apgar 10/10, no stitches in the perineum. My wife consciously aimed for a diet as close to vegan as possible. With occasional exceptions for cravings. I can also write something about how to prepare for this so that it works, if people are interested, because you need the right exercises and preferably devices for that, but I won’t get ahead of myself. What’s more important for you if you’re reading this is, at this stage, getting pregnant.
i) Invest in clean air.
Ideally, move somewhere close to a forest for a while, where there is no smog. And if you can’t afford that – buy an air purifier. You’ll be surprised how much crap you pull out of the filter after just a week or two of use.
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Toxins under control. What next? That’s actually simple: physical exercise. Enough to work up a good sweat at least every other day. When you sweat – you cleanse your body. You can also use a sauna (see another post on the forum with Brian Johnson, who tested this), but strictly for reproductive purposes you then have to keep cold compresses on the male genitals, so it’s not much fun.
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You can introduce intermittent fasting, or just a water fast, to regenerate your body. On my vegan diet I ate once a day when I was trying to conceive and it worked out well for me.
And what if that doesn’t help? Then you need support.
Support and a holistic approach to the body
Here what I would do after a water fast or during it is HBOT – hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a medical hyperbaric chamber at 2.5 atmospheres. For the couple, a minimum of 20 sessions each.
Naprotechnology
As the most effective support I recommend contacting a doctor who deals with Naprotechnology. I personally know people who also couldn’t “get pregnant” for 2 years and had a referral for in vitro, a certificate of infertility and a referral to an adoption clinic, and then, on recommendation, they got in touch with a specialist (also from friends who had been trying for 5 years and nothing worked until they followed his guidelines!). This specialist prescribed them herbs in the form of supplements that literally cost 7 zlotys, and after 3 months the woman got pregnant, and later a second and third time.
He didn’t prescribe these herbs blindly, but required tests throughout the month, day by day, to check the woman’s hormonal balance and on exactly which day which supplement should be used. A one‑off test once a month, as he put it, is pointless. Everything changes every day of the cycle and you need a chart for the whole month to precisely introduce the right medicine that will regulate that day’s hormonal dip so that in the fertility window everything is really perfect.
For some reason Naprotechnology is associated with ultra‑Catholic circles, but not only is this unjustified, it’s also something that can help many people. The doctor I mentioned is Dr Gadkowski. He sees patients near Poznań and sometimes in Poznań.
In any case, it’s worth taking all the steps – first the natural ones, because maybe you’ll succeed like I did. And secondly – contacting proven specialists.
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