FOUNDER FERTILITY NOTES
Reflections on fertility, health, and the human journey toward creating life.
Drawing from more than two decades of caring for people trying to build families, Dr. Spence Pentland shares observations, clinical insights, and ideas that reach beyond tests, treatments, and protocols.
These notes explore not only what we can do to support fertility, but who we may become along the way – offering perspective, direction, and a more human way to understand the fertility journey.
Preparing for Frozen Embryo Transfer After Loss
Preparing for embryo transfer after loss is not the same as preparing for your first attempt. Your body may be ready before your heart has fully caught up.
What People Remember About Fertility Care
People remember the pregnancy, but they also remember how they were treated along the way. Fertility care should take the medicine seriously without losing sight of the person receiving it.
Why Do I Want a Child So Much?
You may not be waiting only for a positive pregnancy test. You may be waiting for access to an identity, a relationship, and a future that already feels real inside you.
When Everything Looks Normal, What Does Your Body Need?
When fertility investigations look reassuring but pregnancy is not happening, the answer may not be another hidden diagnosis. Sometimes the opportunity is to support what is already working.
Pregnancy Begins Long Before Conception
Conception may be the first date medicine can record, but it is not where the biological story begins. The health cultivated before pregnancy may become one of the earliest gifts we offer the next generation.
You Are Not Starting Over Every Month
A period arrives, hope drops, and it can feel as though you are back at the beginning. This fertility roadmap reveals a different story: beneath the monthly outcome, your body may already be moving through Shift, Transformation, and Manifestation.
Boosting Testosterone & Sexual Function
Testosterone is a male sex hormone responsible for optimal sperm production and plays a central role in overall health and vitality in men.
Low testosterone is associated with decreased fertility, low libido, erectile dysfunction, depression, low energy, inflammation, weight gain, and poor general health. Low levels of testosterone also increase chances of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases,
Acupuncture Improves IVF Success Rates & Patient Experience
Overview of acupuncture mechanisms influencing fertility, and review of most current quality research on acupuncture & IVF and other fertility treatments, as well as patient experience
Glutathione Can Improve Fertility
In this article, I am going to go through some very important information for those of you faced with fertility challenges. What will be presented may outline a potential causative factor contributing to your infertility, and clearly explain what can be done to rectify these circumstances. This article includes the following topics;
Benefits of Immune Boosting Vitamin C IV’s
What can we do to stay healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic? First and foremost, we must eat well to fuel and nourish our bodies and minds with the necessary nutrients to energize and feel good throughout the day. Of equal importance is movement, of any kind. It’s vital for circulation, digestion, immune function, and mood to do some form of exercise every day.
How do we get sick? Chinese Medicine theory
Health is more than just the absence of disease. Health is a state of balance within your body, with an adequate reserve of energy and resources so that you can thrive.
Balance is the key to health in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is important to have a balance between work and exercise, a balanced diet,
What you need to know about chemical exposure & fertility
The following videos and information were compiled by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). The ASRM is a non-profit organization that sets standards, ethics, and guidelines for the field of reproductive medicine and fertility doctors in the United States.
Compelling scientific evidence in recent decades has established strong links between chemical exposures and endocrine diseases,
