So , acupuncture can operate at the chemical level , impacting hormones . It can act at the mechanical level , impacting the different tissues through which the egg has to pass and so on and so forth . Likewise , on the male side , acupuncture has been shown to improve semen volume quality of sperm , sperm motility , et cetera .
So all these um quote unquote ancient maps of the human body as they relate to acupuncture are now being parsed at the level of mechanism , which I think is wonderful because it not only is showing us that so much of what has been purported and reported in the landscape of acupuncture actually has an underlying mechanistic basis . And with additional mechanistic understanding , of course , always arrive new and better practices . That's the idea to evolve these fields of acupuncture to evolve the fields of mechanistic understanding of our biology and health .
So for instance , they found that stimulation of a particular site on the lower limb can reduce inflammation dramatically throughout the body by way of neural pathways that originate in the lower limb and extend to areas such as the kidney and the pancreas . So all these um quote unquote ancient maps of the human body as they relate to acupuncture are now being parsed at the level of mechanism , which I think is wonderful because it not only is showing us that so much of what has been purported and reported in the landscape of acupuncture actually has an underlying mechanistic basis . And with additional mechanistic understanding , of course , always arrive new and better practices .
So when you hear that acupuncture can improve the likelihood of pregnancy . Um That's an accurate statement for which there are now increasing amounts of mechanistic data . If you want to learn more about how acupuncture can be used to contribute to improved fertilization and pregnancy , there are a number of different excellent reviews on this .
And with additional mechanistic understanding , of course , always arrive new and better practices . That's the idea to evolve these fields of acupuncture to evolve the fields of mechanistic understanding of our biology and health . And so the issue of whether or not acupuncture can assist in getting pregnant and in carrying a child to term and for that child to be healthy , uh are really starting to emerge uh in a major way .
