Posted on 01/26/2020 8:01:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
There is perhaps nothing quite like the struggle of unexplained infertility. It is baffling, it is exhausting, it is all-encompassing, and above all it is so, so hard. It is also confusing. For couples struggling with unexplained infertility, anything and everything can seem like the culprit behind the thwarted desire to have a baby. You wonder, maybe you’re not exercising or sleeping enough—then again, maybe you’re exercising and sleeping too much? Maybe it’s your diet—maybe you’re eating too much of something, or not enough of another? And while you run through the laundry list of possibilities, and long desperately for a reason for your struggle, part of you is also terrified that you may find out that it’s a problem about which nothing can be done.
I know, because I have been there.
For over a year, my husband and I struggled to get pregnant, and suffered the devastating miscarriage of our first child. And even though we eventually found a fertility protocol (with the help of a few Natural Procreative Technology doctors) that helped us get—and stay—pregnant, we’ve never been 100 percent sure exactly what the source of our problem was. But, undoubtedly, we are some of the lucky ones. There are many couples who have faced similar journeys, who are still struggling for an answer, without a baby to hold yet for all of their hard work and emotional turmoil.
Hope, of course, is so important in the struggle against infertility. And sometimes new research can provide hopeful clues that may lead to the answers for which couples have long been searching. According to some fascinating, recent research, for at least some of the couples struggling with undiagnosed infertility, undiagnosed celiac disease could be playing a major part in their continued struggles to conceive or carry a pregnancy.
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I have read studies that a gluten free diet increases testosterone levels.
I think its something worth investigating because I know so many people who are allergic or unable to eat gluten.
It seems to me that humans in many parts of the world have thrived and reproduced for centuries, despite eating various gluten-containing cereals as a staple of the diet.
(Of course, during the last century or two, we’ve progressively refined wheat, in particular, getting rid of the essential nutrition in it, and ‘played around with it’ genetically.)
I’d look around for other causes, before blaming gluten itself.
American mass produced and processed gluten* ? Or real fresh baked village bread?
BIG difference.
My kids grew up on Wonder Bread,yuk,but no fertility problems.
I wish that was true because then countries like India and China would not have way over Billion people and over crowding. Those people eat lots of gluten.
Anecdotally I can say yes, that is absolutely accurate
Oh good God.
Not another bunch of nonsense.
Never mind the sham of gluten-free as some kind of “healthy/diet”.
It’s for people with Celiac Disease, not a health kick.
And if it was such a fertility crisis, why was this not a problem (LOL) until recently?
Something is definitely going on because the past few years I’ve noticed eating bread just wrecks me, and I’m like the Chinese, I can eat anything without so much as blinking, but bread, wheat, just screws up my energy and digestion like you can’t believe and it never use to to that. So either I developed this bizarre sensitivity to wheat or they put something in it.
How do you know what is gluten free though?
I don’t have gluten issues, but have some relatives who do. I guess labels on food helps.
Bingo! Natural Womanhood? Is there an “un-natural womanhood?” If there is, these new age clowns created it. New age maladies are only a problem when someone sees fit to make it so and probably have a dollar to make.
Just think if you hadn’t eaten all that gluten — you’d probably have 22 or 24 kids!
Oh goody. Pass the tin foil
Yep its more snowflake whining
Not for me. Nothing reduced fertility except intensive breastfeeding, extreme underweight, or being 51.
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