Infertility

Category: Illness or disabilities

Type

Involuntary

Introduction and description

As infertility can be such a distressing subject for many people, the photos I have chosen are gentle soothing photos rather than medical.  All the more graphic medical pictures are to be found within the section on Reproductive system disease, which provides a much more generic overview of all the problems of this area.

There is no sound water tight definition of infertility. 

If the ovaries are removed or the testicles, then it is a clear cut case, but in all other cases it is not actually correct to declare a person as infertile.  They may have contracted a pathogen which they subsequently defeat.  They may be under great stress and this is conquered.  It may take months, it may take years, but there is always hope.  Infertility treatments have their own rather unpleasant side-effects.  In by-passing nature’s own regulatory controls on whether sperm and egg are viable, a whole host of problems can ensue; and few couples in their desperate desire to have a baby, are adequately counselled as to how great these risks are:

In other words, if there is a pathogenic or genetic cause, you are likely to be passing this on to your baby.

The cure for infertility is thus to find the cause and treat the cause.  Throughout this site I have tried to emphasise the need to ignore symptoms and follow the cause effect chain back to causes.  You can heal causes, you can only mask symptoms.  Infertility is one problem where it is imperative this is done, because a baby's entire life and quality of life is at stake.

If there is no treatment, if you have acquired a virus, a bacteria, a toxin that cannot be defeated, then there is even more reason not to try to have a baby, because you will be giving them an illness that is incurable - like cystic fibrosis.    

Causes

The process of ovulation is controlled by the hypothalamus of the brain and through the release of hormones secreted in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.  Thus any pathogen which causes brain damage can cause infertility.

Nutritional deprivation

Both vitamin deficiency and mineral deficiency can result in infertility.  More specifically Mineral imbalance and especially zinc deficiency and Selenium deficiency.  Zinc is needed to form the lining of the womb.  If you are seriously deficient then there will be no formation of the lining of the womb and periods will stop.  Zinc is required by men to produce testosterone. Thus, zinc deficiency can lead to less testosterone production in men and hence show up with the symptoms associated with low testosterone.

But there is also evidence that vitamin supplements, mineral supplements and dietary supplements have also caused infertility.  Perhaps one of the more interesting of these is Folic acid - a vitamin which is added to bread, and any manner of other foodstuffs and not only given as supplements.  The following comes from the eHealthme web-site.

 It may be worth reading the section on Eating bread, to get some background on this overall problem.

 Pharmaceuticals

A gradually growing list of pharmaceuticals is implicated in causing infertility. 

The eHealthme web site collects the Adverse Drug Reports submitted by doctors to the FDA and SEDA in the USA.  The eHealthme web site separates infertility in general from female infertility. 

This LINK takes you to the section on infertility in general. If the link doesn't work then use the 'conditions' box a the top of the page.  Scroll down and you will find a section 'Drugs that could cause'.  If you press this link you will be presented with a list of all the drugs implicated in causing infertility.  As of December 2016, there were about 300 drugs in the list.

This LINK takes you to the section on female infertility.  If the link doesn't work then use the 'conditions' box a the top of the page.  Scroll down and you will find a section 'Drugs that could cause'.  If you press this link you will be presented with a list of all the drugs implicated in causing female infertility.  As of December 2016, there were about 200 drugs in the list.

The drugs on the list are very diverse and include, for example, acne treatments, asthma and COPD inhalers, insomnia treatments, antibiotics, beta blockers, immunosuppressants, rheumatoid arthritis drugs, pain killers and NSAIDs, benzodiazepines, muscle relaxants, diuretics, ACE inhibitors, synthetic glucocorticoids, ADHD drugs, epilepsy drugs, neuralgia treatments, opioid analgesics and statins

In addition to anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, and anti-anxiety drugs, there appears to be evidence that certain injectable long acting hormonal contraceptive birth control drugs and devices can cause infertility.  Both those injected via a syringe and those which use  a single-rod subdermal contraceptive implant are included, as well as contraceptive patches.  The intrauterine device (IUD) with progestogen is also implicated [In the United Kingdom, the IUD with progestogen is referred to as an intrauterine system (IUS)].

There are also drugs that have multiple uses.  MPA, for example, has caused infertility and is used as a treatment for endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, and amenorrhea; as a contraceptive; as an appetite stimulant; and to 'reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures'.

In addition to those where the cause and effect can be easily traced, there are also drugs where the cause effect chain is longer.  Anti-histamines – for example  “cimetidine is a well-recognized zinc chelator. PMID:10394044” and as we saw above zinc is needed for fertility.  There is a proven link between Endometriosis and infertility, this LINK  shows the pharmaceuticals causing endometriosis.[if the link is broken, please use the process described above].

One pharmaceutical deserves a mention. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen that was first synthesized in 1938. It is also classified as an endocrine disruptor. We could classifiy DES as both a toxin and a drug, as human exposure to DES occurred through supplemented cattle feed and medical treatment for certain conditions, including breast and prostate cancers. From about 1940 to 1971, DES was given to pregnant women in the mistaken belief it would reduce the risk of pregnancy complications and losses.  In 1971, DES was shown to cause vaginal tumors in girls and women who had been exposed to this drug in utero. The United States Food and Drug Administration subsequently withdrew DES from use in pregnant women. Follow-up studies have indicated that DES also has the potential to cause a variety of significant adverse medical complications during the lifetimes of those exposed - one of which is infertility.  The United States National Cancer Institute recommends women born to mothers who took DES undergo special medical exams on a regular basis to screen for complications as a result of the drug.

 Toxins

Toxins, including heavy metals,  appear to play a big part in the development of reproductive system diseases in general.  Nanoparticles are known to cause genetic defects. Both lead and mercury exposure are implicated in infertility.  In poor dental work dental amalgam fillings have also been implicated. 

Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that at certain doses, can interfere with the endocrine (or hormone system) in mammals. Hormones work at very small doses (part per billion ranges) thus it takes very little to disrupt the body's endocrine systems. Endocrine disruption can occur via higher than normal doses of the body's own hormones [via the food chain for example] or via chemicals that can compete with natural hormones for receptors or destroy the receptors.

There are other toxins also implicated.   For example, there is an established association between endometriosis and infertility  .....

 Parasites

Parasites may cause infertility directly through organ damage or indirectly via nutritional deprivation.  The parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, for example, may cause malabsorption in the intestine and contribute to malnutrition.  Tapeworms, liver flukes and roundworms in general often produce severe nutritional deficiency, especially vitamin D and vitamin B12.  It needs to be remembered that Echinococcosis can be acquired from foxes and unwormed dogs.

Pinworms in women may move onto the vulva and into the vagina, from there moving to external orifice of the uterus, and onwards to the uterine cavity, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and peritoneal cavity.

The presence of parasites in the reproductive organs or damaging the organs producing hormones, is often known from cysts.  Balantidium coli, for example, causes illness by cysts forming in tissues and compromising their activity.  Chlamydia pneumoniae is a ubiquitous parasite and is capable of causing numerous illnesses. It has the ability to survive inside target cells, evading the host's immune system, as such if it migrates into the reproductive system it is particularly dangerous and can affect both mother and baby.

Schistosoma cause bilharzia/Schistosomiasis - a chronic illness that can damage internal organs and can cause blindness. In those who have been infected a long time, liver damage, kidney failure, infertility, or bladder cancer may occur.

The parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii infects about one-third of the population of developed countries.  It is carried by cats - see being with cats.  It can reach both the brain and muscular tissues of infected humans, and as a consequence renders a person infertile through hormonal imbalances.

Stress and high emotion

I do not think enough attention is paid to the effect of stress upon fertility.  In my own sphere of friends I have noticed that where there is a fervent desire to have a baby, perhaps in part fuelled by the competition between young women, babies do not appear.  Occasionally the lack of appearance of a baby will result in an adoption, only for a baby to appear a year or so later.  In other words once the competitive pressure is removed, the infertility goes.  

Furthermore, once someone who thought themselves infertile has a baby, a second baby can often appear very quickly after the first. 

There is something of a vicious cycle in operation here too.  Apparent infertility can affect marriages, making love, and produce "emotional distress and marital dissatisfaction".  What is worse, is that stress can lead to illness and this illness can itself cause infertility, nature has a tendency to reduce the infertility of people who are ill.

In effect, the best way to have a baby is to not desperately, desperately want a baby.  If you really love someone, the best way is to make love to that person frequently, perhaps enjoying a little sex magick or even sexual stimulation, to heighten the enjoyment, and simply not use any form of protection.  Leave it to chance.  Babies conceived from love are very special babies.  Babies conceived from 'want' -  a desire to have a baby just because everyone else is having one - are still special because all babies are special - but want may go, whereas love never does.

 Bacterial infection

The role of bacteria in causing infertility has been known for some time.  As the sperm has to pass along the vagina any disruption in the flora may make it a more hostile environment, for example

The term aerobic vaginitis is used to describe a disruption in the Lactobacillus species as a predominant species in the vaginal flora accompanied by signs of inflammation by immune-system involvement and a predominantly aerobic flora.

 

Fungal infection

In the same way that bacteria can create a hostile environment for sperm, so can fungi and viruses, for example, here we see fungal infection, bacterial infection and viruses all played their part:

Viral infection

 Viral infection in women can affect the egg, but viral infection in men can render them totally infertile, or produce damaged sperm

Vaccines

Where a vaccine uses a live virus [not all do], we are in effect giving a person the virus in the hope their immune system builds up immunity.  But, many viruses are not destroyed by the immune system, merely subdued.  When the immune system is compromised, the virus will travel round the body to cause subsequent bouts of illness.    Thus any vaccine which uses a live virus has the potential to make us infertile, depending, of course, on the virus [see above].

Physical damage and surgery

 There is an obvious and clear link between any form of damage to the sexual organs and infertility, but what is often forgotten is that damage occurs from aging in women.  Women are born with a supply of eggs to last them their entire life, and as they get older the viability of those eggs decreases, for example

'unexplained' = not being one of the known causes above.

Radiation

All radiation whether 'cosmic' or electromagnetic impacts our bodies and depending on its frequency it resonates different parts of us.  The reason that nuclear radiation is so dangerous is that it impacts cells, but what we appear to have overlooked is that all radiation impacts some part of us.

Every aggregate in our bodies - organs, cells, the body itself, has natural ‘resonance’.  Resonance is a substance’s natural tendency to oscillate – vibrate – at maximum amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the thing’s resonant frequency.

And long term exposure at the resonating frequency, or short term high intensity exposure to the resonating frequency of the ovaries or testicles will cause cell death in eggs and sperm. 

Treatment

Find the cause.

How it works

There are few cases of infertility causing spiritual experience, although the extreme distress it causes has produced occasional examples.  The majority of hallucinations, visions etc have come from the pharmaceuticals used to treat them. 

Where healing has occurred it is principally because the cause has been addressed.  The observations provide more detail.

 

References and further reading

All the photos on this page are by Oleg Oprisco, whose biography can be found by following the link, along with other examples of his work.

Another cause of infertility is Estrogen imbalance.  This is itself caused by external facors, as such it may be helpful to read this section.  For more general information on Estrogen itself and its role in the reproductive system see Estrogen.

 

Related observations

Healing observations

• Adding the phytoestrogen Cimicifugae Racemosae to clomiphene induction cycles with timed intercourse in polycystic ovary syndrome improves cycle outcomes and pregnancy rates - a randomized trial 017883
• Alba Scots Pine Ale 016962
• Amenorrhoea, Infertility and the effect of soybeans on the anovulatory cycle 017935
• Arginine, the immune system, babies and sperm 005428
• Attenuation of Sulfite-Induced Testicular Injury in Rats by Zingiber officinale Roscoe 029312
• Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - Honey, infertility and rickety babies 020917
• Celery as an anti-dote to infertility caused by epilepsy drugs 012444
• Celery as an anti-dote to the infertility caused by toxin DEHP 012445
• Dr David Harvie-Austin - Case study with Angela Kilmartin 012313
• Dr Duke's list of activity for Vitamin B6 017763
• Dr Duke's list of activity for Vitamin C 017762
• Dr Duke's list of biological activities for Vitamin C 017880
• Dr Duke's list of chemicals and activity for the Shallot 017969
• Dr Duke's list of Reproductive system activity for Colocynth 018076
• Dr Duke's list of Reproductive system activity for the Dock 018083
• Dr Duke's list of Reproductive system activity for the Dog Rose 018091
• Dr Stephen Black - Infertility, the sex drive and hypnotherapy 011911
• Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride - Heart attack through 'evil fats'? 027893
• Effects of Hydro-alcoholic Extract from Arctium lappa L. (Burdock) Root on Gonadotropins, Testosterone, and Sperm Count and Viability in Male Mice with Nicotinamide/ Streptozotocin-Induced Type 2 Diabetes 017010
• Healing by AVOIDING all foods sprayed with glyphosate [Roundup] 026330
• In vivo effects of Aspalathus linearis (rooibos) on male rat reproductive functions 027376
• Laughter therapy and infertility 006279
• Pregnancy despite imminent ovarian failure and extremely high endogenous gonadotropins and therapeutic strategies: case report and review 017926
• Premature ovarian failure in the early age 20s: 3 case reports 017925
• Professor Alexander Erskine - A Hypnotist’s Case Book – Birth control using hypnosis 029281
• Professor Dean Ornish - Your genes are not your fate 013068
• Riboflavin Deficiency as a cause of disease 027370
• Royal jelly and infertility 005342
• Selenium in reproductive health 016787
• Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - And Infertility 013812
• Taking the waters 006677
• The effect of selenium on carbendazim induced oral sub chronic toxicity 013086
• The Healing Power of Sleep 026790
• The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 02 017839
• The role of selenium in human conception and pregnancy 016786
• Urinary phytoestrogen levels related to idiopathic male infertility in Chinese men 017882
• Vitamin A and cancer 007246
• Zinc deficiency 006866

Hallucination

• Anti-psychotics caused delusions of pregnancy 006742
• Clomiphene and Clomid 017647
• Clomiphene citrate as a possible cause of a psychotic reaction during infertility treatment 017652
• Exacerbation of a schizoaffective psychosis after in vitro fertilization with leuproreline acetate 017650
• Food dyes and genotoxicity - Food manufacturing companies 014505
• Letrozole and Femara 017655
• Lincoln Wind turbine moratorium 004997
• Lupron, Eligard and Leuprolide 017651
• Mid-stimulation psychosis in the course of in vitro fertilization procedure with the use of clomiphene citrate and bromocriptine - case study 017649
• Psychotic episode secondary to gonadotrophins 017648
• Psychotic illness during treatment with clomifen 017653
• Tamoxifen 015719

Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss

• Professor Dean Ornish - Your genes are not your fate 013068
• Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - And Infertility 013812
• Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - Men sow seed habitually where they do not wish it to grow 013820
• TED - Tyrone Hayes & Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby 016740
• The Kama sutra – 07 On obtaining sexual vigour and health 018695
• The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 02 017839

In time

Synaesthesia, Pure or enhanced perception, Inter composer communication, Vision, Dream, Perception recall, Exploring group perception

• Masters and Houston - 2 Psychedelics and sex 015569
• Pamela’s Story – A Brief Visit from a Little Soul. It was like being visited by an angel 022704

Environmental Influence

• Tibetan Buddhism - Monks and Tummo 010753

Other observations

• Allergic reaction to Potassium dichromate - Pharmaceutical companies 014507
• Contamination of French drinking water 008341
• Food dyes and genotoxicity - Food manufacturing companies 014505
• Incomplete virilization in infant boys exposed to phthalates 006290
• Indoor risks of pesticide uses are significantly linked to hazards of the family members 027722
• Mozuku - Toxicological evaluation of fucoidan from Cladosiphon okamuranus 016983
• Potatoes and pesticides 006267
• The effect of occupational exposure to mercury vapour on the fertility of female dental assistants 027603
• Toxic wheat in the USA and UK 013096