Fertility and Weight Loss: Chinese medicine regulating mense cycle can help

According to Chinese Medicine, over weight can affect man and woman's fertility. Many fertility doctors also hold this view and advice patients to lose weight if they are over weighted.

There are many means of losing weight or weight control such as medicine or holistic methods like exercise, diet or herb supplement. Acupuncture is also an option as the weight control needle pattern can be incorporated into fertility treatment.

The International Journal of Obesity just published a review of 31 studies on the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of obesity.  The systematic review was comprised of 3013 individual cases where acupuncture was used to reduce body weight.

The aim of this review was to critically assess evidence for reduction of body weight and to evaluate adverse events of acupuncture therapy based on the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluate the effect of various types of acupuncture therapies.

The results of this review showed that compared to control of lifestyle, acupuncture was associated with a significant reduction of average body weight (95% confidence interval, CI) of 1.72 kg (0.50–2.93 kg) and was associated with an improvement in obesity (relative risk=2.57; 95% CI, 1.98–3.34). Acupuncture significantly reduced a body weight of 1.56 kg (0.74–2.38 kg), on average, compared to placebo or sham treatments. Acupuncture also showed more improved outcomes for body weight (mean difference=1.90 kg; 1.66–2.13 kg), as well as for obesity (relative risk=1.13; 1.04–1.22), than conventional medication.