IVF Isn’t Your Only Option—Here’s the Fertility Fix No One Talks About | Grace Emily Stark
How RRM Heals Women's Bodies, and Why Your Doctor Doesn't Know
Is IVF the only answer to infertility and women’s health— or is there an option that actually heals?
Grace Emily Stark takes us beyond the high-tech promises of IVF to explore Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM), a diagnostic and healing approach that seeks the root causes of infertility rather than bypassing them. We unpack how RRM offers hope to women feeling broken and exhausted by the failure of contraceptives to heal them, and by mainstream fertility treatments, and why embracing this life-affirming model challenges prevailing assumptions about women’s health.
Topics We Cover
Why IVF and contraception don’t heal women, but merely bypass the problems
How RRM “looks for the root causes instead of masking symptoms”
How restorative medicine empowers women to understand and heal their bodies
Mentioned in the Episode
International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine
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Discussion Questions
Have you or someone you know been harmed by the approach of contraceptives and IVF?
What might be some social and emotional benefits of focusing on healing infertility?
How can this conversation reshape how we talk about fertility and reproductive health?
How do you see this conversation influencing broader cultural attitudes toward infertility and parenthood?
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