Dr. Tabatha Barber argues that "unexplained infertility" usually means doctors haven't looked hard enough. She had viable embryos but IVF failed, and later discovered root causes conventional medicine missed. Functional medicine can uncover hidden factors that standard reproductive endocrinology overlooks.
I don't believe in unexplained infertility because you mentioned before, a lot of women are referred to IVF. And I think by the time they get to IVF, conventional medicine, you know, reproductive endocrinology doesn't even care what the root cause is. They think they're just gonna bypass that root cause, right? They just don't care. They just, they want the numbers, they wanna transfer the embryos. Well, I had the numbers, I had the embryos and they weren't taking. So I'm a classic example of why there's more to the story and why functional medicine is so important. I mean, I used functional medicine and conventional medicine, which we describe as integrative medicine, right? The best of all worlds combined. I needed all those tools. And so if someone's listening and they haven't been able to conceive, there is probably something uncovered that just needs to be discovered, right? I don't, I don't believe in unexplained infertility. I believe it's just undiscovered. That makes sense. And functional medicine, hence this book, right, can help you discover that.
Love at the end of the book, you have like a checklist of like, here are all the different areas that you need to ask questions and evaluate. Have I thought of this as a root cause issue? So I would love for you to just break it down for our listeners, like what are the major areas that you see missed most often?
