Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

How Trauma Impacts Infertility @AnnShippyMD

13 May 2026 · 1 min

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Trauma can alter sperm through epigenetics, passing inherited responses to offspring. Animal studies show traumatic experiences linked to specific smells create escape responses in future generations. Before trying to conceive, neurofeedback and psychological reset techniques help address trauma.

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Where do you find like trauma and infertility?
Oh, that's such a great question. This is so fascinating. Oh my gosh. So it's, I think it's harder to study women on this, but I'm sure it's very similar. But with the men, they can study epigenetic changes in the sperm that get passed on to the child or even in the, in animal studies. And so they can even like, they've linked a trauma to a smell. And then future generations reacting, you know, with a trauma, like escape response when they have that smell. So I really do believe that it's helpful to, to do some neurofeedback, to do some psychological reset, at least to do some intention setting, make sure that you're everything solid ground before you bring the baby in.