Parenthood is one of the most universally desired goals of adulthood in all species. However, among humans not all couples who desire a child will achieve one without any challenges. Sexual and reproductive health is a very personal issue which is everyone’s concern. This issue begins to affect people’s lives, first at adolescence when they start getting aware of the reproductive cycle and start to observe the changes in their body. This gross change can have acute effects on the young people's conduct and perspective towards life.

The biological battle

The biological interaction between stress and infertility is the result of the action of stress hormones at the brain level, especially on the hypothalamus-pituitary and on the female reproductive organs. Stress hormones such as catecholamines (adrenalin, noradrenaline and dopamine) and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis interact with hormones which are responsible for normal ovulatory cycles: i.e., gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), prolactin, LH and FSH. Endogenous opiates and melatonin secretion are altered by stress and interfere with ovulation. Sympathetic innervation of the female reproductive system provides routes by which stress can influence fertility at the of the sex organs level.

Stress + Fertility = Trouble

Although global infertility prevalence rates are difficult to determine due to the presence of both male and female factors, infertility has been recognized as a public health issue worldwide by the World Health Organization.

One in every four couples in developing countries had been found to be affected by infertility.

Around 50% of these cases are due to males, while the other half is due to female factors. Thus, the burden remains high.

Risk factors which affects fertility

Today, modern medicine has the ability to find out the causes of infertility in an individual through several diagnostic tests and examinations. Using these tests, the treatment focuses on correcting and treating the dysfunction. Infertility can be managed by looking at the reproductive system components.

Ayurveda: Answer to the challenge

Ayurveda pays attention to each individual body type, enhances the body systems participating in the process of fertilization and therefore serves as an excellent alternative for reaching fertilization.

Ayurveda addresses the internal balances and external influences contributing to the problem by building the Ojas, improving the overall health of the individual, stimulating the hypothalamus and pituitary glands thereby indirectly inducing the ovaries to ripen and release eggs.

Ayurveda provides a non-invasive, low cost and non-iatrogenic alternative and complement to modern medicine in the treatment of infertility. Additionally, they tend to promote the systemic health and well-being of the individual.

Only a few products are there in the market which work on the correct principles of Ayurveda and have been established on scientific parameters. One such product is Amycordial for which a multi-centric clinical study was carried out with a combination of Amycordial along with Amree plus which improved fertility rate as 60 % of the patients conceived with the combo therapy in the condition of PCOS.

Similarly, a treatment of male partner with Semento that regulates all the semen parameters, restores anti-oxidant protection in semen Thus, helps fight against unexplained recurrent miscarriages (URM) by protecting sperm DNA and improves conception rate and Amycordial for female partner in cases of unexplained infertility works wonderfully well by reducing oxidative stress over the system and providing toning and nutritive properties to reproductive system.

With the unsurmountable pressure of infertility over our population, it’s high time that we put weight behind the concept of Ayurveda and bring in the prowess of brands like Amycordial along with Amree Plus and semento which can go a long way to fight infertility.