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| - I recently consulted with Dr. Couvaras seeking guidance in how to accurately diagnose and treat infertility. My partner and I have only had one meeting with Dr. Couvaras, but it is very clear from the outset, that he is not your typical fertility doctor. We started by attending his informational seminar on the weekend, where we learned about his background and approach to treating fertility, and then met with Dr. Couvaras in a follow-up meeting.
Dr. Couvaras' approach is based decades of research and his connection to other cutting-edge fertility research out there. He questions and challenges traditional fertility approaches, which treat women (and men) like they are cattle to be injected with tons of hormones, to produce the most eggs and sperm. Instead, Dr. Couvaras thinks about the fertility systems as they relate to the endocrine, circulatory, nervous system, and more. He thinks not only of how to optimize (and heal) those systems so that your body can produce the most HEALTHY eggs (or sperm, if you're a man) on its own. How novel! He is a trailblazer who believes in helping the body heal itself so that it produces, on its own, the most optimal eggs/sperm, AND the most hospitable environment for implantation and nurturing of the embryo. I appreciate that his ethics are so strong, and that he's not going to just do the easy and profitable route of pumping his patients full of hormones just to make it to the end goal of producing tons of eggs/sperm, when the implantation environment may not even host the embryo!
In the past 3-4 years, my husband and I have sought functional and integrative approaches to healing the body for other issues. Doctors with this approach take note of symptoms as "signs" of what's wrong with the underlying systems, rather than just treating the "signs" alone. We refused to go to traditional fertility doctors who would simply say, "well you're over 40, you're just going to have a more difficult time" and "now we're going to give you a ton of hormones that will put your system out of whack but will produce a ton of eggs". No, we waited until we could see Dr. Couvaras, because we knew he would diagnose what's going on with the underlying systems.
What I want to stress, though, is that to me, Dr. Couvaras is the cream of the crop, ie, the best doctor in the functional/integrative medicine approach that I have ever come across! He truly redefines working on the "root cause" of the problem. He is innovative, but that innovation is based on decades of research and collaboration with other root-cause approaches and leaders in the fertility and functional/integrative medicine approach. He is a leader amongst leaders. His approach is data-oriented (proper targeted lab tests, interview questions, clinical examination) and he has a very clear SYSTEMATIC approach to formulating a solid hypothesis as to the problems preventing pregnancy (or causing miscarriage). We have had other doctors who were talented functional medical doctors still get caught up in the complex web of symptoms (which is not treating the root cause!) for myself and my husband. Dr. Couvaras uses the metaphor of "whack a mole" for this phenomenon, and I feel like he was so in sync with our experience of dealing with treating chronic inflammation. I feel that because Dr. Couvaras has a really solid research and clinical experience, he will be able to use that systematic (yet flexible) approach to stay focused on treating the root cause of the problem.
My sense is that even if we cannot have a child, we will both at least be WAY more healthy than we are right now. I used to be super-strong in my early-mid thirties, only to see chronic inflammation cause me to become more and more restrictive with my diet and lifestyle and reduced energy. I am hopeful at the end of this process, my husband and I will at least be more healthy and energetic; but hopefully we will have a child. Even if we cannot, I will know that we will have done everything that is possible to make it happen.
I'm sorry if this review is so long, but it is a testament to a clear, systematic approach with cutting-edge diagnostic and treatment options. There should be more doctors like Dr. Couvaras.
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