Nourishing Bone Broth

Nourishing Bone Broth

Bone broth has been used for centuries in many traditional cultures as a healing, and fertility-enhancing food. Drinking a cup of bone broth daily will have a tremendous impact on your fertility, pregnancy and postnatal health. 

When you cook down the bones of an animal into a broth, the bone marrow and its nutrients—namely fat, protein and trace minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon and sulfur—seep out into the broth making it a rich, nutrient dense, fertility boosting concoction. These nutrients are vital for creating healthy new life.

Blue Ova Wins 2022 “Best Acupuncturists in San Francisco” Expertise Award (Again!)

Blue Ova Wins 2022 “Best Acupuncturists in San Francisco” Expertise Award (Again!)

Blue Ova Health received the award for being one of the “Best Acupuncturists in San Francisco” for 2022. It is an honor to be selected by Expertise yet again, after receiving the honor in both 2019 and 2021 Expertise is a leader in their industry of connecting people with the best local experts.

I Am Love: A Conversation with Artist Radha Mehta

I Am Love: A Conversation with Artist Radha Mehta

Our Community Manager Lena Thaler interviewed artist Radha Mehta to discuss her extraordinary series “I Am Love”; a womxn empowerment series that incorporates the love language of words of affirmation as a form of healing. They discussed creativity, fertility, what it means to nurture, and how being a woman of color shaped her experience with art.

LGBTQIA+ Family Building

LGBTQIA+  Family Building

June is LGBTQ Pride Month!  Blue Ova joins the LGBTQ community in celebrating gay pride in San Francisco and throughout the country. We love supporting LGBTQ families on their family building journeys. We support with the fertility and conception process and throughout pregnancy and postpartum through acupuncture, massage and nutrition. 

The Fertility Learning Gap

The Fertility Learning Gap

Acknowledging and promoting fertility awareness is a critical part of reproductive health education and expanding beyond pregnancy prevention is important. The cultural narrative of pregnancy centers around surprise, ease and magic. We have set a cultural expectation that as soon as one stops preventing pregnancy, they get pregnant. But many of our Blue Ova patients share that they are disappointed and rocked by the challenge of getting pregnant.

Blue Ova Wins 2021 “Best Acupuncturists in San Francisco” Expertise Award (Again!)

Blue Ova Wins 2021 “Best Acupuncturists in San Francisco” Expertise Award (Again!)

Blue Ova Health received the award for being one of the “Best Acupuncturists in San Francisco” for 2021. It is an honor to be selected by Expertise yet again, after receiving the honor in 2019. Expertise is a leader in their industry of connecting people with the best local experts.

Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin Seeds

This week’s nutrition for fertility recipe is a nourishing, warming, bowl of Butternut squash soup and a side of creamy, delicious twice-baked sweet potatoes. With the fall harvest in full swing and our lives in constant motion as the holidays draw near, these recipes are the perfect way to slow down and bring some balance into our lives. The key ingredient of both dishes are the pumpkin seeds, as they are known in Chinese Medicine to especially benefit the kidney and improve the reproductive system in both men and women. 

PCOS Awareness

PCOS Awareness

September is PCOS Awareness Month. PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and it affects 5-10% of women of reproductive age. Part of cultivating our awareness of PCOS is understanding what PCOS is, how it affects different parts of our lives, and how we can respond to a diagnosis. With many of our patients focusing on fertility, we hope to offer a few ways that Chinese Medicine can support optimizing women’s fertility goals to reach their most conceivable cycle and fertile potential.

Seed Cycling for Fertility

Seed Cycling for Fertility

Seeds are a wonderful, easy, and a delicious way to support the body in finding its natural composure. Seed cycling is designed to support hormone production, regulate menstrual cycles, and can even help reduce PMS symptoms. Incorporating seeds into our diet helps promote hormone balance which guide our cycles. 

Coping with Infertility During the Holidays

Coping with Infertility During the Holidays

The holiday season is kicking into full swing, and it can be stressful, even in the best of circumstances. For those enduring fertility challenges, you may not be feeling the holiday cheer.  Not getting pregnant is hard at any time of the year, but it can be worse during the holidays. It’s okay to feel sad about feeling sad. Having these feelings does not make you ungrateful for the blessings you do have. Those feelings are real, they are valid, and you are entitled to them.

Hormone Testing for a Deeper Look at your Reproductive Health

Hormone Testing for a Deeper Look at your Reproductive Health

This National Infertility Awareness Week, we’d like to re-introduce you to your hormones. Whether you are years away from kids, thinking about them soon, currently trying to conceive, or planning for your next one, understanding your hormones is important for your reproductive health and overall wellbeing. 

Foods for your Cycle

Foods for your Cycle

Syncing the food you eat with your cycle is a excellent way to bring mindful eating and supportive nourishment to your body while focusing on fertility.  A healthier cycle is the prerequisite for improving fertility and a healthy pregnancy. Supporting each phase helps you to maintain a regular healthy menstrual cycle, balance your hormones and sustain the health of your eggs and lining.

How To Increase Energy In Our High Demand World

How To Increase Energy In Our High Demand World

As we begin the new year, try to incorporate these practices of being mindful with your body, mind and spirit. Meditation and mindfulness is key, we all have a higher voice inside us that is here to guide the way, yet often times we don’t hear this higher voice because we are stuck in our own head with all the concerns and chatter.

Energy Depletion In Our High Demand World

Energy Depletion In Our High Demand World

During the hustle and bustle of our busy life, many of us become so consumed in our day-to-day and trying to be the best version of ourselves that before we know it, we are tired, stressed, and without energy to enjoy the benefits of all our hard work. Figuring out where to focus our energy can be daunting, but if we start by eliminating things that deplete our energy sources and implementing ways to regain our energy, life can become much easier.