Treating Infertility: The New Frontier of Reproductive Medicine

Published March 18, 2025

Since Louise Brown’s birth in 1978, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has transformed infertility procedures and reproductive healthcare in the United States. This technology led to the conception of an entire industry devoted to producing babies through assisted reproductive technology, surrogacy, and egg/sperm donation. But there is a dark side to the fertility industry that few people are aware of: embryonic children frozen for decades in fertility clinics, genetic screening tests picking winners and losers based on the embryos’ sex, health, or IQ, and the widespread destruction of embryos either intentionally or through neglect. Nonetheless, with infertility affecting 16% of couples in the United States, many are told that IVF is the best, or the only, treatment available for them if they want to have a child.

But what if there is another way?

Two things have become abundantly clear to the authors of this series. First, IVF may succeed in producing an embryonic child outside of the body, but it cannot heal or improve ongoing reproductive health conditions in the body that often lead to miscarriage, the failure to implant, or painful symptoms. Second, advances in restorative reproductive medicine offer an incredible opportunity to identify, diagnose, and treat painful reproductive health conditions in men and women, including those that are the driving cause of infertility. Men and women are worthy of the highest standard of medical care, including personalized treatments that treat the root causes of their infertility.

We have broken these papers into two parts. The first part introduces restorative reproductive medicine, a series of medical protocols that endeavor to treat the root causes of reproductive dysfunction and infertility. The second part provides an overview of the fertility industry, the current laws and regulations governing the industry, and the future of assisted reproductive technology. Our hope is that this series serves as a resource for those who seek to understand best practices for treating infertility and navigating the fertility industry.

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