Well…I was wrong. Turns out fertility rates are down. Here are 3 reasons why plus what you can do about it.

Stress

There’s more uncertainty in our society now than in decades, and it shows. Divorce rates are up. Childcare options are down. And we’re concerned for our relatives and friends with pre-existing conditions or compromised immune systems. As you probably know, stress is the enemy of fertility — our body takes resources away from reproduction when it’s in fight-or-flight. So it’s no surprise that people are having a harder time now getting pregnant. Freya Fertility Tea was actually designed to combat stress, with specific Chinese herbs to replenish your energy, balance your hormones, and nourish your body.

Fewer Fertility Options

In many states, fertility clinics and treatment options like acupuncture (which is proven to help a woman conceive by 67%) are shut down due to the pandemic. Some may never reopen, while some are opening on a limited schedule or with significant precautions. Many women I’ve spoken to want to get pregnant now, but are struggling to conceive without additional reproductive support, which makes Freya such a great option as you can nurture your fertility from home.

Economic and Job Instability

Some couples put their dreams of a family on the back burner when there’s instability in their job or in the economy. While the stock market has done quite well despite the pandemic, the job market is going through a big change. However, if you work from home you may have an advantage when it comes to conceiving — less travel, no commute, and perhaps a better ability to eat healthy and exercise if you can make your own schedule. Many companies are planning to keep their work-from-home policy even after they reopen, giving many moms-to-be more flexibility.

We want to support you in getting pregnant, despite these conditions. Freya Fertility Tea is the optimal supplement for these chaotic times, even if you can’t get in to see an acupuncturist or fertility specialist.

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Xoxo, Violet

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Here at the Freya Family we’re continuing to share Freya with moms-to-be around the world, women who want to get pregnant but need a little help. Our mamas have been conceiving, carrying, and birthing their little ones, creating this new generation that’s been called “Coronials.”

Could this be the perfect time for you to conceive?

Whether you’re ready for a baby now, yesterday, or in the future, it’s a great time to care for your reproductive health.

I’ve been taking the Freya Daily blend for the past month, and it’s made a world of difference with my moods, energy, and cycle.

Did you know Freya Daily blend is even safe for breastfeeding, as it’s a blood builder and helps you recharge (without caffeine or other stimulants)?

I’ll begin taking Freya Menstrual and Luteal formulas once I stop breastfeeding, but for now I love knowing my womb (and my spirit) are getting a little extra TLC. I love knowing that Freya will help me get pregnant again, like it did with our baby Ruby in 2019.

How have you been holding up? Are you growing closer to your partner during this time, or have there been challenges in your relationship? How’s your body, your cycle, and your mood?

We’d love to help you on your fertility journey and we invite you to try Freya again or for the first time here: www.freyahealth.com/buy

And if you’re not looking to conceive but want some additional support dealing with stress and boosting your vitality and immune system, check out the first CBD tea with Chinese herbs for women, Freya Radiance.

Xoxo, Violet and the Freya Family

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I am so thrilled to announce our baby Ruby is on her way! She’s due soon and we’re over the moon 🙂

In fact, I was totally shocked to get pregnant so quickly…although I should have expected it, because I was taking Freya.

Freya helped me get pregnant within a few months…instead of the average 9+ months it takes for a woman over 35 to get pregnant.

I have been wanting to have a baby since I was in my early 20s…but by the time I found my lifetime partner, things weren’t as fast as I wanted them to be.

In fact, our first two months we didn’t get pregnant, I began to worry.

Luckily I had been taking Freya for a few months so my body was prepared. And we got pregnant just a few months later!

As some of you may know, we had a miscarriage in December of 2018 (after getting pregnant in October of that year). We had been “trying” since July and I had been taking Freya since April.

But we got pregnant just two months after the miscarriage, as Freya had helped me heal and renew so I could be ready for the next pregnancy.

Baby Ruby is healthy and right on track and I’m so grateful!

Listen now and set yourself up for pregnancy success with Freya here: www.freyahealth.com/buy

Xoxo, Violet

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If you have been trying to get pregnant for over 6 months…

If you’re over 35 years old and looking to get pregnant (now or in the future)…

And if you’ve used birth control in the past…

You may need to look at your fertility. But you may be nervous, thinking that you need to look at medical procedures like IVF, when there’s actually a simpler way (which is also more effective and totally natural).

Did you know that Chinese Medicine has been shown to improve fertility by 60%, making it easier to get pregnant without costly procedures? Yes, that’s right, there is an ancient tradition of using chinese herbs for fertility that modern science is now backing up.

Chinese Medicine was also shown to improve IVF success rates by two-fold after just a three to four month period (a worthy investment, given IVF cycles are typically $25,000 each and don’t always succeed).

Two of the trials in the original study even found that Chinese herbs helped reduce pain from endometriosis.

And, research has shown that Chinese medicine can help women who haven’t been ovulating.

In fact, one of our Freya women hadn’t ovulated in over four months, but within weeks of taking Freya she started ovulating again.

Many women have gotten pregnant, naturally, using Freya herbal tea (and I’m one of them!).

Freya is an all-natural Chinese Medicine herbal tea, which tastes delicious and anyone can purchase here

Drinking Freya helps to improve your reproductive health so you feel more confident about your fertility and your cycles.

All you have to do is mix Freya into a cup of warm water and drink, twice a day. I used Freya to help get pregnant in just a few months, and I loved having this morning and evening ritual to nourish my fertility.

The cool part is that each month of Freya you purchase has three blends of tea for you to most effectively care for your fertility:

1. a daily blend for after your period and during ovulation
2. a luteal blend for when a fertilized egg attaches to your uterus
3. a menstrual blend for the days you bleed, so you can be sure you’re releasing any stuck energy and preparing to get pregnant the next cycle

We’re building a revolution in fertility by empowering women to nurture their fertility now, and protect their reproductive future, with Freya.

Stress, long-term birth control use, being older than 35, and having irregular cycles can all make getting pregnant much harder. That’s why Freya is important for proactively taking care of your fertility now.

If you have adverse conditions like PCOS or endometriosis, we suggest taking Freya and seeing a local acupuncturist.

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If you find yourself in this boat I am sure you have seen both sides to this story. It can be easy to dismiss alternative medicine as “woowoo” or the stuff of witches and dreams. And while I by no means want to dismiss any type of subtle energy work or alternative practices, Traditional Chinese Medicine is perhaps the most evolved and practiced form of medicine in existence. While our recently created platform for quantifying and qualifying science doesn’t always provide a definitive opinion of the complexities of TCM, there are undeniable papers written on the powerful effects of treatments such as acupuncture and Chinese herbal therapies. While modern science is cautious to fully support alternative methods, there are thousands of case studies and personal accounts from doctors, practitioners, scientists, and people just like us who have benefitted from the ancient wisdom of Chinese Herbal Medicine.

We will be exploring one amazing case study proving the ability for CHM to renew and restore a diminished ovarian reserve and lead a 43 year old woman to a healthy, natural conception and birth of her beautiful baby girl.

To provide some historical significance, the earliest written record of Traditional Chinese Medicine is from the 3rd century bce and hundreds of modern western medicines have been created from the healing plants used in China. Chinese Herbalism is a widely used tool by nearly 1 in 5 Americans and is increasingly being studied. The Chinese have been treating and supporting women’s health, conception and pregnancy for thousands of years. While the process is ever evolving just as we are, there have been certain herbal formulas studied and proven to work.

Which brings us to the case study written by 4 doctors of gynecology, obstetrics, and traditional Chinese medicine. (You can read the entire case study here.) A 43 year old woman had come to them with diminished ovarian reserve, multiple uterine fibroids and IVF had failed her. She had an irregular period, an inflamed uterus from the fibroids, her right ovary wasn’t visible in a pelvic ultrasound, and she had multiple hormonal levels out of the normal range. She tried controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and FSH injections but they only retrieved one mature oocyte and she was unable to conceive after it was fertilized. When the doctors told her she should stop IVF and begin thinking about egg donation, she instead decided to try Chinese Herbal Medicine.

The basis of Chinese medicine is to treat the body as a whole, looking at the way energies move through meridians and how different organs are connected to different symptoms and imbalances. Acupuncture points are a map to connect to these organs and meridians to help move blood or energetic stagnation and to bring the body back into balance. Certain herbs have been found to help bring balance to the body. When it comes to DOR, the Chinese classify it as symptom of irregular, scanty, or an abnormal absence of menstruation and infertility. The herbs used are often aiming to help renew spleen and kidney deficiencies and improve blood stagnation to rejuvenate the uterus. You can read another paper on the “Advancement in the treatment of Diminished Ovarian Reserve by Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine” and the details of 40 women that were treated for Spleen and Kidney deficiency to improve their ability to get pregnant after being diagnosed with DOR.

With the 43 year old woman we were discussing above, The doctors chose to prescribe an herbal formula and tested her hormonal levels and ovulation through the next 6 months until she reached conception. “The herbal formula used in this case is able to balance yin and yang, nourish blood and invigorate blood circulation from a TCM perspective. In medical science, the CHM formula may restore ovarian function through improving blood flow to the reproductive organs, regulating hormone secretions, lowering systemic inflammation as well as having anti-tumour properties.” After one month of treatment her hormone levels were beginning to balance out. After 4 months, her period became regular and an ultrasound showed that both ovaries were a normal size and her uterus had reduced in size showing a minimizing of the uterine fibroids. After 5 months, her progesterone was raised significantly showing that her ovarian function was improving and at 6 months she achieved natural conception. 

9 months later this woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

You can read in the case study about each herb that was prescribed and what it does for the body according to TCM and in modern pharmacology. You will also see that the formula was changed slightly about 13 weeks into treatment. The wonderful thing about Chinese Herbal Medicine is that exactly, unlike western medicine’s prescription drugs it can be tailored specifically to the clients. Another important consideration is that these herbal formulas can be used cooperatively with IVF treatments and other western medicine. Furthermore, CHM is pain free, far cheaper, and because it targets the woman as a whole being, it is supportive of her emotional and mental state as well as her physical imbalances. Over all, TCM and Chinese Herbal Therapies can provide a safe, natural, and truly nurturing alternative for a woman who has been diagnosed with Diminished Ovarian Reserve.

Freya Health has made it their goal to provide women with high quality medicine, tailored to the woman struggling to achieve pregnancy whether or not they can receive ongoing treatments from a practitioner. The herbal formula used in this study is very similar to Freya Healths’ “Daily Formula”. Designed to work in conjunction with two other formulas, the one-month supply of Freya Health provides a women with herbal support for each specific phase of her cycle. 

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In 20 years of practicing acupuncture and chinese medicine in Colorado, I’ve seen the age of women preparing to conceive keep on getting older. There is a natural decline in fertility that happens once a woman gets over 30, but the decline is not uniform and is impacted by numerous factors. Genetics, diet, exercise, stress and environment all play a factor. I counsel my patients in their early thirties that their fertility is a treasure to be preserved, even if they never plan to have children. Your fertility can be thought of as the savings of your energetic system, the built up reserves of vitality that can be used on that which is most important to you.

It is more often than not that women already know that something is a bit awry in their reproductive system. Often it is subclinical, meaning it is more of a bother than an actual medical condition but noticeable none-the-less. The cycles that are irregular, the days where you are fatigued, the cramps painful enough that you are concerned. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, these are signposts guiding us that our body needs some support regulating the dynamic balance of our hormonal health.

Experience becomes the best teacher clinically and I’ve learned that if we can balance the cycles when they are first becoming challenging, it is relatively easy to do so and rewarding in the body feeling overall more radiant and energetic. When a patient comes in their late 30s or early 40s with cycles that are irregular and reproductive health challenges, I often wish that I could have started giving them herbs a few years earlier. That is not to say that we can’t bring the cycles back into balance at that point but the effort needed to change the underlying patterns is much more difficult.

I’ve formulated Freya to be a three part formula to support the three phases of the cycle. The first formula, the Menstrual, you take when you start bleeding and it supports the shedding of the top layers of the endometrium and the growth of the next round of follicles. The second formula, the Daily, supplies rich nutrients to support healthy ovulation and building up the body’s resources. The third formula, the Luteal, prepares the uterus and supports the endometrium in building up healthy layers. When taken in sequence, the herbs help support and correct the natural fertility cycle in a way that is quite amazing.

These herbs and formulas have been safely used by acupuncturists and chinese doctors for hundreds of years. We are hearing amazing results from those taking Freya and we’d love you to join our community of women who are proactively taking care of their fertility and to share it with your tribe.

Marco Lam
Chinese Medicine Expert
Freya Formulator

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It’s kinda a lot of pressure, right?

The stars need to align, our bodies need to be healthy, and our partner needs to be connecting to us (aka doing the deed).

But sometimes schedules and stress can throw everything off.

How many months have you been excited to conceive, but then he’s “not in the mood” or stressed about work or you’re kinda fighting?

How many YEARS have you been longing to be a mom, just waiting for that right partner, and finally he’s here and ouch, it’s been hard to get pregnant.

So many factors can f’up our pregnancy…

Don’t let stress or poor reproductive health be one of them. Make sure that every window you have, you use — and that your body is READY for baby and healthy enough to conceive.

Even if you’re outwardly healthy though, it doesn’t mean your fertility is healthy. It’s a different system and even people who do yoga and drink green juice can have messed up reproductive systems too.

I know when I’m in touch with my feminine energy, healthy mind/body/spirit, and connecting to my partner, magic happens. That’s how we conceived for the first time. I was paying attention to my body’s rhythms AND I had the support of Freya to help me get pregnant.

We recommend taking Freya for three months to reset your fertility and prepare for baby. In fact Jason and I got pregnant on the third try, instead of it taking a year (average time to conceive over 35 is a year!).

If you’re not in the mood to take care of your health, don’t expect him to be in the mood to make a baby. It takes two.

Xoxo, Violet and the Freya Team

PS if you’re in the mood for baby and your body isn’t cooperating, it’s time to do something different. Freya helps nourish your fertility naturally and it’s easy to enjoy: www.freyahealth.com/buy

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Our womb space is internal…mysterious…unknown for most of us.

Many women aren’t that connected to their reproductive system, unless they have a challenging cycle or want to get pregnant.

But often times that’s too far down the path. The time to connect with your body and your future family is NOW.

Fertility doesn’t have to be a black box. There are proven ways to improve your chance of conceiving — Chinese Medicine helps fertility by 67%.

Freya is powerful Chinese Medicine — a delicious herbal tea that you take twice a day to nourish your fertility naturally.

Do you want to find out about your chances of baby later, or take care of it now?

Xoxo, Violet and the Freya Team

P.S. If you aren’t sure about your fertility and want to be reassured you’re taking care of it naturally, Freya can help — you can start with one month here: www.freyahealth.com/buy

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