Product Description

According to this reference from a leading authority who has worked with more than 7,000 couples, women who have experienced difficulty conceiving or multiple miscarriages may be suffering from treatable dysfunctions of their immune systems. Providing details that are both technical and accessible, this book explains how chemical therapy can temporarily regulate immune responses that might otherwise unleash natural killer cells. Sections cover the most common and adverse immune problems, including tissue compatibility, blood clotting defects, and antibodies that fight sperm, fetal cells, hormones, and neurotransmitters, and also outline clinical protocol for comprehensive immune testing. The discussion incorporates the author's own dramatic account of his clinical breakthroughs, the rejection of his ideas by mainstream medical practitioners, and his research showing that failed in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility, and repeated miscarriages are often the result of abnormal immune reactions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32945 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 500 pages

Christo Zouves, M.D., Founder and Director of the Zouves Fertility Center and author of “Expecting Miracles: The Path of Hope from Infertility to Parenthood.”
"Finally, a clear message that recurrent IVF failure, infertility and loss can be categorized and treated. "

Zita West, Founder and Director of the Zita West Clinic and author of “Fertility and Conception.”
"This book certainly makes a complex subject reader-friendly from a personal perspective."

Noah Chalfin at the Center for Ethics and Toxics in California.
"Well thought out and researched and an important addition to the literature regarding reproductive health."

Customer Reviews

Best book on pregnancy loss out there
I had three miscarriages before I found this book. After blood tests and a course of treatment I conceived and carried to term for the first time in 5 years. This book is the best ever written on the subject and all doctors should have a copy. IVF does not prevent miscarriage, it just makes it more expensive. Save yourself from more heartache and pain and read this book. Infertility, IVF failure and miscarriage happen for a reason and now you can discover what it is and get treatment to stop it happening again. I now have two beautiful baby boys.

A baby is almost guaranteed if you read this book
If your best friend was a book it would be this one. Dr Beer describes in easy to understand words how the immune system can go into overkill in some women. The result is miscarriage, IVF failure and infertility. But these outcomes can be prevented with the right tests and treatments. I read this book and found it technical when necessary but with lots of human interest stories and studies to back everything up. The authors did a good job making this book accessible to ordinary women and also credible for when they take it to show their doctors. It is not dry like the other reviewer said, it is factual and makes a complex subject understandable. The book is ahead of its time and will make infertility and miscarriage a far less frequent event if only it was more widely known to the medical profession. I had twins as a result of Dr Beer's treatments. I wasted many years and many $ thousands consulting with narrow minded doctors before finding him. I recommend this book with all my heart to all those women who were once suffering like I was. The tests and treatments are out there and this book tells you where to find them.
I wrote this review for Amazon.com but as I have friends in the UK who have also been successful through the Sheffield and Nottingham Care clinic and ARGC in London (who all provide immune treatment) I am posting it here too.

The Science behind the Facts
The book has a high scientific and technical content but notwithstanding that, it is quite insightful and easy to follow.

I have read a few personal experience books where the Women involved were having difficulty concieving had been told that there bodies were producing "killer cells" which ultimately were attacking their bodies and their pregnancies. This did give me an insight into what this meant and also the big question - could this be what is stopping me from having a baby as started to imagine it was the cure for my problems. I discussed it with my Doctor who thought it unlikely and I guess I knew there was a grasping at straws side to this but it did give me an insight into how our bodies work and also gave the confidence to ask the questions anyway.

The book is well written with anicdotes and true life stories so can relate the science to real life and the emotions that sourrond the subject. The chaper of personal storeis was quite uplifting and inspiration and a good way to end the book. The chapter on older women and pregnancy made me think, at last someone not blaming women over 35 who had put off having children and because they have not instantly fall pregnant; are not blamed for not having children in their 20s.

This is a good book if you want to know more about how our bodies work, if you are finding it difficult to fall pregnant or have been pregnant and miscarried and want to know more. It is a very technical book and there are lots of statistics, facts and figures but you can dip into chapters as they are relevant to you rather than having to read the whole thing.