If you've been trying to conceive for a while and the standard tests have not found a reason, you are not alone! Between 25 - 50% of couples who have not fallen pregnant within 12 - 18 months fall into this category. It's especially common if you are over 35 as the 'standard' tests are not able to measure egg quality or pinpoint issues to do with a healthy endometrium (the uterine lining that a fertilised egg needs to implant and thrive) and don't measure actual levels of oestrogen and progesterone. Generally speaking neither eggs nor sperm are tested for DNA damage which increases as you get older.
If your cycle is regular, you may not realise if your hormone balance is not optimum. If you're not tracking or charting ovulation, you won't be able to tell if you are ovulating regularly - we highly recommend you do this if aren't already - either with an ovulation prediction kit or by charting basal body temperature.
There are also some lifestyle interventions that might help - stopping smoking if you smoke being the most important. Staying within or getting to a recommended weight for your height, taking moderate daily physical exercise, limiting or eliminating caffeine and alcohol. Reducing levels of stress through mindfulness/meditation has also been shown to be helpful.
And of course, FertilitySmart Conceive for Women and Men! Both of our formulas have been shown to increase chances of conception. Conceive for Women works by balancing the key hormones of oestrogen and progesterone essential for conception, improving rates of ovulation, providing all the nutrients necessary for creating a healthy endometrium and increasing blood flow to the reproductive organs. Conceive for Men will help improve all parameters of sperm health, count, morphology and motility. And they both contain high levels of antioxidants to protect rapidly developing cells, like eggs and sperm, from DNA damage.