Fertility Acupuncture
The mechanisms and the research, if you want to see it before you commit to anything.
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Fertility Acupuncture in Las Vegas
I'm Dr. Lisa Grant, OMD, FABORM, a Las Vegas fertility acupuncturist at Spring Mountains Acupuncture (7381 Prairie Falcon Rd #140, 89128, on the Summerlin side), and I build 90-day plans of acupuncture, custom Chinese herbs and lifestyle changes for people trying to conceive naturally or through IUI or IVF.
I start by reviewing all of your bloodwork and fertility testing, order anything that is missing, and work alongside your doctor or IVF plan, not instead of it.
| Spring Mountains Acupuncture | What to ask any clinic | |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioner | Dr. Lisa Grant, OMD; Fellow, American Board of Oriental and Reproductive Medicine (FABORM); NCCAOM board-certified | Is the practitioner FABORM? |
| Focus | Fertility, IVF support, PCOS, endometriosis, pregnancy | Is fertility a primary focus? |
| First step | A consult, then a full review of your bloodwork and fertility testing; anything missing gets ordered | Will they review your labs, or just treat? |
| First visit | About two hours: health history and counseling, then your first treatment | How long is it, and what is included? |
| How often | Many patients start weekly; with complicating factors, three to four visits a month; at minimum two a month | What cadence do they recommend, and why? |
| IVF timing | Ideally 2–3 months before retrieval; also during stimulation and in the weeks before a frozen embryo transfer (see the research below) | When do they recommend sessions, and why? |
| Herbs | Formulated for you, adjusted as your body responds | Are herbs custom, and checked with your fertility clinic? |
| Needle-free option | Laser can be used instead of needles at your visit. Laser-only LLLT sessions (about 20 minutes face-up and 30 minutes face-down under the panel) are $45, or $160 for 4 and $225 for 6. | Is there an option if you dislike needles, and what does it cost? |
| Price | Call (702) 539-9185 for pricing | What does a visit or a full 90-day plan cost? |
| Payment | Due at time of service; insurance is not billed; receipt provided | Will they bill insurance or give a receipt? |
You have been told your odds. You have not been told your options. Those are not the same thing.
Maybe you were handed a number for your age bracket. Maybe you were told your AMH is low, or your FSH is high, or that everything looks normal and there is no reason this should be taking so long. Maybe you were told the next step is IVF and there is nothing to do in the meantime except wait.
Nobody asked what you eat.
Whether you are fasting. How much you are training. What your sleep looks like, or your stress, or your digestion.
Nobody ran a full thyroid panel, or checked you for anemia, or looked at lining inflammation, or whether adenomyosis was ever distinguished from endometriosis.
If you are already taking an antidepressant and someone suggested you stop it to conceive faster, that decision is not mine to make. Depression is an illness. What the studies actually separate — time to conception versus staying pregnant — is on antidepressants and fertility.
So the things that are actually driving your fertility have gone unexamined, and you were given a statistic instead of a plan.
Why I do this
I know what it is to feel betrayed by your own body.
I had three miscarriages. Nobody could tell me why, or what to do about it. No cause, no plan, nothing to try.
That helplessness is something I never want another woman to feel, and it is why my whole practice is built around the question nobody asked me: what is actually going on here, and what can we change?
You are not a set of ovaries
Your ovaries, your follicles, your uterus and your endometrium are not walking around independent of you.
Every system in your body has a say in your fertility.
Your thyroid does. Your gut does. Your blood sugar, your iron, your immune function, your sleep and your stress hormones all do.
Eggs and sperm develop under whatever conditions your body is providing at the time, and those conditions are the product of everything else happening in you.
Fertility sits at the top of your health, not off to one side of it. It is the apex of the pyramid, not the base. If the levels underneath are not built, nothing you pour into the top can hold.
It is also why supplements alone rarely move the needle. You can spend hundreds of dollars a month on CoQ10 and a good prenatal, and if your thyroid is sluggish or your gut is inflamed, most of it never reaches the eggs you bought it for.
Acupuncture and lifestyle changes are equals in this work. Lifestyle is the foundation — how you eat, sleep, move, and manage stress — so acupuncture can rebalance hormones, address the specific fertility issue, and tie everything together. Both are critical.
The 90 day window
The egg you will ovulate three months from now started developing today.
An immature follicle takes about 90 days to become an ovulated egg. Your cycle is only the last month of that process. The same is true for sperm: roughly 90 days from immature to mature.
Which means the changes you make this month have their fullest effect on the egg arriving in three months.
Ninety days is the window for maximal improvement. That is not the only useful window. Treatment started later can still help the body move toward better health.
If you are already in an IVF cycle, still come in — there is still benefit.
It is never too late to start.
Today the changes you make now
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Month 1
Follicle recruited. Invisible on any scan.
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Month 2
Growing under whatever conditions your body provides.
Where the work actually happens
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Month 3
Your cycle. The only month most plans address.
Where most women start
Day 90 the egg they land on
You get twelve attempts a year. Start the 90-day work before that optimal window so those attempts happen under better conditions.
If you want the shape of that plan before a consult, read what a fertility plan looks like before you start trying.
Is acupuncture worth paying for during IVF, and when?
IVF patients ask two things most: whether to pay for sessions on transfer day, and when sessions do the most good. Here is what reviews of randomized trials found about timing.
| When | What the reviews found | Source |
|---|---|---|
| On embryo-transfer day (before and after transfer) | A higher clinical pregnancy rate than no treatment, but no difference compared with sham acupuncture, and no effect on live birth | Meta-analysis of 11 RCTs, searches to May 2025 |
| During ovarian stimulation (fresh cycles) | Higher clinical pregnancy rate (RR 1.33) | Meta-analysis of 38 RCTs, 5,991 participants (2024) |
| Before a frozen embryo transfer (FET) | Higher clinical pregnancy rate (RR 1.71) and live birth rate (RR 2.40) | Same 2024 review |
| Before stimulation, or on transfer day only | No reproductive benefit shown | Same 2024 review |
| More sessions | Pregnancy rates rose at every dose, but only the high-dose group showed a significant rise in live birth (RR 1.75) | Same 2024 review |
What this means for planning: if your budget only covers a few sessions, the research points to spreading them through stimulation or the weeks before a frozen transfer, not spending it all on transfer day. I do not promise a percentage (see IVF support). I plan sessions around your RE’s calendar and the 90-day window.
How we work together:
Book a consult
One conversation. You tell me what has been happening and what you have already tried.
Send in your records
I review all of your bloodwork and fertility testing, order anything that is missing, and go through your results and your daily life with you line by line. Not a summary. Line by line.
Reset your fertility
Acupuncture, herbs formulated for you specifically, and targeted changes to nutrition, supplements, movement and stress, delivered across the 90 days your eggs are already developing in.
Find your situation
Fertility programs & support
Every path below starts from the same 90 day window. Choose the one that matches where you are right now.
Fertility Programs
The two structured paths through this: the 90 Day Fertility Reset, and the Fertility Transfer Program for women preparing for an FET.
Learn moreIVF Support
If you have a cycle coming up. IVF is very good at retrieval, fertilisation and transfer. Improving the raw material going in is the part I work on.
Learn moreMale Fertility
Sperm is half the equation and responds to the same 90 day window. In Las Vegas it needs particular attention, because heat is hard on sperm DNA.
Learn moreEndometriosis
If endometriosis is part of your picture, it needs treating as a condition in its own right — not only as a fertility footnote.
Learn morePCOS
A metabolic condition that shows up in your cycles and fertility. Start here if PCOS is part of your picture.
Learn moreRecurrent Miscarriage
If you have been getting pregnant and not staying pregnant. Most causes of recurrent loss are ones Chinese medicine can address — “unexplained” is not “untreatable.”
Learn moreUnexplained Infertility
If you were told everything looks normal and there is no reason this should be taking so long. Unexplained is not the same as nothing left to check.
Learn moreLow AMH
If a number after birth control — or a DOR label — was treated as a verdict. AMH is not the same as what your eggs can do in the next 90 days.
Learn moreEndometritis
If lining inflammation was never checked — or someone used a word that sounds like endometriosis. Unexplained is not the same as nothing left to check.
Learn moreAdenomyosis
If lining tissue in the uterine muscle was lumped in with endometriosis — or never named. They are not the same condition.
Learn moreAntidepressants
If you take an antidepressant and wonder whether it is why conception is slow. Depression stays treated. Stopping the medication is not the plan.
Learn moreFertility Laser
Low level laser therapy for egg quality, blood flow, and thin lining. Useful if you are over 38, a poor responder, or have scarring from previous surgery.
Learn morePregnancy Support
For after. Nausea, exhaustion, bleeding, breech.
Learn moreEndometriosis and PCOS both affect a great deal more than fertility, and both need treating as conditions in their own right. The cards above take you to those pages.
If you are not in Las Vegas, or you want to start with education before a consult, the free Fertility Reset Roadmap email course is five days of the mistakes I see most often.
Why me
I am not here to talk you out of your RE. I am here to make sure the eggs they retrieve are the best ones your body can make.
- Fellow, American Board of Oriental and Reproductive Medicine (FABORM) — two years of post-graduate fertility training
- Nationally board certified by NCCAOM in Oriental Medicine, acupuncture and Chinese herbs
- Licensed Oriental Medicine Doctor (OMD) in Nevada
- Appointed by the Governor of Nevada to the State Board of Oriental Medicine; served as Secretary/Treasurer and retired 3 years ago after 6 years
- 15+ years treating fertility and women's health
- Japanese-style needling, gentle enough that needle-phobic patients relax through treatment
What you can expect to feel
I cannot promise you a pregnancy, and I will not.
What I can tell you is what patients consistently report along the way: more energy, better sleep, calmer, periods that no longer take days out of the month, digestion that works. Many of them say the most valuable part was finally understanding their own body well enough to stop guessing.
And whatever happens, you will know you did everything you could.
Start here
Book a consult
One conversation, no commitment beyond it.
Not in Las Vegas? Start with my free Fertility Reset Roadmap. A 5-day email course where I walk you through the 5 most common mistakes you're probably making when trying to get pregnant
Learn about the Fertility Reset Roadmap
Fertility acupuncture questions
Who is a fertility acupuncturist in Las Vegas?
I’m Dr. Lisa Grant, OMD, FABORM, at Spring Mountains Acupuncture (7381 Prairie Falcon Rd #140, Las Vegas, NV 89128). I focus on fertility, IVF support and women’s health, with 15+ years in fertility care.
Does Spring Mountains Acupuncture take insurance?
Payment is due at the time of service and insurance is not billed directly. You receive a receipt to submit if your plan reimburses acupuncture.
How many fertility acupuncture visits will I need?
Many patients start weekly. With complicating factors, plan on three to four visits a month; at a minimum, two visits a month. Treatment runs across the 90 days your eggs are developing in.
How long before trying should I start fertility acupuncture?
Ninety days is the window for maximal change, because eggs and sperm mature over months.
That is not the only useful window. Treatment started later can still help, including if you are already in an IVF cycle.
Start the 90-day work before that optimal window when you can.
Can I use acupuncture with IVF?
Yes — as adjunct support. Tell your reproductive endocrinologist, especially before herbs or supplements. See our IVF support page and Library articles on transfer timing.
Should I get acupuncture on embryo transfer day?
Reviews of randomized trials found transfer-day acupuncture did no better than sham acupuncture and did not change live birth rates. Sessions during ovarian stimulation, or in the weeks before a frozen embryo transfer, showed more benefit.
Do you only treat women?
No. Male factor and partner support are part of couple fertility care when relevant.
What is the first step?
Request a consultation. Fertility patients may also complete educational workshop materials as part of onboarding.
Ready to find out what is actually going on?
Book a consult. One conversation, tell me what has been happening and what you have already tried.
Book a ConsultNot in Las Vegas? Start with my free Fertility Reset Roadmap. A 5-day email course where I walk you through the 5 most common mistakes you're probably making when trying to get pregnant
Learn about the Fertility Reset Roadmap