#461: Fertility Back In Balance With Acupuncturist Emily Marson
Birthing Instincts
Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
What if infertility isn’t a broken body… but a disconnected one?
In this episode, Blyss and Stu sit down with integrative fertility expert Emily Marson to challenge everything you’ve been told about conception, IVF, and what it actually means to “optimize” the body for pregnancy.
From the forgotten intelligence of the body to the overreach of modern fertility medicine, this conversation pulls back the curtain on why more intervention isn’t always the answer, and what happens when you start working with physiology instead of overriding it.
About Emily:
Emily Marson is the Founder and CEO of Aphrodite Fertility Acupuncture, a San Diego–based integrative fertility clinic specializing in root-cause infertility, acupuncture for IVF, cycle syncing, and hormonal regulation through Chinese medicine and holistic care. Her team supports women who feel stuck, discouraged, or failed by conventional fertility approaches alone.
Emily’s work blends Traditional Chinese Medicine with evidence-informed fertility and pregnancy care, functional and lifestyle-based strategies, and a deep understanding of the full arch of womanhood - from cycle to fertility, to pregnancy and postpartum. Her mission is to improve women's health by giving women personalized care, and a structured path forward toward a healthy pregnancy and beyond.
Instagram: @aphroditefertility
Website: aphroditefertility.com
E-mail: info@aphroditeacupuncture.com
References:
GoFund me for Suzannah: https://gofund.me/31b9a66bd
Book: The last in vitro, by Dr. Francisco Güell
Discussed in This Episode
Why doctors treat body parts, not people
The physiology behind acupuncture
IVF vs. Physiology: Control vs. Coordination
Why Fertility Rates Are Dropping Acupuncture for Men
What Acupuncture Can Do in Pregnancy
The Hidden Risks of IVF
Integrative fertility as the bridge back to physiology
Podcast Produced by: Raquel Hernandez, Pride and Joy Doula Care
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Burthing Instincts podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, a hospital and home birth obstetrician for over 40 years, and a long-time advocate for birth choices. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Bliss Young, a traditional midwife. |
| 0:15.0 | Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything births. |
| 0:20.0 | Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy |
| 0:22.7 | that you're here. So here we go. It's my favorite thing. It's Wednesday. Pretty sweet. That's |
| 0:30.3 | pretty cool. I'm pretty lucky. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good morning, everybody. Good afternoon, good evening, |
| 0:35.2 | and good evening and good middle of the night to the rest of you. |
| 0:43.3 | And welcome to our podcast again. It's me and Bliss hanging out. We do have a guest today and we'll talk a little bit more about Emily in a minute. What's going on with you, Bliss? We had a great, we had a nice |
| 0:50.0 | Q&A last night. Yeah, cool. They're always really nice. |
| 0:57.4 | Was there something in particular that you really enjoyed? |
| 1:00.0 | One of the things we talked about was the smell of birth. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, someone asked that. |
| 1:07.6 | It was a doula mom who asked that question about if we had recognized that birth smell and some of the midwives definitely did. Yeah. And I, you know, I don't have a |
| 1:15.0 | great sense of smell, but there is a distinct smell, whether they call it earthy or musky or |
| 1:21.4 | somebody said like, hey, but it's not an unpleasant smell. It's actually, there must be some biological reason that you can be in different households or different hospitals and putting aside the smell of the hospital itself, that you get that same scent. |
| 1:38.5 | Not in every pregnancy, not in every woman who's laboring, but you get that sense. |
| 1:44.3 | Sense of scent. |
| 1:45.6 | Oh, there we go. |
| 1:46.9 | So there's something to it. |
| 1:49.3 | And there must have been a biological reason for it. |
| 1:52.2 | Yeah. |
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