Advancing Restorative Reproductive Medicine

Insights from the RRM Community

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Recurrent Miscarriage

“RRM dug deeper and told me something invaluable about my overall health.”

Leah and her husband suffered recurrent pregnancy loss, experiencing three consecutive miscarriages over an 18-month timespan, all while her obgyn “didn’t have any answers, and didn’t really want to look for them.” Dr. Kongoasa identified a gene mutation that was the likely culprit for the miscarriages and carries important implications for Leah’s future healthcare. Following treatment, Leah and her husband were able to conceive and maintain pregnancy, and went on to have two babies following their RRM care: “RRM dug deeper and told me something invaluable about my overall health, and they gave me a solution that allowed me to carry my two children to term.”

-- Leah from Virginia

(treated by Dr. Nicholas Kongoasa)

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Complex Underlying Factors

“Restorative reproductive medicine instilled hope into me.”

As newlyweds Catherine and her husband experienced the shock and pain of infertility in the first year following their marriage: “the positive pregnancy tests never came,” says Catherine. “It was a shock to someone who was always seen as ‘perfectly healthy,’ or so I thought.” This case illustrates how even patients who feel mostly “healthy” can have chronic, complex underlying factors producing serious fertility challenges. Dr. Kongoasa identified multiple underlying female factors including previously undiagnosed PCOS, endometriosis, subclinical hypothyroidism, and insulin resistance, as well as five blood-clotting disorders. “When I was falling into despair amid infertility, restorative reproductive medicine instilled hope into me. I was never told, ‘you have unexplained infertility, there’s nothing we can do here.’” Catherine and her husband went on to have a beautiful baby girl: “Not only do I have a healthy baby, but my healthy baby gets a healthy mommy.”

-- Catherine from Virginia

(treated by Dr. Nicholas Kongoasa)

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Unexplained Infertility

“I no longer believe in unexplained infertility, just infertility that we don’t yet have an answer to.”

RRM surgeon Dr. Gavin Puthoff introduced patient Kalynn who suffered from severe cycle pain throughout her life and five years of infertility with her husband: “Despite years of seeing other doctors for their infertility, Kaylynn and her husband Wade had never been told the ‘why’ behind their infertility; instead, they’d been given the easy diagnosis of ‘unexplained infertility.’” Dr. Puthoff diagnosed Kalynn with endometriosis, and she underwent a 10-hour laparoscopic surgery to excise the stage IV disease. Following surgery Kalynn was pain-free and, within three months, pregnant with a healthy baby boy who was born in July 2025. Dr. Puthoff underscored that RRM gives patients “more than the gift of fertility…it also improves their overall health for the long term and allows them to conceive a pregnancy in a state of health, which is crucial and important, and is something they would not get through the IVF process.” “Not only did RRM help me to become a mom,” says Kalynn, “but helped me to feel well enough to be the mom that I always dreamed of being. Restorative reproductive medicine truly has changed my life and the life of my family.”

-- Kalynn and Wade from Missouri

(treated by Dr. Gavin Puthoff)