THE FERTILITY MICROBIOME METHOD
You've done the labs. You've tracked your cycle. You've taken the prenatal, cut the alcohol, done everything right.
And you still don't have answers.
Here's what nobody told you: the standard fertility workup doesn't test your vaginal microbiome. Not one test. Not one question. And yet the research is clear — the organisms living in your vaginal canal directly affect embryo implantation, pregnancy continuation, and live birth rates.
This is the piece that's missing.
Does any of this sound familiar?
1. You've been told everything looks "normal" — but something clearly isn't.
Your bloodwork is fine. Your HSG was clear. Your OB says you're healthy. And you're still not pregnant, or you keep losing pregnancies you couldn't hold.
2. Your BV keeps coming back no matter what you do.
You finish the antibiotics. It clears. Three months later you're back in the same office with the same symptoms. Nobody is asking why.
3. You're doing IVF and nobody has mentioned your microbiome once.
Your clinic has optimized your protocol, your stims, your embryo grading. The one thing that directly predicts live birth rate in IVF has never been discussed.
4. You've taken every supplement recommended online — and you're not sure any of it is helping.
Probiotics, boric acid, iodine, magnesium. Maybe some of it is helping. Maybe some of it is making things worse. You have no way to know because you don't know your baseline.
5. You've had a miscarriage — or more than one — with no clear explanation.
You've been told it was "just bad luck." The research says otherwise. There are organisms that belong in placental tissue from pregnancy losses. Your clinic didn't test for them.
There is a method to this.
The Fertility Microbiome Method is a comprehensive guide to the one piece of the fertility puzzle that most women never learn about until they've already spent years and thousands of dollars looking everywhere else.
Written by KP Richards, ND, HTMAp — a naturopathic doctor specializing in vaginal microbiome and fertility — this guide gives you the clinical knowledge that's been sitting in the research literature while your doctor's protocol hasn't changed in a decade.
What's inside:
PART ONE: What's Actually Living Down There
Why standard vaginal testing misses most of what matters, what DNA-based sequencing actually shows you, and why "normal" on your results means almost nothing for fertility.
PART TWO: The Four Microbiome States That Affect Fertility
The optimal state and how to get there. The L. iners trap — how you can test "good" and still be in the highest-risk category. BV biofilm and why it keeps coming back. Ureaplasma — the organism found in placental tissue from pregnancy losses that isn't on any standard STI panel.
PART THREE: The Mineral Connection
Why your microbiome can't heal without minerals, the copper-estrogen-dysbiosis loop most practitioners aren't connecting, and how HTMA reveals what your serum labs are missing.
PART FOUR: Building Your Protocol
How to read your Evvy or Tiny Health results. The dietary foundation. Targeted supplementation mapped to your specific microbiome state. Your partner's role — and why treating only one of you almost never works.
Who the Fertility Microbiome Method is for
✅ You're TTC — naturally or through IVF — and want to know everything that could be affecting your outcomes
✅ You have recurrent BV that keeps coming back despite treatment
✅ You've had one or more pregnancy losses with no clear explanation
✅ You have unexplained infertility and a clean standard workup
✅ You want to understand your vaginal microbiome results but don't know what you're looking at
✅ You're done waiting for your doctor to bring this up first
This is NOT for you if:
❌ You need 1:1 personalized protocol support based on your specific results — that's what the 1:1 Vaginal Microbiome Session is for
❌ You're looking for a quick fix — this is clinical education, not a magical supplement list
❌ You already know everything about the vaginal microbiome (in which case, hi, are you a researcher? DM me!)
