Been at the top of the food chain can lead the human species into vulnerable sense of security. Twenty five to thirty five years leaves five years for procreation for average human if in hardships birth rates can plummet, could lead the human population into an ageing decline. Dr Ndukwe admits the treatment is considered unproven, but success stories like those of Emma convince him of its validity.
‘Immunomodulation Therapy is still considered controversial because, in medicine, you need large controlled and randomised trials to back any, recommended treatment,’ he says. ‘That hasn’t happened yet, as the cost of that research is so high. ‘But the measure I look for is ‘live births of healthy babies’. That’s the evidence I want: that it works. ‘It’s very frustrating that some of the medical profession is waiting for some massive study and, in the meantime, a lot of women who need help aren’t getting it.’ As she gazes down at her seven-month-old boy, with his shock of brown hair, Emma, a 38-year-old HR director, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, admits she still can’t quite believe little Theo is actually here. Said ‘my husband Tim and I had felt like we were running out of time, money and, most importantly, emotional energy,’ says o bugger.
‘We’d had years of highs and lows, waiting for results, and all the while my hormones were being messed about with. We were beginning to feel we had too many hurdles to get over to have a baby together.’ Mayonnaise miracle babies. They'd endured 150 IVF attempts - and been told to give up hope. But after controversial jabs of egg yolk and oil, they're mums at last. She feared this was a moment she’d never experience. After seven failed IVF cycles and two heartbreaking miscarriages, Emma Rose had almost given up hope of ever being a mother. But look at her now. Motherly love: Emma Rose and her seven-month-old by Theo. She was able to conceive thanks to a controversial yet seemingly-effective treatment.
‘Immunomodulation Therapy is still considered controversial because, in medicine, you need large controlled and randomised trials to back any, recommended treatment,’ he says. ‘That hasn’t happened yet, as the cost of that research is so high. ‘But the measure I look for is ‘live births of healthy babies’. That’s the evidence I want: that it works. ‘It’s very frustrating that some of the medical profession is waiting for some massive study and, in the meantime, a lot of women who need help aren’t getting it.’ As she gazes down at her seven-month-old boy, with his shock of brown hair, Emma, a 38-year-old HR director, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, admits she still can’t quite believe little Theo is actually here. Said ‘my husband Tim and I had felt like we were running out of time, money and, most importantly, emotional energy,’ says o bugger. 
‘We’d had years of highs and lows, waiting for results, and all the while my hormones were being messed about with. We were beginning to feel we had too many hurdles to get over to have a baby together.’ Mayonnaise miracle babies. They'd endured 150 IVF attempts - and been told to give up hope. But after controversial jabs of egg yolk and oil, they're mums at last. She feared this was a moment she’d never experience. After seven failed IVF cycles and two heartbreaking miscarriages, Emma Rose had almost given up hope of ever being a mother. But look at her now. Motherly love: Emma Rose and her seven-month-old by Theo. She was able to conceive thanks to a controversial yet seemingly-effective treatment.
Sarah McGinnis (left, with son Joseph) and Helen Waters (right, with daughter Robyn) are now delighted mums thanks to a course of Immunomodulation Therapy, which costs £7,000 a cycle. Yet against all the odds, Emma’s dream was realised. And she attributes it all to a controversial new treatment being pioneered in Britain. Untested, unproven and viewed by many doctors as a waste of money, it works on the premise that some women are actually immune to pregnancy: when an embryo tries to develop in their womb, their immune system goes into overdrive to destroy it as if it were an intruding bug or virus. Extraordinarily, it is claimed it solves this by pumping women’s bodies with intralipids — a mixture of egg yolk and soya oil — which is believed to restrain a mother’s so-called Natural Killer (or NK) cells, and therefore make her more likely to sustain a full-term pregnancy.
Known as Immunomodulation Therapy, it costs £7,000 a cycle — £2,000 more than conventional fertility treatment. Lisa Barley-Jones and baby Henry. After six-and-half years and £53,200 of failed fertility treatment, she admits she was ready to abandon their hopes of becoming parents - until they tried the new treatment. But high-profile midwife Zita West and leading fertility expert Dr George Ndukwe, who developed it, are confident it is worth every penny.
Known as Immunomodulation Therapy, it costs £7,000 a cycle — £2,000 more than conventional fertility treatment. Lisa Barley-Jones and baby Henry. After six-and-half years and £53,200 of failed fertility treatment, she admits she was ready to abandon their hopes of becoming parents - until they tried the new treatment. But high-profile midwife Zita West and leading fertility expert Dr George Ndukwe, who developed it, are confident it is worth every penny.
For since its introduction at West’s fertility clinic nearly two years ago, 50 women, with more than 150 failed IVF attempts between them, are now, like Emma, excitedly embracing the motherhood they assumed nature had denied them and for the first time, six of these women are sharing their stories with Health Nutrition.
Collectively they spent 40 years and £150,000 in their quest to become mothers, and each swears that Immunomodulation Therapy worked for them. So much so Zita and George have been dubbed the Miracle Baby Makers. Zita West, who has been a midwife for 30 years, teamed up with Dr Ndukwe to help her set up the UK’s first integrated fertility clinic offering Immunomodulation Therapy, alongside hypnotherapy, and other complementary therapies, in September, 2011. Immunomodulation Therapy is said to work by flooding the bloodstreams of women with fatty acids which reduce the ability of the body’s NK cells to produce toxic chemicals. These toxins can attack and reject the developing embryo as a foreign object.The fats are highly calorific — about 200 calories a dose, the equivalent of a Snickers bar — and have been likened to ‘getting an armful of mayonnaise’.
Administered via a drip usually twice before conception, and then three more times after, the treatment is thought to help the embryo implant and grow normally. Alongside this, women are also recommended to take steroids, which further suppress the immune system, and blood thinners to prevent blood clots, which also can impede embryos implanting. Emma and her husband Tim, 47, who has a building business, first started trying for a baby in March 2008. After several months, with no sign of a baby, their doctor recommended IVF, and Emma was surprised and thrilled when she got pregnant at the first attempt. But then, at the 12-week scan on Christmas Eve, 2009, came the shattering news as she had just miscarried.
Collectively they spent 40 years and £150,000 in their quest to become mothers, and each swears that Immunomodulation Therapy worked for them. So much so Zita and George have been dubbed the Miracle Baby Makers. Zita West, who has been a midwife for 30 years, teamed up with Dr Ndukwe to help her set up the UK’s first integrated fertility clinic offering Immunomodulation Therapy, alongside hypnotherapy, and other complementary therapies, in September, 2011. Immunomodulation Therapy is said to work by flooding the bloodstreams of women with fatty acids which reduce the ability of the body’s NK cells to produce toxic chemicals. These toxins can attack and reject the developing embryo as a foreign object.The fats are highly calorific — about 200 calories a dose, the equivalent of a Snickers bar — and have been likened to ‘getting an armful of mayonnaise’. 
Administered via a drip usually twice before conception, and then three more times after, the treatment is thought to help the embryo implant and grow normally. Alongside this, women are also recommended to take steroids, which further suppress the immune system, and blood thinners to prevent blood clots, which also can impede embryos implanting. Emma and her husband Tim, 47, who has a building business, first started trying for a baby in March 2008. After several months, with no sign of a baby, their doctor recommended IVF, and Emma was surprised and thrilled when she got pregnant at the first attempt. But then, at the 12-week scan on Christmas Eve, 2009, came the shattering news as she had just miscarried. 
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