The Endometrial Microbiome

You can also access this event as part of our 2025 Complete Education Package- full details here.

Join Moira and Rhiannon for this engaging two hour webinar, providing key insight into the essential and often detrimental role of the endometrial microbiome in preconception, embryo implantation, IVF failure, miscarriage & pregnancy. Practitioners will come away with the clinical skill required to confidently assess & manage this patient group, including navigating testing and conventional & functional interventions.

The endometrial microbiome is now understood to be implicated in a multitude of factors relating to fertility, IVF, pregnancy and gynaecological health, including:

• Microbiome considerations & patterns.

• Unexplained infertility & IVF failure.

• Endometritis.

• Natural killer (NK) activation.

• Miscarriage & mid term pregnancy loss.

• Preeclampsia, intra-uterine growth restriction & preterm birth.

• Endometriosis, adenomyosis & uterine fibroids.

• Menstrual & vaginal health.

• Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).

• Hormone metabolism.

• Chronic pelvic pain & pelvic inflammatory disease (PID))

• Endometrial hyperplasia and cancer.

Practitioners will leave this comprehensive webinar with a through understanding of the role and implications of the endometrial microbiome, including confidence required to navigate assessment strategies, master clinical management & discuss these issues directly with patients and their medical care providers.

This area is of significant interest to all practitioners working in reproductive & gynaecological health. Safe and effective therapies, as well as the capacity to make risk-benefit analysis decisions in individual circumstances, is of key importance to fertility, gestational and health outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the fundamental role the endometrial microbiome plays in influencing conception, unexplained infertility, IVF failure and NK cell activity.

• Review & fundamental interpretation of testing options available, their validity & accessibility in day-to-day practice, including:

  • Endometrial biopsies.

  • Uterine and peripheral NK cell assays.

  • EMMA & ALICE tests.

  • Menstrual blood microbiome assessments.

  • Relevance of vaginal and gut microbiome assessments.

• Confidence with safe and appropriate oral therapies.

• Confidence with safe and appropriate intra-vaginal therapies.

• Competency in assessing individualised factors required for nuanced consideration regarding the risks and benefits for every unique fertility patient.

• Confidence in discussing implications and results with patients and medical care providers.

🤓 Practitioners eligible for 2 CPD points.

🎥 Ongoing access to recording.

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Dr. Moira Bradfield Strydom (PhD) is the founder of Intimate Ecology clinical and education services. She is a Naturopath, educator and researcher with over 20 years clinical experience who has a passion for helping people experience optimal health in sustainable and sensible ways. 

Clinically, she has a niche interest in recurrent vaginal infections, optimal vaginal and genitourinary health, hormones and the genitourinary microbiomes (vagina, bladder, seminal and penile).

Moira completed a PhD through Griffith University which focussed on the vaginal microbiome and recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis. She also holds a Bachelor of Naturopathy and a Masters degree in Acupuncture from Southern Cross University.

In addition to her role as a Naturopath, Moira has lectured extensively at a tertiary level and in the area of holistic genitourinary health, educating her fellow practitioners to offer support in an often-overlooked area.  

You can find out more about Moira and her services at www.intimateecology.com.au 

Rhiannon Hardingham (BHSc Nat) is an experienced fertility naturopath, presenter, practitioner educator, mentor and author.

As a practitioner Rhiannon is committed to the successful integration of natural and conventional medicine, regularly working alongside Melbourne’s top fertility doctors to achieve the best outcomes for her patients. As testament to this, Rhiannon is routinely invited to present on the topic of collaborative patient care to medical specialists and naturopaths alike.

After 20 years clinical experience in the area of reproductive health, Rhiannon provides professional mentoring and education in both group and individual settings. Her education style is approachable yet thorough, attracting practitioners from all areas of functional medicine, as she assists them to best understand hormone, fertility, pregnancy and menopause cases through expertise in nuanced pathology interpretation and herbal and nutritional medicine prescription.