To Bromelain or Not to Bromelain: That is the Question

Okay. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of women online who think that bromelain is a panacea for implantation problems. "Just eat a lot of pineapple every single day!" I cackle everytime I see some silly young thing post: "I'm eating a half can of pineapple a day..." without realizing that bromelain is an enzyme and needs to be consumed FRESH. Also...I've read online (no scientific study to back this) that fresh pineapple without the core section, if eaten in excess, can actually CAUSE miscarriage. Whoa. So part of the fruit is good, and part of the fruit is disasterous.

But the science geek in me says, "Show me the study!" I've looked high and low for something, anything, that will tell me the following:

1. Bromelain is safe to take when trying to conceive,
   
2. This is how much you should take, and
   
3. Here is the study that verifies all of this.
   

Dr. Z thinks it can't be too harmful to take the stuff, but he admits that he hasn't seen a shred of data to support its usage. I also fired off two separate emails to Dr. Randine Lewis (author of "The Infertility Cure") as she had posted on one website chat board that it did indeed help with implantation. Another person on fertile thoughts said that Dr. Randine claimed that bromelain helped to create the receptors in the uterus that the blastocyst requires for implantation. Again I say, "SHOW ME THE STUDY!"

So I am wearying of much of the crap that I am reading online with respect to infertility and pregnancy. There is just too much (dis)information out there (or assvice as Julianna would put it) and the bad information seems to propagate like wildfire. I do feel for these women who are grasping onto to anything to push the odds in their favor just one percentage point more. Hell, I AM that woman! I admit that I will do just about anything, so long that is is safe and sane, to get pregnant. But I want a study that says, "Yes this works", or something that is "close" to a study. Even anecdotal evidence is better than a plethora of unsubstantiated postings.

Day 6 Arrives

It's noon and it's officially the beginning of day 6 post transfer. Statistically speaking, if implantation tends to occur between day 6.6 and 7.4 post transfer, then my little embies should be getting ready to do their thing in the next 12 to 36 hours or thereabouts (assuming one SD?). In the absence of any compelling studies to show that bromelain is unsafe I have thrown my hat over the fence and have been swallowing 500mg of bromelain a day for the last three days. Is this enough? Too much? Hell if I know.