Diet choices significantly affect health and fertility levels, and adjusting diet to increase the variety of minerals, oils, and vitamins is a potent way to raise conception rates and health. Diet underpins all bodily processes, including sexual health, with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) usually involving high blood sugar levels from diet c...
Smoking and Fertility
Smoking and fertility have an interesting relationship, and most smokers start in their teens or as young adults when looking older, sexier and more sophisticated is part of the appeal. They weren’t entirely wrong, as chemicals in the smoke physically age people by damaging cells and accelerating their death. In time, and with the inevitable a...
Supplements and Fertility
Supplements are usually seen as a good news story for fertility, and they’re widely advised for pregnancy and preconception to improve the health of parents and their babies, but they are necessary? Two 2016 reviews reached very different conclusions: A BMJ study concluded that prenatal and pregnancy supplements are generally unnecessary and ...
Oxidative stress and Fertility
Oxidative stress is the term for the potential damage that all living cells have to control simply because sugars, fats and proteins are “burnt” to provide the energy and warmth cells need to function and stay alive. When things burn, they release chemicals, and we’re pretty familiar with this idea; engines and fires give of...