How Diet contributes infertility

1. How Diet contributes infertility Gurgaon fertility Centre

2. How Diet contributes infertility • Eating unwanted items can stop women ovulating and too many drinks and cigarettes can reduce man’s sperm quality and quantity. • A lack of iron, vitamin D, selenium or iodine can also be standing between you and pregnancy.

3. How Diet contributes infertility

4. Common deficiencies • Iron – iron deficiency can inhibit women from ovulating. Good food sources are red meat, eggs and leafy green vegetables. A supplement should only be taken if a blood test shows a deficiency. • Iodine – iodine deficiency can impair the health of the thyroid gland, a major cause of infertility. “About 50 per cent of my patients are deficient in iodine

5. Common deficiencies • Omega-3 – This is essential fatty acid inspires the production of the hormone progesterone for ovulation to take place. • Vitamin d – vitamin D deficiency can inhibit ovulation, and women with polycystic syndrome are particularly likely to be deficient

6. What to avoid? • Bad fats – like Trans fats found in processed, packaged and fried foods, biscuits and cakes can keep a woman from ovulating. Consume the good fats found in extra virgin olive oil, avocados and nuts and seeds instead. • Cigarettes – it will stringently reduce sperm count and sperm motility.

7. What to avoid? • Alcohol – it moderates the creation of progesterone, can stop ovulation in women and lessens sperm count & motility. • Coffee – Women who drink more than 300ml of coffee a day are twice as likely to experience infertility for a year or more.

8. How Diet contributes infertility • For more details please contact us through, • Website: www.gurgaonfertilitycentre.com  • Email: info@gurgaonfertilitycentre.com • Phone No: +91 – 9873875195

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