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How nutrition affect fertility?

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Answer from: Xanthi Maragkoudaki, MSc, ANutr, PhD

Dietician / nutritionist, Lecturer in Nutrition and Public Health at University of Westminster
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There has been some evidence showing that the ratio of carbohydrates and the ratio of fats and the consumption of fats can affect the AMH levels. It has been shown that actually increased consumption of saturated fats can increase levels of a Anti-Mullerian hormone where the opposite is happening for the carbohydrates. Vitamin D has also been shown to be associated with Anti-Mullerian hormone. While we know that this is a hormone also associated with polycystic ovary syndrome, we would assume things like processed sugars and obesity and any foods deteriorating inflammation in the body could actually affect the anti-Mullerian hormone as well.

Answer from: Dimitris Papanikolaou, MD

Gynaecologist, Founder and Clinical Director at Life Clinic Athens
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Basically I believe that in order to have successful treatment and successful embryo transfer, the body has to be as balanced as possible. So for example the low inflammation diet is very important. Most of the women who were born with sensitive and irritable immune systems present signs of IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome -either they have problems with lactose, gluten intolerance and anything like this, either they have problems with other parts of the bowel: diarrhea. What do these things mean? It means that the immune system when for example you put food that irritates your immune system, for example lactose – when you drink milk and you feel bloated, this is a bad reaction to milk, it means that the immune system has an extra reason to be agitated. By reducing the causes of irritation of the immune system, then we have a milder general immune system and more probable to react well to future pregnancy.

Answer from: Melanie Brown, MSc

Dietician / nutritionist, Nutritional Therapist, Specialist in Fertility, IVF and Pregnancy
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Well nutrition affects all the cells in our body so, it affects our cancer risk, our heart disease risk – all sorts of things. Our health generally is really affected by what we feed ourselves on, so we cannot then just assume that our eggs and our sperm are sort of independent of the rest of the cells of our body and not going to be affected by the food and nutrients that we eat. We know that certain nutrients are very important for fertility and obviously for pregnancy and male fertility -there’s been lots of research on nutrients that are specifically good for sperm, so yes I mean all macro big big nutrients, macronutrients and micronutrients vitamins and minerals affect the quality of our sperm in our eggs and also our hormones. Everything is affected by our diet. Fertility is definitely affected by diet.

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