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The answer is basically rather than what do you have to avoid is what you have to do. What you have to do is just use common sense. You are going to be in stimulation, and the way your body is going to respond to that stimulation can be different even amongst different cycles. Not just from patient to patient, but also the same patient may have different cycles despite having one month after the other.
The thing is that basically, you must listen to your body and try to avoid those things that your body does not let you do. These are usually things like doing exercise, strong physical effort or deal with risky situations, or for example, having sex after an egg collection.
Other than that, well patients tend to lead a pretty normal life, and you can do even exercise, but with a lower intensity, of course, we recommend avoiding toxins like alcohol and smoking because this may have an impact not directly on the quality of the eggs but probably on the implantation. That’s something that should be avoided, and that’s it. Try to lead a life as healthy as possible.
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There’s not. It’s been very well researched like lifestyle and IVF and lifestyle and fertility. There’s tiny things that might say that look if you totally cut out alcohol or you follow a mediterranean diet – there might be a few percentage points that make a difference but some of those studies have a lot of drawbacks to them. I wouldn’t say there’s any really clear evidence that there’s a lifestyle that you can follow that’s going to massively boost your chances with IVF. One thing’s really important, actually, changing your lifestyle or following a different lifestyle is really difficult and to follow a different lifestyle for a few weeks whilst having fertility treatment is: one – it’s unlikely to have any impact on your treatment, secondly – you’re already going through a lot with IVF treatment and thirdly – if it doesn’t work, is it the lifestyle that caused it to happen is it because you didn’t follow the diet or eat enough pineapple or avocado or whatever it is this this month. Then you don’t want to go back and blame yourself for not following that. While all the advice I give to IVF patients really should apply to all of us in life about eating a balanced diet, making sure you get your five fruit and vegetables a day, about taking gentle exercise or even if you do more vigorous exercise and that’s natural for you – there’s no reason why you can’t carry on running or exercising during IVF or during pregnancy. So really there’s very few things from a lifestyle point of view you can do to optimize things. Then there’s just the common sense things: don’t smoke vaping is probably not a good idea either (there’s not much evidence behind that) and also there’s no safe level known for alcohol in pregnancy, so it’s normally recommended that women should stop drinking certainly when they become pregnant and the same for men as well – limit the amount of alcohol to what sort of the recommendations are (up to 14 units a week) but that is not going to boost your chances of IVF working for you.
