This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
We advise all couples trying to conceive to stop caffeine. Many are relectant to give it up. Now here's more evidence of how important it is.
In a poster presentation, a dose-dependent decrease of the pregnancy rate with IVF was observed according to caffeine intake (33% with none and decreasing to 12% with the equivalent of 2 cups of coffee). Enough said?
Here's more: In a mouse model, ovarian response, fertilization, and blastocyst development were decreased.
This confirms the previous study showing no caffeine is important to IVF outcome.