A new study, presented at the 58th Annual European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology Meeting, shows that baby girls born to women who smoked during pregnancy exhibit signs of increased testosterone exposure, which might affect their future reproductive function.
Cigarette smoking during pregnancy has already be linked to multiple adverse outcomes, including premature birth. The toxins found in cigarettes are also …
A new study, published in The FASEB Journal, suggests that fetuses who are exposed to low levels of oxygen during development may have advanced ovarian aging and a lower number of eggs available for future reproduction.
To examine the effects of low oxygen levels on developing fetuses, researchers from the Metabolic Research Laboratories at the University of Cambridge exposed …
A new year often gets people in the mood to make changes in their lives to improve their health, reduce stress, and find better balance in their lives. The new year provides hope and a fresh start to reaching these goals. Common new year’s resolutions like “eating better”, “exercising more”, and “losing weight”, may not only help a person improve …
Now this is shocking: A survey of more than 2,000 couples seen at U.S. fertility clinics showed that three-fourths of the men had not undergone a fertility workup, even though male infertility contributes to half of all infertility cases. In the subgroup of 1,537 couples without a workup of the male partner, 17% had a history of assisted reproduction procedures, …
Lifestyle issues matter, at least when trying to conceive.
Couples who are both obese may have a harder time conceiving a child than couples who are both at a healthy weight, a team at the National Institutes of Health found. And obese couples struggle more with fertility than couples where only one person is obese.
Women who are too fat …
Lifestyle issues such as smoking, weight issues on both ends of the spectrum, excessive alcohol consumption and excessive exercise can have an impact on menstrual function and fertility.
Now a study from the University of Utah have achieved an important success in treating obese infertile couples.
Obesity in both men and women can have an adverse effect on fertility. Both …
I really shouldn’t have to post anything about the dangers of smoking. But this is about smoking that may be more difficult to control yourself-secondhand smoke.
Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke is tied to infertility in women and early menopause, according to a new study. Compared to women who never smoked and those exposed to the least secondhand smoke, …
As reported in the New York Times, male fertility is more sensitive to environmental toxins than female fertility.
To study the impact of everyday chemicals on fertility, federal researchers recently spent four years tracking 501 couples as they tried to have children. One of the findings stood out: while both men and women were exposed to known toxic chemicals, …
We all know that there are a lot of harmful effects from smoking. But in a new report releaed January 17th, the surgeon general reports that smoking causes erectile dysfunction and harms pregnant women and their fetuses by causing birth defects called cleft lips and palates and by causing ectopic pregnancy.
“Amazingly, smoking is even worse than we knew,” says …
We have counseled our patients that lifestyle issues impact both men and women's reproductive capacity. An article in the September 2010 issue of Ferfility & Sterility defines the impact on semen parameters more clearly.
Thirteen socio-psycho-behavioral factors in 57 cross-sectional studies with 29,914 participants from 26 countries/regions were involved in this review. Six factors (age, body mass index [BMI], psychological …
