Boosting Fertility The Natural Way

Healthy eating patterns along with active lifestyle can help both men and women overcome infertility issues, here's how

Infertility is a serious health problem, affecting 8% to 10% of couples worldwide. This percentage translates to 60 to 80 million couples across the world SUBHASREE RAY suffering from infertility every year and around 20 million or 25% live in India.

Before we deep dive into understanding the best nutrition to support fertility, we should understand that complicated issues related to infertility such as physiological malfunction cannot be addressed by nutritional intervention and need medical attention. That said, eating a nutritious diet is one among many other natural ways to boost fertility in both men and women.

The influence of healthy eating is crucial to overall wellbeing and not just the reproductive system.

First step is to watch your body weight Overweight or obesity reduces the chance of fertility for a couple. Excess body weight and fertility is linked in numerous ways. A 2016 review explained the connection beexcess aper tween bress body weight and leptin hormone regulation. According to the study, overweight and/or obese women have higher levels of leptin circulating in their blood that may affect the hormonal balance and lead to disrupted fertility.

Being overweight or obesity increases the risk of an irregular menstrual cycle which further reduces fertility.

One study found 66.4% of women who were living with obesity conceived within a year compared to 81.4% of women of normal weight.

The probability of spontaneous pregnancy was found to be reduced in women with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 29 kg/m² in a 2008 study.

The study also mentioned women with a high BMI had a 4% lower pregnancy rate per kg/m2 increase.