Obese men often have low sperm counts. Try to keep your body mass index BMI between 19 and 25 to maximize fertility. A healthy diet that is high in lean proteins, colorful vegetables and fruits and plenty of water is the ideal.
Try to minimize fatty meats, processed foods and sugars. The more you can focus on pesticide-, herbicide-, and hormone-free foods and dairy products the better as each of these have been associated with compromised fertility. Men with low sperm motility slow sperm often benefit from a supplement called L-carnitine mg per day. Both Vitamin E and zinc are powerful antioxidants. Search them online and look for foods that are high in these nutrients and other antioxidants so you can incorporate them into your diet.
There is also a correlation between low Vitamin D levels and female infertility. Women who live in areas with less annual sun exposure, like the Pacific Northwest, are more apt to have low Vitamin D levels. Note : Always check with a doctor before adding any new vitamin or mineral supplement to your routine, especially if you are taking any prescription medicine.
Regular exercise is good for the body and the soul. It will help you achieve and maintain your target BMI and it also helps to stave off heart disease, diabetes and other health conditions known to have adverse effects on fertility.
Exercise is also a good stress reliever. Again, keep in mind that too much exercise can be a bad thing. If you are a female athlete or have a more extreme workout regimen, it might be time to tone the exercise routine down a bit and get your body back in balance. There is no doubt anymore that stress and infertility are related. Just as starvation — a form of physical stress — can cause irregular or absent cycles, emotional and psychological stress can have a similar effect.
The hard thing is that these latter forms of stress are more difficult to quantify and measure. It is created in response to rising estrogen levels before ovulation. Many women feel naturally more easily aroused and interested in sex increased libido around this time. Around 36 hours before you ovulate, you will have a luteinizing hormone or LH surge release from your pituitary gland. Actually what you are testing for is not ovulation per se — but a hormonal change that directly precedes ovulation.
If you are having a regular menstrual cycle, where your period predictably comes at the same time every month — then you are definitely ovulating. The hormonal changes involved before and after ovulation are what results in your experiencing a predictable, regular menstrual cycle. If your period interval is variable, you could still be ovulating sometimes. This is the case for many women who have milder forms of PCOS polycystic ovarian syndrome.
The challenge for women with this issue is two fold:. If this is your situation — my advice is to immediately seek specialist help. If this is your only problem, for a doctor with the right training FRANZCOG and CREI helping you to get pregnant will be easy — either by natural cycle tracking using ultrasound to help you get the timing right or by ovulation induction to regulate your ovulation — giving you the normal number of opportunities to conceive over time.
It is highly unlikely that a woman and her partner with only this problem will need IVF. There are lots of possible causes for irregular ovulation — or a total lack of ovulation in some instances.
Getting your diagnosis right is the key to helping you conceive. The first day of your period is the first day of your cycle. The last day of your cycle is the day before the first day of your next period. The number of days that pass between day one and day one is the length of your cycle.
Menstrual cycles can range on average between 24 and 35 days in length. If your cycle starts on January 1 and your next cycle starts on January 29 then the length of your cycle is 28 days.
The length of you period is not the same thing as the length of your cycle. Ovulation occurs mid-way through the cycle, 12 to 16 days before the first day of the next cycle not necessarily after the 1st day of your cycle. A rise in LH levels in the blood can predict when the follicle sac where the egg ripens is ripe and ready for ovulation.
Because LH is released in pulses or short bursts, the LH surge is not always found by a single blood or urine test. Increased progesterone levels in the blood a week before the menstrual period usually indicates ovulation has occurred but cannot predict when it will occur. For women with irregular periods, urine testing should be timed according to the earliest and latest possible dates one is expected to ovulate.
Urine testing for LH surge should begin at least 2 days before the expected day of ovulation and continue until the LH surge or through day Once an LH surge is documented, it is no longer necessary to continue testing during that cycle. Occasionally, ovulation may not occur in a cycle despite an LH surge. If ovulation is not detected in 2 or more cycles in a row, there may be a problem with ovulation and you should discuss this with your healthcare provider.
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