Obesity and Infertility Link
Written by Nash Trout on April 27th, 2007 in Lose Weight, Motivation, Sex Enhancement, Exercise, Health News.
Struggling to have your first baby? One of the reason could be obesity of the woman, according to infertily specialist, Laurence A. Jacobs, MD. He had developed a special program for fitness and fertility for those women who are fighting both obesity and infertility.
“In overweight women with excessive adipose tissue, abnormal pituitary hormone secretions are common, leading to a lack of proper ovulation. Obesity is strongly related to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). Overweight woman are also particularly susceptible to Diabetes and Insulin resistance. Even with the use of fertility medications or IVF treatments, pregnancy rates are adversely affected by obesity. Many studies have shown that in obese women, especially those with PCOS, a 5-10% weight loss often results in resumption of ovulation and higher pregnancy rates with all fertility treatments.”
The special program has the right ingredients for success of losing weight: involving in a fitness program, utilizing good nutrition, having a support group and working with a specialist. The program also includes reducing stress, keeping a food diary, and incorporating other holistic methods to lose weight. What is encouraging here is the program’s involvement too of the husbands to encourage their wives and lose weight too.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
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September 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I would agree to this. Not only obesity is linked to many health problems existing up to date, such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, obesity is also link to problems of infertility. Estrogen production is more likely to increase when you’re obese, thus, creating a hormonal imbalance that interferes with ovulation, and lessen the chances of women to become pregnant. Besides alleviating risks of heart ailments, diabetes and such, women who are obese have chances of acquiring cancer in their womb and some irregularities in their menstrual flow.
With the proper information and enrolling in a special program woman can ovulate while losing weight at the same time. Obesity affects everything. A proper diet and exercise are the common and inexpensive ways of preventing this.