Just relax and you’ll get pregnant… I’m sure you’ve heard this very “insightful” advice before, am I right? Women hear this all the time, and guys must encounter it from time to time too. A recent study set out to investigate if stress had any impact on sperm quality. Researchers recruited 423 men, both fertile […]
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Pineapples and the Trying To Conceive go hand in hand. It has become the (unofficial) symbol of our community. But let’s set aside the symbolism of the pineapple and look at the fruit itself. Pineapples contain loads of vitamins and minerals, and when it comes to fertility, it’s all about an enzyme called bromelain. Does
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Yum… fish, olive oil, nuts, beans…that pretty much sums of some of my favorite things to eat and it’s part of what experts call a “Mediterranean diet“. Oh and let’s add garlic to that list too! A really interesting study was just released which looked at how these “Mediterranean diet” foods may impact embryo quality.
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Olive oil is a bad idea Did you know that olive oil is one of the worst lubricants to use when you’re trying to get pregnant? I’m sure it does a good job “lubricating” but it’s pretty terrible if you’re trying to get your guys’ swimmers up the Fallopian tubes! That’s because olive oil negatively
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What do Charlie Chaplin, Robert De Niro and Pablo Picasso have in common? It sounds like the first line of a bad joke… but the answer is that they were all pretty old when they became fathers! We all know about the biological clock that women have. Fertility declines as we age and once
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Coffee! It’s what a lot of us use to get going in the morning (and afternoon, sometimes evening!). One of the best parts about coffee is that it contains caffeine. But have you ever wondered whether all that caffeine has any impact on your chances of getting pregnant? If you said no, okay well,
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You may be thinking… hmm, another weight and infertility post. But this time, the focus isn’t on your CURRENT weight but on how much you weighed when you were born 😄 … or even more importantly, what your husband/male partner/boyfriend’s weight was when he was born! With about 50% of infertility cases due
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For National Infertility Awareness Week (annually in late April!), I wanted to highlight a study that should give everybody struggling with infertility some hope. Hope is perhaps the one thing that is both easy to lose and so extremely important to have. Researchers from New Zealand followed couples who were referred to a fertility clinic.
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How Salmon May Help Your Fertility If you ask me, salmon has got to be one of the tastiest pieces of fish. Baked fresh in the oven with a bit of salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Yummmm. But salmon has a LOT more going for it than just being tasty? It is an AMAZING
A recently published study shows Vitamin D may actually help to increase the odds of getting pregnant. Vitamin D and… Margarine?! Researchers in Denmark looked at a very large group of women who had trouble getting pregnant. They found that during a period of time where margarine (yes, margarine!) was supplemented with Vitamin D (which
