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Too Toxic to Conceive

Is Your Lifestyle to Blame for Your Inability to Conceive?

By Teri Brown

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Tipping the Scale
No look at how toxic lifestyles affect fertility would be complete without taking a hard look at obesity. The impact of our country's obesity problems are just now being understood, and the results may take years to calculate.

When Jennifer Key of Montevallo, Ala., went to her doctor with concerns about her inability to conceive naturally, one of the first things her doctor suggested was to lose weight. "My OB/GYN knew me pretty well and really didn't have to ask too many questions about our lifestyle, but she did tell me to lose some weight," says Key. "I did a little research on my own and found out that overweight women have an overabundant amount of estrogen that causes problems in conception."

Key's research was right on the money. Obesity changes the way hormones behave and often causes unreliable ovulation. "Given the current epidemic of obesity, it is important to note that obesity is the most serious risk factor for primary ovulatory infertility or not releasing an egg each month," says Dr. Sebestyen. "Maintaining a normal body weight will help both women and men to conceive."

Too Toxic to Conceive-Is Your Lifestyle to Blame?

Around the House
Studies are showing that the toxins we don't even think about can be just as dangerous as the more obvious ones. One study reported in Epidemiology, the official journal of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, shows a strong connecton between the use of herbicides and fungicides and infertility. The study indicates that infertile women were almost 27 times more likely to have mixed or applied herbicides than fertile women and 3.3 times more likely to have used fungicides.


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