| There are many reasons for infertility and impaired | | | | conception. Both can cause female hormone |
| fertility among women. PCOS, diabetic complications, | | | | production to slow or stop, and can provoke high |
| high blood pressure, and other medical factors are | | | | levels of male androgens which may overbalance the |
| considered to be high ranking causes for infertility. | | | | female hormones. This alone can establish a |
| Therapy for many of these disorders often include | | | | fundamental obstruction to pregnancy. Again exercise |
| lifestyle management including control of diet and | | | | and conception are linked - a healthy exercise |
| exercise, as well as addressing issues of alcohol | | | | program helps control appetite, balance insulin |
| consumption, smoking and other forms of | | | | production, and contributes to an adequate level of |
| environmental chemical exposure. | | | | hormonal fitness. |
| Understanding the reasons for lifestyle management | | | | Thus infertility therapies often begin with the basics |
| can increase the ability of patients to conform to | | | | of health. Diet, exercise management, attention to |
| these therapies. Knowing that exercise and | | | | blood pressure and insulin resistance, lack of alcohol |
| conception can be directly related, or that both | | | | intake and smoking, none of which appear directly |
| fertility and the ability to carry a child to term are | | | | related to the reasons for infertility, are all core |
| affected by alcohol can make it easier for a patient | | | | concerns for the professional providing care and |
| to cooperate with treatments that otherwise might | | | | treatment. Along with the arsenal of in vitro |
| seem atypical, extremely challenging and a little off | | | | fertilization, egg harvesting, fertility drugs, and more, |
| the point. | | | | these basic health care approaches provide |
| For many patients the reasons for infertility appear | | | | fundamental ways of helping women and their |
| unclear. Without understanding the role that exercise | | | | partners conceive and produce healthy offspring. |
| plays in the body's hormone regulation, or | | | | By understanding the underlying reasons for infertility |
| understanding the role hormone regulation plays in the | | | | these particular lifestyle changes begin to make more |
| production of a fertile egg, the advice given by | | | | sense. Good health and good personal care are not |
| fertility professionals can appear vague or | | | | always the ultimate solution to problems of infertility. |
| superstitious. This insecurity alone can increase the | | | | However, they absolutely create the best health |
| stress faced by couples and individuals attempting to | | | | environment in which all other future treatments |
| conform to medical instruction. | | | | should occur. When health and exercise are |
| Exercise and conception are linked through the subtle | | | | addressed first, the way is prepared for optimal |
| mechanisms of hormone control and overall wellbeing. | | | | success in overall treatment of infertility and for |
| A woman's body is unprepared to establish a stable | | | | fertility management. |
| pregnancy when in poor condition, and is further | | | | When a patient is in glowing good heath, well |
| forced into an overall lack of preparedness for | | | | nourished and well exercised, her body at its own |
| pregnancy by the very problems associated with lack | | | | peak of potential, she is also at her prime level of |
| of exercise. The issues can become a decaying spiral | | | | natural fertility. Other issues may need to be |
| of interrelated problems, each providing a roadblock | | | | addressed - there remain very real challenges to |
| to fertility. | | | | pregnancy not included in basic wellbeing. But by |
| Being overweight or underweight, both of which alter | | | | ensuring basic wellbeing all other issues become |
| the body's response to insulin, and which shift | | | | simpler and more likely to respond to therapy. |
| hormone production, are vital aspects of successful | | | | |