6 Health Tips To Improve Your Fertility and Help You Get Pregnant Now or Later

Double board-certified fertility doctor, Natalie Crawford MD talks about health tips for your overall health and to improve your fertility if you are trying to conceive or want to get pregnant. Your period and your fertility can be impacted by the world around you and these tips can help you preserve your fertility and Improve your egg quality-both now and later. If you want to be pregnant now, or someday-then learn about your body and lifestyle so you can optimize your fertility.

Answered in this video:

1. Does smoking cigarettes impact your fertility? How does marijuana impact fertility?

2. How do plastics and environmental toxins impact fertility and egg quality?

3. Protect yourself against STIs. Chlamydia infection can damage your Fallopian tubes. What does a prior chlamydia infection do to your tubes?

4. How does your diet impact fertility? Limit your exposure to red meat and processed meat and refined processed foods as they impact embryo quality and egg quality.

5. Listen to your body and track your cycle. What is a normal cycle? How do you track your cycle? What are wanting signs that something is off? Your period should come at regular predictable intervals, not have spotting between cycles, and not be so painful you stay home or it soaks your clothes.

6. Don’t ignore your age and think about family planning. Consider egg freezing or early fertility testing if you know you are waiting to conceive.

*This is medical education not medical advice, please ask your doctor for your own medical care and medical questions .

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Resources:

Optimizing natural fertility Fertility and Sterility, Volume 90, Issue 5, S1 -S6. Nov 2008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.122