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How Autoimmune Disease Affects Fertility
There are many medical conditions that belong to a group of disorders known as autoimmune diseases. The immune system that is designed to protect a person against disease becomes misdirected and attacks itself. These disorders can impact every system in the body, including the reproductive system. Women are disproportionately impacted by autoimmune disease accounting for nearly three quarters of those suffering from these disorders.
How To Prepare For A Winter Storm During Fertility Treatment
Effective and personalize fertility treatment is centered around the timing of a woman’s cycle. In order to get the timing right, monitoring is needed throughout the cycle. What happens when a woman is in the middle of a cycle and a winter storm hits? The New Hope Fertility Center fertility experts have all-encompassing strategies in place to address unexpected circumstances such as winter storms.Read more: How To Prepare For A Winter Storm During Fertility Treatment
How Winter Weather Can Increase Your Chances of Conception
It is common knowledge that a man should avoid heat around his testicles while trying to conceive. Ideally, a man’s testicles should be kept several degrees cooler than the rest of his body. This is because the testicles need to be at a slightly lower temperature than the rest of the body to be at optimal reproductive performance. Being overheated can impact sperm production and make it more difficult for a man to impregnate a woman. Cold weather can actually increase a man’s sperm count and enhance your chances of conception.Read more: How Winter Weather Can Increase Your Chances of Conception
Unhealthy Holiday Foods You Should Avoid
The holiday season is a time for spending time with family and eating traditional food. While the holidays are a great time for bonding while eating, you should take care to ensure that your holiday celebrations don’t sabotage your diet. This doesn’t mean you have to abstain from enjoying delicious holiday meals.Read more: Unhealthy Holiday Foods You Should Avoid
Is Mini-IVF the next breakthrough in fertility treatments?
Life certainly is full of coincidences! I was just having a discussion with a colleague of my regarding a new, prestigious study that came out comparing MINI-IVF™ and Conventional IVF Techniques. Our discussion was centered around SART’s inclusion of MINI-IVF™ as a mainstream, reportable technique. This is great news, and FOX picked the story up too, so you can read along here.
Read more: Is Mini-IVF the next breakthrough in fertility treatments?
How Many Embryos Get Transferred During an IVF Cycle?
Fertility treatment is filled with a number of decisions. Decisions about protocols during IVF are crucial. Specifically, decisions about medication dosage and the number of embryos transferred are of utmost priority.This is something that many patients struggle with. There is a widely held belief that transferring multiple eggs results in a higher chance of becoming pregnant.
Read more: How Many Embryos Get Transferred During an IVF Cycle?
Should Women Be Freezing Their Ovarian Tissue?
Today, it’s common for women to delay having children until they’re older. This happens for a variety of reasons – from health concerns to wanting to pursue personal goals before starting a family. Regardless of the reason, it is a smart idea to consider fertility preservation including ovarian tissue freezing. While it is socially acceptable to start a family later in life, biologically, women are best equipped to do so before age 35.
Will Using Electronics Lower Your Sperm Count?
Personal electronic devices such as laptops, tablets, and e-readers are becoming a growing part of everyday life. People have information available at their fingertips, never realizing that their electronics may be negatively impacting their fertility. Men, in particular, should be careful when using electronic devices.
Can You Maintain Fertility While Be Treated For Leukemia?
Receiving a leukemia diagnosis is one of the most trying things an individual can experience. Treatment for leukemia often involves chemotherapy and radiation. While both of these treatment methods are effective, they also have the potential to substantially reduce or even eliminate the chance of a woman starting a family in the future.
Read more: Can You Maintain Fertility While Be Treated For Leukemia?
What is mDNA and Egg Augmentation?
The field of fertility medicine is ever evolving. Every day, researchers and physicians work to identify new ways of improving fertility treatment in order to help couples achieve their dream of starting a family. Egg augmentation is one of the newest ways of improving the success of fertility treatment for a group of women who have long been the hardest to treat.
