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    What effect does diet and lifestyle have on fertility?

    • A well balanced nutritional diet 3-4 months prior to conception maximises the chance of conception and live birth. This is true for both natural conception as well as IVF & ICSI.
    • Folic acid taken daily reduces neural tube defects;
    • Reducing stress improves ovulation and the chance of spontaneous conception;
    • High caffeine intake decreases fertility;
    • Smoking
      • increases the incidence of infertility 3 times;
      • reduces the response to fertility drugs;
      • increases the risk of ectopic pregnancy;
      • increases the miscarriage rate;
      • increases fetal abnormalities.

    [Fertility and Sterility (2004), 81(2): 384]

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