{"id":21658,"date":"2016-12-17T05:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:33:53","slug":"how-speed-up-your-fertility-by-eating-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/infertility-blog\/nutrition-advice\/how-speed-up-your-fertility-by-eating-better\/","title":{"rendered":"How to speed up your fertility by eating better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eating a fertility diet in&nbsp;preparation for&nbsp;pregnancy and&nbsp;to boost fertility is one of the most important health changes you can make. Numerous studies have shown that&nbsp;specific changes to the diet can improve fertility, prevent recurrent miscarriage and&nbsp;support a healthy pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Nutrition plays a big role when&nbsp;it comes to having a healthy body and&nbsp;reproductive system. The building blocks of hormones are found in&nbsp;the foods we eat. Antioxidants, which&nbsp;help to protect the egg and&nbsp;sperm from free radicals, are found in&nbsp;the foods that&nbsp;we eat. Just&nbsp;as&nbsp;nutrients in&nbsp;food can be helpful for&nbsp;fertility, there are some foods and&nbsp;chemicals that&nbsp;can be harmful to your health and&nbsp;fertility.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this blog, I will try to give you fertility diet suggestion, based on&nbsp;scientific research, nutritional data, Chinese medicine`s perspective of nutrition and&nbsp;patients personal experience, when&nbsp;changing their diet.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend a diet of the very low content of processed carbohydrates as&nbsp;the main strategy to get a healthy and&nbsp;fertility boosting diet. We see that&nbsp;a diet which&nbsp;primary is based on&nbsp;vegetables, all kinds of fish and&nbsp;seafood, meat, fowl, and&nbsp;eggs. In&nbsp;addition, fat fruits like avocado and&nbsp;olives, nuts and&nbsp;seeds and&nbsp;cold pressed and&nbsp;unrefined oils, like coconut oil and&nbsp;olive oil. When&nbsp;it comes to the dairy products, we recommend natural butter, cheese, cream and&nbsp;full-fat sour cream.<\/p>\n<h2>Why&nbsp;do we recommend this way of eating?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"incut\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ui image\" src=\"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20170117084439852f.jpg\" alt=\"How to speed up your fertility by eating better. Inspirational food\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Many experiences that&nbsp;they get a light feeling in&nbsp;their body, sleep better, get a normal digestion, fresher skin, a more stable mood, and&nbsp;more energy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A low intake of carbohydrates will result in&nbsp;a lower need for&nbsp;insulin. A high level of insulin is connected to the resistance of insulin, overweight and&nbsp;the developing of diabetes type 2. If&nbsp;you eat a low carb diet, this will not occur. Very many women who&nbsp;do many hormonal treatments will tend to get an addiction to sugar and&nbsp;increase weight. When&nbsp;following this diet, the addiction to sugar will dramatically down and&nbsp;the body`s weight will tend to normalize.<\/li>\n<li>For&nbsp;users of insulin (Diabetes type 1 and&nbsp;2) will a diet of few processed carbohydrates make it easier to reach a more stable level of blood sugar and&nbsp;you will need less insulin. This is a very important factor when&nbsp;pregnant, as&nbsp;pregnant women with a high age, tend to develop diabetes (type 1) during their pregnancy. With this way of eating, you will have much more control of the weight increased during the pregnancy and&nbsp;the blood sugar level.<\/li>\n<li>Normal and&nbsp;stable levels of sugar and&nbsp;insulin in&nbsp;the blood and&nbsp;a good balance between omega-3 and&nbsp;omega-6 prevents inflammations in&nbsp;the body. A low carbohydrate intake will, therefore, slow down many of the inflammatory diseases in&nbsp;the body, such as&nbsp;endometriosis and&nbsp;adenomyosis. I will in&nbsp;one of the following blogs, discuss these diseases in&nbsp;more detail.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>PCOS<\/h2>\n<div class=\"incut\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ui image\" src=\"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20170117084439852f.jpg\" alt=\"How to speed up your fertility by eating better. Inspirational food\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"accent2\">About 10% of all women in&nbsp;the Western world have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The diagnose requires that&nbsp;at&nbsp;least to out of three criterions are fulfilled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irregular or&nbsp;seldom menstruation. Symptoms of too much testosterone, which&nbsp;will give increased hair growth on&nbsp;parts of the body where&nbsp;men naturally have hair growth, acne and&nbsp;too high levels of free testosterone or&nbsp;too low level of SHBG in&nbsp;the blood. The ovaries tend to have many cysts, which&nbsp;can be seen on&nbsp;an ultrasound.<\/li>\n<li>Women with PCOS often have a difficulty in&nbsp;getting pregnant, they have a higher risk of miscarriages and&nbsp;a tendency to develop diabetes (type 2) during pregnancy. There are a lot of women with this statement and&nbsp;it`s a grateful task because&nbsp;changing their diet is very efficient. After&nbsp;two or&nbsp;three months with a new diet, they will most often get back their regular period and&nbsp;the other symptoms will disappear.<\/li>\n<li>For&nbsp;women who&nbsp;undergo <a href=\"\/en\/egg-donation\/\">egg donation<\/a>, this way of eating will lower the tendency of miscarriage. This is because&nbsp;it will normalize a women\u2019s weight, stabilize the blood sugar, lower the inflammation processes in&nbsp;the body and&nbsp;give a lot of good nutrients to the body end the growing fetus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good sources of carbohydrates \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the sources of carbohydrates should come from vegetables and&nbsp;beans, lentils. However once&nbsp;daily you can eat a small amount of rice or&nbsp;bread when&nbsp;eaten together with protein. Pasta should be something you almost always avoid or&nbsp;eat very small amount when&nbsp;eating it. Remember drinking vine or&nbsp;any alcohol to your food is adding a lot of carbohydrates to your meal.<\/p>\n<h2>Hidden carbohydrates<\/h2>\n<p>Most low-fat dairy products have very high content of carbohydrates. Most processed food like crackers, cakes pasta and&nbsp;bread have very high content of carbohydrates. Rice and&nbsp;potatoes in&nbsp;natural form are the next best sources of carbohydrates. These two sources are very good for&nbsp;children as&nbsp;they burn a lot more calories than&nbsp;adults, and&nbsp;therefore need more healthy carbohydrates.<\/p>\n<h2>No sugar products<\/h2>\n<p>Diet coke and&nbsp;such items are not giving any calories, however, they tend to lower a person&#8217;s blood sugar which&nbsp;will result in&nbsp;more appetite. If&nbsp;you are having a tendency to low blood sugar you should be careful with such diet products. Also, children under the age of three are advised not to have any intake of such products.<\/p>\n<p>Vibeke Fjeld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating a fertility diet in preparation for pregnancy and to boost fertility is one of the most important health changes you can make. 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