How To Improve Preconception Health To Maximize Ivf Success

This book features short, practical, evidence-based chapters on a wide range of treatments and strategies to help optimize IVF outcomes.

A practical review of factors affecting male fertility and the treatments and strategies that can optimize IVF outcomes.

Male factor infertility is receiving greater emphasis in IVF programs. This book reviews the scientific evidence for various medical, environmental and lifestyle factors that can affect male fertility, such as chromosome abnormalities, age, anti-sperm antibodies and endocrine disruptors. Part of a four-book series on improving IVF success, this volume subsequently explores a range of treatments and strategies to improve sperm quality, including FSH treatment and antioxidants. It also discusses methods to prevent male infertility from childhood through to adulthood. Concise, practical and evidence-based - and with insights from global experts in the field - this text will enable gynecologists, urologists and andrologists to make evidence-based decisions that can influence the success rate of fertilization in subsequent IVF cycles.

Practical, evidence-based review of all factors that can affect the endometrium and influence implantation success rates.

An easy-to-understand explanation of what a couple need to conceive, and how to deal with problems.

Nourish your eggs and genes—easy recipes for IVF success A healthy diet can play a huge part in reproductive success. IVF Meal Plan offers more than a fertility diet—it shows you how powerful wholesome food can be in enhancing the health of your eggs and genes for conception. IVF Meal Plan features four easy-to-follow 7-day meal plans, developed for women who have undergone IVF or those who have tried other medications with no success. Cook your way to IVF success using 31 tasty, nutrient-rich recipes—each designed to nourish your body, mind, hormones, and long-term health, as well as the overall wellness of your future baby. IVF Meal Plan includes: Happy eggs—Explore how “food as medicine” can aid a healthy IVF cycle and take a deep dive into egg science covering everything from follicle to fertilization. Conception comfort foods—Improve your egg quality with fertility-friendly foods that come with dietary labels, storage tips, and more. Meal maps—Build a strong food foundation using hormone-healthy meal plans, complete with helpful shopping lists and easy time-saving tips. Boost your IVF odds (deliciously) and choose the right foods for your own successful path to parenthood.

This book provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults. The continuum of life begins with the health and wellness of parents prior to conception, followed by embryonic and fetal development, and continues throughout life. Each person’s life stages prepare them for the next and determine their health outcome and wellbeing over time. The text highlights the importance of promoting health throughout the lifespan, the influence of intergenerational health, and the concept of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in epigenetic processes and embryology. Authors underscore the importance of advancing health equity and lift up some of the ethical considerations in this work. The authors explore specific interventions in four major categories: Lifestyle, Infections, Nutrition, and Contraception / Pregnancy Planning (LINC). Preconception care is defined by the World Health Organization as the provision of biomedical, behavioural and social health interventions to women and couples before conception. Preconception care includes evidence-based interventions to improve health status, to reduce behaviours, individual and environmental factors that contribute to poor health outcomes. This book offers readers evidence-based guidance regarding fertility awareness and sperm health, genetic counselling and lifestyle assessments, as well as mental wellbeing, alcohol, tobacco and pharmacotherapy, and specialist care for those with chronic conditions, including a review of medications. It also covers relevant infections, including HIV and the Zika virus, as well as different types of environmental and occupational exposure. The book employs a framework focusing on health promotion, the social determinants of health, and the science behind preconception care. Strategies for improving preconception and interconception health, including examples from around the globe, are described in detail.

The first fertility-boosting guide to feature the cutting-edge research results on fertility from the Nurses’ Health Study More than 6 million women in the United States alone experience infertility problems User-friendly, medically approved advice clearly explained in 10 nutritional guidelines from two of Harvard Medical School’s top voices in nutrition