Improving Your Egg Quality Can Increase Your Chances of Conceiving - CFMC
by Coastal Fertility Medical Center Coastal Fertility Medical CenterAlthough there are presently no clinically proven
ways to enhance egg quality once it’s started going down, scientists are
exploring how an individual’s lifestyle choices can significantly impact
reproductive health. Eventhough there are no conclusive findings yet regarding
the type of exercise or diet that’s ideal for egg quality, good self-care and
common sense can help ensure that your body functions at its optimum potential
for your health. There is more to you than your eggs. You need to be healthy
for yourself so that your pregnancy will go as smoothly as possible.
When trying to get pregnant, it is good to start
making decisions “as though” you have already conceived. Eat a balanced diet
with a lot of protein and stay away from foods known to contain a high level of
toxins. Also, cut out alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, and give yourself some
time for regular, mild exercise.
Try
and go for an “egg checkup.”
At birth, a woman’s ovaries already contain all the
eggs she will ever have in her lifetime. As the years go by, these eggs will
start reducing in numbers, and egg quality will also begin to decline, mostly
in her early 30s. This decline speeds up
through her late 30s and early 40s and goes on until she gets to the end of her
reproductive years.
It is important to monitor your egg quality and
quantity early and regularly. Waiting till you are already experiencing
problems can mean losing valuable time. Visiting a fertility clinic for
check-ups and tests is a relatively low-commitment and low-cost way to be
certain about your fertility at any point in time. Plus, it can help you to
make choices as you proceed. Are you going to require assisted reproductive
technologies to conceive? Is it the right time to go for Egg Freezing?
Your fertility expert can help you answer these
questions with a few simple tests:
· Antral Follicle Count.Antral follicles are small follicles around the ovaries that can only be seen and counted using an ultrasound. A doctor can predict the number of primordial follicles (microscopic sacs containing oocytes) a woman has by counting the visible antra follicles. The higher the number of follicles, the higher the ovarian reserve.
· Day 3 FSH (blood test). FHS, short for follicle-stimulating hormone, is one of the key hormones in ovulation. It is synthesized in the anterior pituitary gland and helps stimulatetheovarian follicles to mature and set free eggs during ovulation.
· Day 3 FSH (blood test). FHS, short for follicle-stimulating hormone, is one of the key hormones in ovulation. It is synthesized in the anterior pituitary gland and helps stimulatetheovarian follicles to mature and set free eggs during ovulation.
Fertility doctors will be able to determine how hard your body is working to ensure that ovulation takes place when FSH levels are measured early in the menstrual cycle. The body won’t stop producing FSH until you ovulate. Your pituitary gland will not receive the message to cease production if you don’t ovulate at all, raising the levels of FSH in the body. That is, high FSH levels often indicate that your ovarian reserve is diminished.
· AMH (blood test). Anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) isproduced by verysmall ovarian follicles that are changing from the tiny primordial state to the stage where they can produce eggs. While AMH level tests do not indicate much about egg quality, it can indicate whether a woman still possesses a big pool of active follicles, which can mean that she has a higher chance of producing more healthy and viable eggs.
Conclusion
Women are not the same, and there’s no way to say
for sure when an individual might start experiencing diminished ovarian
reserve. However, it is rare for a woman to have premature ovarian failure in
her early twenties. A fertile woman might not experience a significant
reduction in her egg pool until her early forties.
Visiting a reproductive endocrinologist for ovarian
reserve tests is the only way to know where you fall on the spectrum. The good
news is that since all these are diagnostic tests, there is a high chance that
they are going to be covered by insurance. Check your egg health to have peace
of mind and know where you stand with egg quality and ovarian reserve when it
is time to conceive.
If you want to learn more about your fertility options, Coastal Fertility, a fertility clinic in Orange County, is here to help! Visit us at www.coastalfertility.com or call us at 949-726-0600 to learn more.
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