Diet And Fertility – 4 Foods To Give Your Fertility A Boost
| It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of diet to fertility. Yet it is often ignored by couples struggling with difficulties in conceiving a child. Even worse, it is often given scant regard by the professional advisers who guide so many couples in the direction of expensive IVF treatment or other artificial techniques … |
Diet and fertility are inextricably linked. Whether man or woman, if you are trying for a baby, you need to keep your body in at least a reasonably fit state. Otherwise nature will, in effect, bar you from contributing towards the next generation – from passing your genes on to the future.
The man needs to be capable of producing healthy sperm in sufficient quantities, and the woman needs to be able to produce a healthy egg, and maintain a life-giving and sustaining environment for the fertilised egg for nine months after that.
If you are sustaining yourself with junk foods, or hurried snacks, or if you frequently smoke cigarettes or cannabis, or imbibe regularly with alcohol, then you are abusing your body and making it suffer. You can’t then expect it to produce the energy and the life force necessary to create and sustain another life.
By the same token, even if you don’t abuse your body in this way, but nevertheless eat cheap, substandard foods, or simply an unbalanced diet. then you may still be depriving your body of the extra essential sustenance it needs to be fully fertile.
When I say “fully fertile” I am referring to the emerging truth that fertility and infertility are not two states that you might toggle between like the capitals lock on your keyboard. Rather, as practitioners of Chinese medicine would say, there are only varying degrees of fertility. And, as you are what you eat, your diet has an enormous effect on how fertile you are.
One slight change in your diet could make all the difference between experiencing fertility problems and becoming the parent to a healthy baby. Here are four foods that you must eat in sufficient quantities in order to keep your fertility level high.
1. Any foods containing zinc. Zinc deficiency is a major factor in many cases of infertility. This mineral is vital for helping sperm production in males, and is necessary for the production of healthy eggs in females. Zinc rich foods include spinach, whole grains, legumes, rice and nuts.
2. Dairy foods, such as milk, yoghurt and cheese. These are important for the calcium they contain, but can also contain saturated fats, so take care not to consume too much of these.
3. Green vegetables, especially beans of all kinds, lentils, asparagus and spinach. In fact all leafy green vegetables are very good for fertility.
4. All foods containing folic acid, a part of the vitamin B complex. Sometimes known as vitamin B9, folic acid has been shown to stimulate the development of female sex hormones in women, and to reduce the risk of spina bifida in infants. These foods include leafy vegetables, and fortified cereals and bread.
The above is just a checklist of very important foods if you have a fertility problem. It’s not a diet sheet. If you wish to investigate alternative fertility treatments and foods then check out Chinese medicine and fertility treatments.
But never follow a diet that advocates eating one particular kind of food to the exclusion of nearly everything else, even if that one food is very beneficial. Above all you need a balanced diet, as close to a completely natural diet of healthy, organically grown and produced food as possible.
Take heed of what your body tells you it wants (and doesn’t want) and you will find yourself developing your own healthy, fertility friendly, diet very quickly.
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Philip Gegan
