Enhance your fertility with these super foods

If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to conceive this year, Shantah Fertility Centre can help. All of us fought the 2020 corona virus battle very hard. This virus has taken a toll on everyone’s health be it mental or physical. By improving one's fertility health includes this long list of factors, adopting a diet rich in whole foods is a place to start, more specifically, fruits and vegetables. Research has proven that if you are trying to conceive then it is very important for a woman to maintain a healthy lifestyle and being physically fit is of utmost importance as it helps in regaining stamina and rejuvenating the energy level. 

While we all know that diet and exercise help keep our bodies healthy, and healthy bodies are essential for achieving pregnancy, did you know that there are some foods that could help boost your fertility? Add some (or all) of these to your diet this year to potentially improve your changes. Below is a list of super foods that could boost your fertility:  

• Protein based foods: Try and increase the consumption of plant-based protein sources such as beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, and tofu, it may

Is Lack of Sleep disrupting your fertility?

According to the findings done by Philips annual global survey, lack of sleep is something over 30 percent of Indians find it difficult to initiate and maintain sleep and it only gets worse for patients dealing with the stress of undergoing fertility treatments. There is a certain age group whose sleep hours are often given over to late nights at work, binge watching on TV and smartphones. But for couples trying to get pregnant, a lack of sleep could be sabotaging their efforts. For instance Harish Atthotra, a Gurugram based professional; he didn’t smoke, was not overweight and did not suffer from diabetes. He walked every day, and even ran a half-marathon. But he slept late usually at 1 am, or even later. After coming from office he usually spends time watching Netflix’s latest or his favorite match series. He and his wife Dimple (31) are trying from long for a baby but couldn’t get successful. His wife’s forceful behavior and uneasiness in conceiving forced him to seek medical help one January morning at our Vasant Vihar centre to which we find out that there is a significant disruption of hormones which makes it difficult for him to make his wife pregnant. Your health, mood,hormones, and fertility are all affected by how much, and how well, you sleep. 

Sleep Deprivation is a Fertility Killer

Not getting enough sleep doesn’t just influence your mood and productivity; it also influences the hormones a woman secretes throughout her cycle. Studies have shown that getting enough quality sleep has a positive effect on the reproductive hormones a woman produces, including progesterone, estrogen, Leptin, and Follicle-Stimulating Hormones (FSH).

Getting enough quality sleep is even more important for women hoping to achieve a pregnancy using IVF. According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s study, women with low quality sleep had