Daily Coffee Intake Can Effect Fertility

By Kai Colvin - Senior Medical Research Editor | August 17th, 2012

Infertility treatment utilizing cutting-edge infertility drugs and advanced procedures gives many women the chance to have a baby.

Difficulties with ovulation, fallopian tube blockage, Endometriosis, fibroids, and age…are all significant factors that adversely affect women’s fertility.

The most recent influence—coffee.

Women who drink five or more cups of coffee a day rigorously lessen their chance of success from IVF treatment.

Danish researchers recently studied 4000 IVF and ICSI patients to evaluate the clinical pregnancy rate and live birth rate of the women who consumed five or more cups of coffee a day.

The results—an astonishing consequence thought to be as equivalent to the damaging effects of smoking.

The study conducted by the ESHRE and lead researcher Dr. Ulrik Schioler Kesmodel from the Fertility Clinic of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark gathered evidence at the beginning of treatment and at the beginning of every succeeding cycle. The statistical investigation measured for perplexing variables as age, smoking habits and alcohol consumption, cause of infertility, body mass index, ovarian stimulation, and number of embryos retrieved.

The breakdown concluded the risk of pregnancy was reduced by 50 percent in those women who stated they had consumed five or more cups of coffee per day at the start of treatment, while the chance of live birth was reduced by 40 percent.

Not one influence was pragmatic in patients who conveyed a coffee consumption of less than five cups.

"Although we were not surprised that coffee consumption appears to affect pregnancy rates in IVF, we were surprised at the magnitude of the effect," said Dr. Kesmodel.

Caffeine—Helpful or Harmful?

While the overall indication on whether caffeine can affect fertility is mixed, the realities of caffeine are outward.

Caffeine should be limited, exclusively if you're having trouble conceiving, or while undergoing IVF treatment as caffeine compresses blood vessels, ultimately resulting in reduced blood flow to the uterus and prevents eggs from attaching to the uterine wall.

Giving It Up

Fertility treatments attempt to eliminate barriers to pregnancy. In doing so, they reinstate fertility chances and give infertile couples a glimpse of hope and confidence. The study clearly indicates the correlation between substantial amounts of coffee and odds of IVF success, not the premier cause for IVF failure.

Of all the depravities women have, is coffee drinking really a niche to worry about? Is it really necessary to give it up if you are trying to conceive?

If think you might have an issue with infertility, the best thing to do is to seek the counsel of an infertility specialist who can diagnose female infertility concerns, as well as causes of male infertility.

To learn more about fertility, find a fertility specialist in your area.