Pregnancy Tips: Fasting Boosts Fertility

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Some couples get pregnant easily while others struggle to conceive. If you have tried several ways to get pregnant but failed, maybe it is time to try something new. Why not fast? Did you know that fasting could boost your fertility? If not, then these facts will probably surprise you.

On Sunday, Christian Omojefe, a medical expert with specialization in General Medicine, made a lecture on the "Medical Benefits of Fasting," Vanguard reported. He revealed that fasting can "promote fertility, enhanced weight loss and boost brain cells and immunity."

So how can fasting contribute in a woman's fertility?

According to Natural Instinct Healing, a thorough cleansing heals and regenerates the body on a cellular level. Fasting efficiently allows toxins to be removed from the cells and rebalanced the hormones. It also aids the liver in metabolizing excess hormones around the body like xenoestrogens found in chemicals, plastics and pesticides that creates an imbalance in the natural estrogen level.

Fasting also decreases inflammation, regenerates every organ, balances blood sugar, boosts the immune system, helps nervous system rests and balances reproductive system as well. Over all it gets your body cleanse, detoxed, healthy and ready for fertility.

For couples who have been trying to conceive through in vitro fertilization (IVF) without success or have been in various forms of synthetic contraception, fasting might help. Fasting pulls out excess or synthetic hormones, cleanses the liver, alkalizes the blood stream and reboots the natural hormonal process of the body.

On the other hand, per New Scientist, two studies suggested that fasting might offset some of the loss of egg quality and quantity that comes with ageing.

In the first study, Jonathan Tilly and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School reduced the calorie intake of adult female mice by 40 percent and found out that only few of their eggs had abnormal chromosomes when they reached 12 months, the advanced reproductive years for mouse, compared to other mice that were allowed to eat as much as they like. The abnormalities in eggs reportedly increase the risk of miscarriage and birth defects.

Moreover, calorie-restricted mice produced more eggs that were likely to develop into embryos upon fertilization. The team also announced that fasting extended the mice's reproductive lifespan and increased the chances of the survival of their offspring after birth.

One possibility for this is that restricting food intake affects the interactions between developing eggs and their supports cells said Evelyn Telfer of the University of Edinburgh, UK. It's also possible that it could alter the activity of germ-line stem cells, which some think could replenish depleted ovaries under the right conditions.

So for couples who wanted to conceive, try fasting. If you know stories about fasting and fertility, share it in the comment section below.