How can Nutrition help your Fertility?

Ensuring a healthy egg and healthy sperm is vital to the success of fertilization and implantation ­ this is equally as important for assisted methods such as IVF.

Addressing individual nutritional requirements can optimise the quality of the egg or sperm - by ensuring you are as healthy as possible you will be ensuring the best chance of fertilization.

Sperm takes 116 days to develop while the ova requires 100 days to develop correctly ­ it is therefore wise to follow the pre-conception care plans for at least four months.

Couples involved in assisted conception programmes can also benefit from nutritional advice. To ensure the best possible outcome of IUI, IVF or ICSI you need a really healthy egg and sperm and improved nutrition is able to impact this.

Foresight (the pre-conceptual charity) enrolled 367 couples in a study and found 327 of the 367 couples (89%) had a child after receiving nutrional and lifestyle advice. There were no multiple pregnancies and all babies were born healthy.