Improve your conceiving chances by adding these healthy boosters to your daily diet!
As opposed to unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy planning with your partner is supposedly exciting. However, some couples get all tensed for they worry the conceiving process might not go smoothly. Before deciding on expensive pregnancy programs, you could try incorporating nature’s gifts to your daily diets – for they are scientifically proven to boost fertility.
1. Whole Grains
When you take good care of the level of body insulin, you are also taking care of your fertility. While carbohydrate could easily mess up your insulin level, whole grains do just the total opposite. Change your white rice into brown rice and your white bread into the wholemeal one.
2. Full-fat dairy products
As women, we are so used to pick low-fat milk and 0% yoghurt while going grocery shopping. But for those who aspire to increase fertility, you should now pick up full cream milk and milky yoghurt instead. A Harvard research shows women who go full-fat instead of low-fat experience fewer fertility problems than those otherwise. These products contain calcium that boosts fertility. However, don’t go overboard – stick to one serving a day.
3. The alternative protein sources
Cut down a bit of red meat and chicken from your normal diet, and replace the protein with vegetables like dried beans and nuts. Research shows that if 5% of our total calorie intake comes from protein-filled vegetables, infertility is dropped by 50%.
3. Multivitamins
Women who regularly consume folic acid in iron supplements or multivitamins are shown to have significantly less ovulation-related fertility problems.
4. Orange-coloured fruits and vegetables
This colour means beta carotene in fruits. Find it in orange, peach, apricot, and of course carrot. The body converts beta carotene into vitamin A which is very important to produce female sex hormones.
5. Oily fish
Oily fish like salmon and and anchovies contain the Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) which many women are lacking of. This ‘good’ oil contains omega-3 fatty acids that are important for ovulation. However, cut down on raw fish for the potential mercury in it might disturb your upcoming pregnancy.
Things to remember:
1. Eat properly, not too little nor too much
“Your ovaries and your fat cells regulate estrogen, which affects ovulation. If you’re too thin, you may not be producing enough estrogen, and if you’re overweight or obese, you may be producing too much,” says Maria Biasucci-Vianna, MS, RD, CDN, a New Rochelle, NY.
2. Two makes a team
Fertility is not only a woman’s problem but man’s too. Increase his sperm quality with regular intake of vitamin C, E, zinc, and folic acid.
3. Water over caffeine
Keep yourself hydrated throughout the day and cut on caffeine intake for it might interrupt conception. Coffee, tea, and soft drinks are to be avoided during conception period.
More than the stress, pregnancy planning means indulging too
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