More and more women are infertile, and it turns out that these 10 foods are to blame

Why are more and more women suffering from infertility? Maybe it’s the following ten foods that are causing it.

1. Long-term vegetarianism can reduce female fertility

In recent years, the trend of eating vegetarian food has become increasingly popular. Especially women with plump figures even make eating vegetarian food a habit, hoping to achieve the goal of losing weight. It is undeniable that being a vegetarian does help with weight loss. However, recent medical research on vegetarianism has confirmed that if women eat vegetarian food frequently, it will affect the hormone secretion in the body, and in severe cases it may even lead to infertility.

Among the many studies on the impact of vegetarianism on female fertility, the conclusion of the Maastricht Institute in Munich, Germany is the most eye-catching. Professor Karlbok of the college divided the healthy girls who participated in the experiment into two groups. One group ate a completely vegetarian diet except for a small amount of cheese and milk; the other group ate normal food.

After the six-week weight loss program, researchers found that 78% of the vegetarian women had stopped ovulating, and almost all of the women had shorter menstrual cycles than normal. However, in the group that ate a normal diet, 67% of the women had normal ovulation and no significant changes in their menstrual cycles.

2. High-fat foods may cause infertility

Experts' research on mice shows that high-fat foods can damage eggs in the ovaries and prevent them from becoming healthy embryos. This research result can be used to explain the problem of infertility in obese women.

The experiment found that the infertility of the test mice was mainly caused by a special protein. "This protein determines the response of the ovaries to fat," the researchers said. "Controlling this protein plays an important role in exploring the causes of infertility caused by food."

3. Carrots

Carrots are rich in carotene, multiple vitamins and other nutrients that are beneficial to the human body. Gynecologists at Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey, USA, found that when women eat too many carrots, the large amount of carotene they ingest can cause amenorrhea and inhibit the normal ovulation function of the ovaries. Therefore, women who want to have children should not eat too many carrots.

If you want to have your own baby and if you don’t want to have menstrual abnormalities, then don’t eat carrots all day long like a baby bunny. If you also eat carrots one by one like a baby rabbit, have you ever thought that this may cause your golden ovaries to lose progesterone secretion, leading to amenorrhea (menopause), abnormal menstruation, anovulation, and infertility?

4. Coffee

Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the United States studied 104 women who wanted to get pregnant and concluded that coffee has a direct impact on conception. Among these women, those who drank more than one cup of coffee a day were only half as likely to get pregnant as those who did not drink this beverage. Therefore, they suggest that women should drink less coffee if they are planning to become pregnant.

5. Sunflower seeds

The protein part of sunflower seeds contains testicular inhibition components, which can cause testicular atrophy and affect normal reproductive function. Therefore, young people of childbearing age should not eat too much.

6. Alcohol

Scientific research has shown that the main component of alcohol is ethanol, which can increase the concentration of catecholamines in the body, cause vascular spasms, testicular underdevelopment, and even testicular atrophy. The spermatogenesis function will undergo structural changes, and the secretion of male hormones such as testosterone will be insufficient, resulting in feminine manifestations such as a thinning voice and enlarged breasts. This type of person is prone to male infertility, and even if they do have children, there is a greater possibility that the next generation will be deformed. In women, it may cause irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, mutated egg production, loss of sexual desire or cessation of ovulation.

7. Garlic

Eating too much garlic can weaken a person's vital energy and has a significant effect of killing sperm. If young people of childbearing age eat too much, it will have an adverse effect on fertility, so it is not advisable to eat too much.

8. Roast beef and mutton

Eating roasted beef and mutton is a habit of residents in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places. Some people have found that a few women who love to eat roasted mutton gave birth to children with mental retardation, paralysis or deformity. After investigation and modern medical research, it was found that these women and their deformed babies were all victims of Toxoplasma gondii infection. People can often become infected when they come into contact with toxoplasmosis-infected livestock and poultry and eat undercooked meat from these animals and poultry.

Someone in Hubei Province investigated the infection rates of livestock that mainly supply meat and found that they were: 11.32% for pigs, 34.5% for sheep, 11.8% for chickens, and 9.4% for ducks. If you do not wash your hands after slaughtering livestock and poultry and then eat something else, if you taste the saltiness of dumpling fillings after mixing them, if you grab raw meat and then cooked food, if you do not distinguish between raw and cooked food on cutting boards, if you use knives that mix raw and cooked food together, if you take raw meat from cold storage, sell meat, or grill meat... you may be contaminated by Toxoplasma trophozoites at any time. As for women who love to eat barbecue, they are just one link that is susceptible to toxoplasmosis. Women infected with Toxoplasma gondii may not have any symptoms. When they are pregnant, the infected Toxoplasma gondii can infect the fetus through the uterus and cause fetal malformations. Toxoplasma infection is the main factor causing fetal malformation. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a Toxoplasma antibody test before marriage or pregnancy.

9. Cottonseed oil

Long-term consumption of cottonseed oil can cause people to suffer from sun disease, the symptoms of which include attacks after sun exposure, general weakness or lack of sweat, burning and flushing of the skin, palpitations and shortness of breath, dizziness, numbness of the limbs, and loss of appetite. A more serious effect is damage to the reproductive system. Experimental studies have shown that when rats consume feed containing cottonseed oil for about four months, their testicles are significantly smaller, sperm cells are significantly reduced or even disappear, the uterus is smaller, the endometrium and glands atrophy, the ovaries are slightly atrophied, and the renal parenchymal cells are slightly swollen. If an adult male takes gossypol, an extract of cottonseed oil, for 40 days, 60-70 mg per day, all sperm will be killed in a short period of time and gradually disappear from the semen; for women, it may cause amenorrhea or uterine atrophy. Therefore, young people of childbearing age should not consume it for a long time.

10. Bitter Melon

The vitamin C content of bitter melon ranks first among melon vegetables, and the sugar and fat content are very low, making it more suitable for obese people. However, the method of losing weight by eating a large amount of raw bitter melon is not only unscientific, but also has certain health risks. According to scientists' research, bitter melon does have anti-fertility effects. Bitter melon protein inhibits endometrial differentiation and interferes with embryo implantation in early and mid-pregnancy.

Scientists conducted experiments on mice and found that in the early and mid-pregnancy, bitter melon protein can inhibit the decidualization of the uterus and the proliferation of endometrial and basal cells of pregnant mice through a series of reactions. The main reactions are: blocking the continued hatching of the fertilized egg, reducing the attachment of the blastocyst, reducing the outward growth of the trophoblast cells, and the development of the inner cell mass. But before pregnancy? -Bitter melon protein and? Neither bitter melon protein nor omega-3 protein affected follicle recruitment and maturation.

To put it simply, bitter melon has an impact on people who are pregnant (early and mid-pregnancy). Eating too much may cause miscarriage, but it has little effect on people who are not pregnant. As for men, scientists believe that bitter melon protein will affect the normal development and activity of sperm, but this effect is reversible, which means that fertility will return to normal if you stop eating bitter melon.