Does obesity affect ovulation?

Obesity has adverse effects on everyone and can easily cause people to have negative emotions. It is even more harmful to women physiologically, such as affecting women's conception. Some people even say that obesity affects ovulation and disrupts women's ovulation cycle. Is this really the case? The following article provides a detailed explanation of this and sees whether being too obese affects ovulation.

First of all, excessive obesity can easily cause endocrine disorders and menstrual disorders in women, which means that women’s ovulation is prone to abnormalities. Doctors point out that obese women are more likely to have abnormal ovulation, which not only reduces the number of eggs, but also causes the eggs to mature slowly and are less likely to implant in the endometrium, thus increasing the unfavorable factors for pregnancy.

Secondly, excessive obesity may also cause women's estrogen levels to decrease and their androgen levels to increase, which in itself increases the possibility of infertility; in addition, it is necessary to consider whether this hormone imbalance is polycystic ovary syndrome. Polycystic ovary syndrome is characterized by elevated androgen levels and obesity. This disease often prevents the normal discharge of mature eggs, so the chance of conception is relatively small. Fat people are a high-risk group for this disease.

In addition, excessive obesity is more likely to cause insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, that is, the liver, muscles and other tissues are insensitive to insulin. Therefore, the body goes into self-preservation mode and the pancreas produces more insulin to compensate. However, unlike the liver, the ovaries are abnormally sensitive to insulin. Hyperinsulinemia can stimulate the ovaries to secrete excessive male hormones, thereby affecting ovulation and leading to infertility.

After reading the above introduction, are female friends surprised? I never thought that obesity, which is common to everyone, might have such an impact on women. Obesity reduces the secretion of estrogen, causing abnormal ovulation in women, which in turn increases the problem of pregnancy. Therefore, female friends must pay attention to their own health and not let themselves become too fat.