If you have been trying to get pregnant for a year or longer and can’t pass a Starbucks, you may be drinking too much coffee which can have an adverse effect on fertility.
Caffeine has been linked with infertility.
Back in 1999, a study of 100 women who drank less than one cup of coffee or its equivalent in caffeine per day were able to conceive 26.9 pregnancies per 100 menstrual cycles. This is opposed to a group of women who drank more than one cup of coffee a day, who conceived 10.5 times per 100 menstrual cycles.
Big difference!
A decade earlier, in1989, 104 women—all in good physical health—who had been attempting to conceive for three months were questioned about their use of beverages containing caffeine.
In subsequent cycles, the women who drank more than one cup of coffee per day or its equivalent in caffeinated beverages were 50% less likely to conceive, as women who drank less coffee or caffeinated beverages.
This indicates that the more coffee a woman drank, or the amount of caffeine consumed, the lower her chances for getting pregnant.
A study of 423 Danish couples in 1992 through 1995, which was conducted through a mailing to 52,255 female trade union members for the purpose of finding women subjects who were 20-35 years old, lived with a partner, had no previous pregnancies, and were planning to discontinue contraception in order to become pregnant.
Compared with the women who drank very little or no coffee, or consumed little or no caffeinated beverages, those women with moderate caffeine consumption had a lower chance of getting pregnant.
The women who had a higher consumption of caffeine had a significantly lower chance of becoming pregnant. This relationship remained true after adjustments were made for weight, alcohol intake, diseases of the female reproductive organs, semen quality, and duration of the menstrual cycle.
This same Danish survey also showed a decrease in male fertility among men who consume more than very limited amounts of coffee or caffeinated beverages.
So, if you are trying to conceive, it seems as though laying off those lattes might be a good move for both you and your partner!
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