Sport leads to female infertility

Professional sport can put an end to the dream of a woman to become a mother, as the scientists warn. Therefore, athletes need to pre-freeze yaytseletki, before it is too late.

In his 20s, Sarah Joyce considered herself completely healthy girl. Its reproductive capacity, in theory, were at the peak, and the body is strong and trained, because Sarah is professionally engaged in long-distance running. But when she tried to get pregnant, the perfect body summed mistress.

Girl runs at 150 km per week, the body which was not a single gram of excess fat, spent two years in a vain attempt to conceive a child. And only appeal to the Centre for Reproductive Health Genesis Fertility and Reproduction in New York, it had the desired effect. There's a girl diagnosed hypothalamic amenorrhea . Sarah disappeared month since her body is no longer producing estrogen for the production of eggs.

Female fertility specialists warn that professional sport with its extreme loads many times increases the risk of women to remain fruitless. Dr. David Hoffman of the Florida Association of Reproductive Medicine stresses that female athletes is much more frequent violations of ovulation and menstruation, which prevent conception.

"Many of them are involved in running and ballet - says Dr. Hoffman - This particular category of women, who because of their profession starve themselves. There are gymnasts who have the body there are no fat. In general, all those who adhere to the extreme loads of sports. "

Doctors recommend these girls advance frozen egg That in the future to increase the chances of motherhood.

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