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A healthy lifestyle combined with nutrient-rich foods will boost your fertility.
Diet plays an important role if you are trying to conceive.
A long, hard look at your habits is generally required for the women to have a healthy, uncomplicated pregnancy followed by a smooth delivery.
There are ways to boost and prolong women's fertility levels, revealed Dr Dawn Harper, a fertility expert, as quoted by Daily Star Online.
Damaging factors for women's eggs
There are certain lifestyle and diet factors that negatively affect a woman's fertility.
Stress, irregular menstrual cycles, toxins in alcohol, drugs, high or low BMI are among such factors.
A holistic approach is required to improve your chances of conceiving.
How to boost fertility?
A healthy lifestyle with a nutrient-rich diet along with an essential amount of exercise work wonders.
A careful examination of the contents of your food for the following nutrients is a must:
Magnesium and B vitamins: For regulating hormonal activity and cell division
Zinc: To contribute to normal fertility reproduction
Vitamin D: For normal immune function
Vitamin C: To help produce good quality cells
Vitamin E: For prevention of oxidative stress
Folic acid: For maternal tissue growth during pregnancy.
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