Multivitamin use associated with improved fertility in women
Posted on 9 April 2008
Here in the UK we are told that, generally speaking, women are electing to have children later and later in life. One obvious potential problem with this is that fertility generally falls off from about their mid 30s. So, by the time a woman decides she wants to have children, there is the risk that she may have difficulty falling pregnant. There seems to be little shortage of awareness about this, and I
Published April 9, 2008 . Filed under: Nutrients and Supplements, Pregnancy and Fertility, Women's Health
Could you tell us what that study was, and talk us through what you think the confounding variables might be in it?
April 9, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
Paddy – I omitted the reference by mistake and have added it now. The main confounding variables, I reckon, are likely to be other behaviours consistent with ‘health consciousness’: supplement takers are more likely, say, to eat better and smoke less.
April 10, 2008 @ 6:55 am
While I do agree that taking multi vitamins can help fertility – I do not see any ref to folic acid.
Women who are trying to become pregnant need to be taking Folic Acid, they also need to be careful that they are not getting TOO much of certain vitamins – Folic Acid being one of them.
December 14, 2008 @ 11:57 pm