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Caffeine and Infertility

January 20, 2012 By Whitney Young, ND

The impact that caffeine has on fertility increases into your thirties.  It decreases fertility and increases miscarriages.  The risk of infertility is 55% higher in women who drink just one cup of coffee per day.  100% higher for women drinking 1.5 – 3 cups of coffee per day, and 176% higher in women who drink more than three cups of coffee per day.

(Dulgosz L, Brachs M B 1992 Coffee reduces fertility.  Epidemiologic Reviews 14:83)

So coffee is out.  Tea is still in though. One thing at a time.  I only gave up coffee the two weeks before Christmas.  I do drink about  or 5 black teas each day though.  Better than coffee, not better than no caffeine.

I will gradually switch back to red roobios tea as it is naturally decaffeinated and I quite enjoy it.  At this point in time, I cannot say that I will end up entirely caffeine free.  I can imagine getting down to 1 or 2 cups of tea per day though.  This may just be another one of my ‘can’t-entirely-exclude-it-or-I-will-need-to-have-it’ things though.  What can I say, I like to be bad.  I spend my days worrying about what everyone else thinks of me and what I can do to be liked and loved.  I rebel by abusing my body with bad things.  Twisted.

Kerri

Category iconFertility,  Research

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