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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Therapy can restore womens fertility

Be the egg... imagine the egg being released.. yes thats the way! That will be 250$ please.
(although I guess its cheaper than fertility medications and doctors appointments).
Fertility can be restored in some women by the use of behavioural therapy, thus avoiding recourse to expensive medicines and complex procedures, a scientist told the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Prague, Czech Republic on Tuesday 20 June 2006. Professor Sarah L. Berga, from the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, said that her work was the first to show that reducing stress through psychological intervention could restore ovulation in women whose ovarian function had previously been impaired.

"Contrary to what had previously been believed", she said, "we found that multiple small stressors that seemingly would have minimal impact on reproductive competence can play a major role in causing anovulation. Up till now it was thought that failure to ovulate was usually caused by the energy deficits induced by excessive exercise and/or undernutrition, but we asked why women undertake such behaviours. Often dieting and exercise are a way of coping with psychosocial stress, and our previous work had shown that such stress is often increased in women who do not ovulate."

posted by Steve at 6/20/2006 08:46:00 AM  

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