Increasing work pressure and accelerated lifestyles have led more people to work night shifts. Women planning pregnancy should prioritize daytime work schedules. Additionally, avoid habits that may cause infertility.
4 Bad Habits That Cause Infertility
1. Excessive obesity hinders conception
Obesity disrupts female endocrine function, impedes ovulation, and triggers various health issues like hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. These conditions may cause female infertility and lead to complications during pregnancy. Women with morbid obesity also experience lower success rates in fertility treatments.
2. Extreme dieting can also cause infertility
Drastic weight loss may disrupt endocrine function, irregular menstrual cycles, and halt ovulation. Severe nutritional imbalances and micronutrient deficiencies from extreme dieting further impair fertility. Women over 30, whose fertility naturally declines, should be especially cautious about extreme weight loss.
3. Abortion is the second leading cause of female infertility
Medical studies show a direct correlation between the number of abortions and the risk of infertility. Repeated abortions increase susceptibility to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), where inflammation can block fallopian tubes, leading to infertility.Highly active endometrial fragments during abortion can easily implant in the pelvic cavity, forming endometriosis that causes infertility. Furthermore, repeated abortions thin the endometrial lining. Should pregnancy occur later, the embryo may struggle to thrive—like a seedling in sandy soil—receiving insufficient nutrients and becoming prone to developmental issues or spontaneous miscarriage.
4. Reproductive Organ Inflammation Affects Fertility
Vaginitis alters vaginal pH and increases white blood cell count, impairing sperm viability and motility. Cervical inflammation alters the local environment, hindering sperm passage through the cervical canal and causing infertility.Untreated or incompletely treated pelvic infections—especially tuberculous or gonococcal infections—can cause tubal adhesions, twists, or narrowing even after recovery, resulting in infertility or ectopic pregnancy.
Traditional Chinese Medicine approaches to regulating infertility include:
1. Coix Seed and Semen Canavaliae Porridge: Prepare 50g Chinese yam, 15g hawthorn, 15g roasted Semen Canavaliae,30g coix seeds. Simmer hawthorn, mung beans, and coix seeds in water until porridge-like. Serve with steamed Chinese yam. This porridge effectively addresses infertility caused by phlegm-damp obstruction.Decoct the herbs in 1200g of water until reduced to 500g, strain out the residue. Simmer the broth with mutton over indirect heat until tender, then season with salt. This warms the kidneys and fortifies the middle jiao. Mutton and angelica warm the body to tonify qi and blood, while dodder seed and mistletoe nourish the kidneys.
Uterine cold in women often stems from kidney yang deficiency, thus requiring warming tonification.Women with uterine coldness, prolonged infertility, and constitutional deficiency. Such women often exhibit scanty, pale menstrual flow, dizziness, tinnitus, cold sensation in the lower abdomen, and diminished libido. This soup is highly suitable for female infertility patients.15g Prepared Rehmannia Root, 15g Ligustrum Fruit. Simmer meat and herbs together in 1200ml water, season with salt to taste. This nourishes kidney essence and enriches yin blood. Goji berries, Prepared Rehmannia, and Ligustrum fruit—all sweet-tasting yin-nourishing herbs—combine with pork's yin-tonifying properties to create an excellent yin-nourishing formula.