Scientific research confirms that hard physical labor reduces reproductive ability

Lifting heavy loads repeatedly may affect the woman's fertility, at least that's the outcome of a recently published study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Although more scientists are needed above https://periscope.com/mos-engrini-a-a... reproducing/reproductive research to verify the fundamental cause of infertility, the team of Harvard T.H. Chan, the School of Public Health, believes that women in the column of reproductive years (in their 20s until the early 1930s) should consider this fact.

Studies have been linked through years between hard work, prolonged working hours, and stress with a woman's ability to conceive and bear a pregnancy. But the latest research has directly examined factors that affect women's fertility as hormone levels and egg numbers and how the latter changes over the years.

Researchers studied more than 470 women and concluded that hard work directly influenced the number of mature eggs capable of developing into healthy embryos. Women who reported motions and weight lifts had 8.8% fewer eggs in general and 14.1% fewer mature eggs, compared to women who had never taken on heavy physical activity. This reduction of ripe eggs was even greater among women who were also overweight or over the age of 37.

The mechanisms that explain this connection in reducing fertility are unknown, but researchers want to explore further and see if this impact on fertility can be reduced, improved or avoided. /Living