Lifestyle Choices, From Diet To Supplements

All the data on lifestyle choices and their impact on fertility, including decisions around diet, exercise, drinking alcohol, caffeine consumption, smoking, recreational drugs, and using supplements.

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Lifestyle Choices, From Diet To Supplements
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Experts you'll learn from

Dr. Peter Schlegel

Chairman of Urology
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Former President, ASRM

Dr. Jorge Chavarro

Associate Professor
Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Michael Eisenberg

Director, Male Fertility
Stanford School of Medicine

Dr. Lubna Pal

Section Chief
Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Natan Bar-Chama

Director, Male Reproductive Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Audrey Gaskins

Instructor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Daniel Dumesic

Professor of OBGYN
UCLA School of Medicine

Dr. Peter Humaidan

Professor, Aarhus University

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What you'll learn

The lifestyle choices you make while trying to conceive can change your odds of pregnancy and the well-being of your offspring. In this guide, we cover the effects of coffee and alcohol consumption, as well as the positives and negatives of exercise. We also delve into the impact of specific diets and the benefits and risks of consuming meat, seafood, dairy, carbohydrates, and more. Additionally, we dispel the myths around which vitamins and supplements work or can inhibit your ability to conceive.

Course Syllabus9 Lessons2h 25m

  1. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Getting Started: Lifestyle Decisions & Fertility
  2. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Smoking and Fertility
    2. Coffee & Fertility
    3. Drinking Alcohol & Fertility
  3. Lesson 3 (20 min)
    Body Fat and Fertility
    In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. What is BMI?
    2. How Does BMI Influence Fertility?
    3. Delaying Treatment To Lose Weight
    4. Body Fat: Risks For Pregnancy & Offspring
  4. Lesson 4 (15 min)
    Exercise and Fertility
    In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. The Basics of Fertility & Exercise
    2. Moderate Exercise
    3. Exercise For Men’s Fertility
  5. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Mediterranean Diet’s Impact on Fertility
    2. Profertility Diet
    3. Fast Food Diet
  6. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Carbohydrates & Fertility
    2. Meat’s Impact On Fertility
    3. Seafood & Fish For Fertility
    4. Dairy Consumption & Fertility
    5. Soy’s Impact on Fertility
    6. Fatty Acids
  7. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Vitamin D
    2. Folate, Folic Acid and B9
    3. Antioxidants & Fertility
  8. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. BPA, Toxins, Pesticide and Phthalate Exposure
    2. Air Pollution
  9. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Lifestyle & Sperm DNA Fragmentation