Meet the Fertility Vitamin: Vitamin D!

Alarmingly, you will be shocked to know that as much as 93 percent of women with fertility problems lack adequate vitamin D! In Turkey, when vitamin D supplements were administered to women, the fertility rates increased by about 6 percent.

I thought I was getting enough Vitamin D from my diet and from walking outside in the sun every day. I also took a regular multivitamin. But to my surprise, my doctor told me that my blood level was pretty low, about 12 ng/mL…

Did you know that vitamin D helps to alleviate polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), plays a key role in reducing uterine fibroids and boosts progesterone and estrogen levels in the blood, which dictate the menstrual cycles and enhances the chances of a healthy conception?

Vitamin D also seems to have an alleviating effect on hormonal imbalance that leads to infertility in many women. High dosage of vitamin D when administered to women greatly reduced their estrogen levels.

Progesterone was reduced by 10% and estrogen by 3% per 10mg/nil of serum vitamin D.

Interestingly, vitamin D has also been seen to enhance the success rates of couples undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

In fact, you will be amazed to know that in many northern countries, conception rates peak during summer when sunshine gets the body into vitamin D synthesis mode, and dwindle during dark winters when vitamin D formation by the body is considerably lower!

You must, however, stand cautioned. A study carried out in Greece states that overdose of vitamin D levels can reduce the chances of pregnancy.

This can happen in women when they have too much of vitamin D in their body coupled with very low amounts of vitamins A and K.

It is a good practice to determine the vitamin requirements of your body, and then test your existing vitamin D levels to arriving at a baseline of inputs required.

Beginners can take about 1000 IU’s for every 25 pounds of body weight, and then test again.

So you must switch to a lifestyle that induces the mechanism of vitamin D formation in your body. The ideal quantity will be different for different body types, but a good starting point can be 4,000 IU.

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