Health-E Books: Get Ready To Get Pregnant
Building a healthy baby starts long before conception, and Get Ready To Get Pregnant, by Michael C. Lu, M.D., offers up a thorough plan to have your body in tip-top shape. It includes 10 brain foods...
View ArticleHealth Tip – Keep That Laptop Off Your Lap
If you’re a guy who wants to be fertile, that is. Parking that laptop across your legs tops the list of behaviors that could impact your ability to become a dad, according to reproductive specialist...
View ArticleFertility Fiction
The Doctors’ Lisa Masterson, M.D., Gives Us the Facts About Getting Pregnant It’s tough when you feel as if you’ve tried everything – and still no baby. I’ve talked with more than one couple about this...
View ArticleFertility Prescriptions – Plus
More than 7 million couples in the U.S. struggle with infertility. The good news is that there are treatment options. The bad news is that those options can get expensive – and aren’t always covered by...
View ArticleFlame Retardant Chemicals Linked To Lower Fertility
The higher a woman’s blood levels of common flame retardant chemicals, the tougher it is for her to get pregnant, a study from UC Berkeley shows. Chemicals called PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers)...
View ArticleResearchers ‘Wake Up’ Dormant Ovarian Follicles
Pioneering a technique that might one day help extend women’s fertility, researchers from Stanford University Medical School and Chinese and Japanese colleagues have manipulated genes to make dormant...
View ArticleLack Of Omega-3s Linked To Male Infertility
Guys: Here’s another reason to take those fish oil supplements and embrace canola oil for cooking. A University of Illinois study published in February found that DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) could be...
View ArticleGet Strong With Yoga
You might know her best as the award-winning actress who portrays Mary Alice Young on Desperate Housewives, but she’s also got major cred as a yoga teacher. Brenda Strong teaches at the Mind Body...
View ArticleSmall Study Links BPA to Reduced Egg Quality In Women
The first evidence that exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) might compromise the quality of a woman’s eggs is in. A small study from UC San Francisco found women who had double the level of BPA in their...
View ArticleFor Healthy Babies, Eat Your Cereal
It’s as easy as eating a bowl of cereal, and if all women of childbearing age did it, hundreds of California babies would be born healthy – rather than with defects of the brain and spinal cord that...
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