• The presence of stress in your life can negatively impact fertility
• The presence of stress overburdens the sympathetic nervous system and starts a cortisol build up
• Cortisol tells your body to go into the flight fight response, undermining your reproductive function
• Stress compromises your immune system
• A compromised immune system places the body on alert to reject any foreign body, including fertilized embryo’s
• Marital distress in women increases the number of treatment cycles required for pregnancy
• Chronic insulin resistance, a by- product of stress, causes polycystic ovarian dysfunction (PCOS)
• Polycystic ovarian dysfunction (PCOS) causes women to develop an excess of male hormones (androgen)
• The overproduction of androgen suppresses egg maturation and can damage your eggs
• PCOS increases the rate of miscarriage
• Smoking, a by-product of stress, weakens the cell structure of a fertilized embryo

Please be sure to fill out your stress questionnaire…stress levels amplify during infertility treatment…we are dedicated in our practice to remove the cycle of stress in order to achieve your goals of fertility sooner…

Please do you and your body a favor and make an appointment ASAP with our counselor on staff, Karen Ann Brook LCSW