Impact of lifestyle on fertility

Background and Aim : Parent’s lifestyle and environmental factors such as diet, body composition, airpollution, exposure to endocrine disruptions and stress influence not only their health status, but also mayincrease the risk of infertility problems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the possibleeffects of lifestyle on reproductive qualityMethods : Using the keywords fertility, infertility, lifestyle in the databases of Pubmed, Scopus, Embaseand web of science, english review articles of the last two years were studiedResults : Results of the most studies demonstrated that age, smoking, being overweight or losing weightand consumption of alcohol impact on general health and adversely on reproductive performanceConclusion : Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are negatively correlated with fertility potential. Thereforeinfertile couples must be educated about the risk factors to purposefully changing their lifestyle. Alsoevaluating people s awareness about impact of lifestyle on fertility is essential for preventing thedevelopment of infertility

کلیدواژه ها:

Lifestyle ، infertility ، Smoking ، Awareness