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Hot Flashes Likely Not Relieved with Exercise

Researchers in the U.S. randomly assigned 142 women who were either approaching menopause or postmenopausal to continue their usual activities and 106 to do aerobic exercise three times a week for 12 weeks. The women kept diaries to record their hot flashes and night sweats — known as vasomotor symptoms — as well as how well they slept.

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Active Lifestyle Leading Up To IVF Treatment Makes Women Far More Likely To Conceive

Gardening, doing the housework or going for brisk walks can treble IVF success, according to researchers. Women who led active lifestyles in the year leading up to their treatment were far more likely to conceive. Scientists have been divided about whether exercise helps or hinders the chances of pregnancy, either naturally or with IVF.

While some studies have found that physical activity reduces fertility, others have found it improves it – or makes no difference.

Now scientists have found that women who do the housework, go for brisk walks or take other ‘moderate’ forms of exercise are three times more likely to conceive than those who spend most of the day sitting down.

The lifestyles of 87 women undergoing IVF were compared in the year leading up to their treatment. Read full article.

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Orange City Mother Beats Infertility With Weight Loss

ORANGE CITY— When it came to having a baby, Holly Hancock wasn’t having the same success as her family and friends.

Hancock, 33, had struggled with weight her entire life, and by her early 30s she reached 257 pounds. After several failed attempts to conceive, Hancock learned that she had polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition that affects a woman’s fertility and hormones. Many women who have weight issues struggle with PCOS, which causes a hormone imbalance that can make it difficult to lose weight. Read full article.

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Infertility in Obese Women May be Due to Damaged Egg, Brigham Study Finds

Obesity has long been associated with infertility as well as lower success rates with in vitro fertilization, and now researchers think they understand why: Obese women are more likely to have abnormalities in their eggs that make them impossible to fertilize.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital infertility researchers examined nearly 300 eggs that failed to fertilize during IVF in both severely obese women and those with a normal body weight. They found that severely obese women were far more likely to have abnormally arranged chromosomes within their eggs compared with women who weren’t overweight, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction. Read full article.