Cravings a sign of low fertility

Cravings are linked to chronic health conditions that lower your fertility and make falling pregnant naturally harder.

It's not uncommon for cravings and lowered fertility to be linked together. Women who are trying to conceive naturally may be suffering from cravings triggered by free radical accumulation, toxic overload, poor glucose regulation and hormonal imbalance. This why cravings can lead to difficulty falling pregnant and dramatically reduce your odds of falling pregnant naturally ... when your "baby ready".

Giving into cravings will lower your fertility and make it harder to fall pregnant naturally. Forgoing your favorite foods when you have an urge to devour them can not only seem difficult, but downright impossible. However satisfying, this sugar, caffeine, chocolate or salt craving will put you on the fast track to poor health, weight gain and lowered fertility.

Diets, tiredness and hormones can affect your desire for certain foods and a small number of cravings can be the result of a food allergy.

Stress may also play a role in increasing your cravings due to it stimulating the release of cortisol. Cortisol triggers the release of glucose, potentially contributing to metabolic syndrome which is a leading cause of lowered fertility in women. It stimulates your appetite and can leave you craving carbohydrates.

This rebound effect is often incorrectly labeled as emotional eating. Although some of us do eat for comfort, often the cravings are ravenous and uncontrollable. If this is happening to you, it could be your hormones and if your trying to fall pregnant, you need to take action NOW!

Oestrogen Dominance or high levels of estrogens caused by environmental toxins can cause cravings - especially before your period. Oestrogen dominance is associated with hormonal imbalances that sabotage your chances of falling pregnant naturally such as:

High oestrogen contributes to insulin resistance, which results in impaired glucose tolerance or a rise in glucose levels, as it's not entering the cells where it's needed. This has a direct affect upon your metabolism and sabotages your fertility.

It could be you need more progesterone to counter the possible higher oestrogen and to implement oestrogen clearance strategies to balance your hormones so you can achieve optimal fertility and stay fertile longer into your 20's, 30's, 40's and beyond.