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More and more couples are turning to assisted reproduction treatments to achieve pregnancy. Fertility problems can be due to multiple causes, but, according to experts from the Ginefiv clinic, stress does not help anything when it comes to achieving the desired parenthood.

According to the data, women with high levels of stress and anxiety can ovulate up to 20 percent less , and the chance that their eggs will be fertilized decreases by 30 percent. Men are not spared either: stress can negatively influence the quality of your seminal fluid. And it is that anxiety has multiple physiological effects on the reproductive process, either natural or through treatment.

In cases of assisted reproduction, stress can make couples enter a loop: their fertility problems are compounded by the nerves and pressure of this type of treatment, which contributes to a higher failure rate: "there are Throughout the entire process, phases of maximum stress for the couple, such as the day of the ovarian puncture, the embryo transfer or the waiting times until the results of the pregnancy test are known ", explains Beatriz Dibra, Ginefiv psychologist. For this reason, it is necessary, as far as possible, to control negative emotions and learn to manage stress properly to prevent it from becoming an impediment when starting a family.

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