The front cover article of Newsweek ("Infertility and Diet") caused me to come unglued because it failed to address all but a small slice of the infertility world, namely ovulatory dysfunction, and made it sound like diet is a panacea. And it never once mentioned that half of infertility is attributable to the male. Argh!
But Dr. Licciardi gets most of it right on how limited this information really is.
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Oh crap, I'm outta the loop. I'll have to check up on this over the weekend. Thanks for the heads up.
I hate when mainstream news sources don't report the whole story.
It does sh!t me to tears that now well meaning knobs will be able to blame my lack of baby on diet. As in, well have you tried changing your diet?
Like that will cure pcos in a lean, non IR woman who doesn't ovulate, let alone my spouses' severe male factor OR my tendancy to screw up neural tubes.
Urgh.
J
Great, now I will have to change my diet, too? I might as well just prop my pelvis on a pillow and keep my legs in the air while I am at it.
I will have to check up on this article.
Great, now I will have to change my diet, too? I might as well just prop my pelvis on a pillow and keep my legs in the air while I am at it.
I will have to check up on this article.
God. I feel like a total moron.
Maybe it's because of the horrendous IVF experience I had this summer and the ultimate ectopic pregnancy and rupture, that made me fall for the article hook, line, and sinker. Then there's the fact that tomorrow my "infertility break" ends and I return to the RE and will - most likely - begin preparing for a January IVF cycle. I guess I REALLY wanted to believe that by cutting out meat and subbing out my skim milk for whole I could avoid the whole IVF nightmare. Seems sort of naive now.
Wish I'd read all the blogs before I ordered the book from Amazon. Oh well... : )
My offical dx is ovulatory dysfunction but I am 99% sure it is not due to my diet. I am not overweight and I don't eat THAT badly. Sure, I could eat better but I'm not becoming a vegetarian and I'm not switching to whole milk or any of that propaganda.
I think that Newsweek will work perfectly to start the fire in my fireplace! :)
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