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Stress affects fertility

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | 0 comments

Researchers from University of California, Berkeley claim to have found a missing piece of puzzle about how stress causes sexual dysfunction.

The study showed that stress delivers a double whammy on reproductive system and fertility.

It is already known that stress boosts levels of stress hormones - glucocorticoids such as cortisol - that inhibit the body''s main sex hormone, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), and subsequently suppresses sperm count, ovulation and sexual activity.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health/Stress-affects-fertility/articleshow/4662447.cms

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