Bisphenol A (BPA) Could Affect Fertility

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | 0 comments

Bisphenol A (BPA) is getting more bad press these days -- this time on the female fertility front.

A research team headed by Julie Lamb, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco, reported that BPA may have a negative impact on female fertility.

The researchers measured BPA levels in the blood of patients undergoing their first cycle of IVF. Of 41 women, 93 percent had quantifiable levels of BPA. Women who did not become pregnant were more likely to have higher BPA levels than women with lower BPA levels.

In addition, a team headed up by Lusine Aghajanova, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, has concluded that even short-term exposure of uterine cells to BPA can interfere with the way that they develop and prepare for a possible pregnancy (for example, creating a suitable cellular environment to allow the embryo to implant successfully).

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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.

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