Spending Excessive time in gym can reduce women’s fertility
Researchers found that ’superwoman work-outs’ made fertility problems three times more likely.Spending too much time in the gym can reduce a woman’s chances of having children, a study shows.The findings were made by Norwegian University of Science and Technology after a study of 3,000 women.While experts agree that a certain amount of physical exercise has obvious health benefits, it is believed that too much saps the body of the energy it needs for a successful pregnancy. 
In a survey, the women were questioned about the frequency, duration and intensity of their fitness regimes between 1984 and 1986.In a follow-up ten years later, they were asked about their pregnancies.There were those who trained almost every day, and there were those who trained until they were completely exhausted.’Sigridur Lara Gudmundsdottir, who led the study, said: ‘Among all these women, we found two groups who experienced an increased risk of infertility.
Those who did both had the highest risk of infertility.’Even after taking other factors such as age, weight, marital status and smoking into account, figures showed those who trained the hardest were three times more likely to have fertility problems than those who exercised moderately.
Younger women appeared to be more vulnerable to the risk. Among the under-30s who exercised the most, a quarter were unable to conceive during their first year of trying, compared to the national average of roughly seven per cent.It was not known whether this was because the women had simply changed their activity levels or because their hormone profile improved with time.
There was no evidence of impaired fertility through moderate amounts of exercise.Gudmundsdottir advised that women who want babies should still maintain their fitness - but ‘ease off a bit’ and avoid extremes.We believe it is likely that physical activity at a very high or very low level has a negative effect on fertility, while moderate activity is beneficial,’ she said.
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The study, published in the Journal of the Amercian Medical Association, has sparked renewed debate over robotically assisted surgery, and over how much surgeons should be obliged to tell patients about their success rates.Evidence suggests that robotic prostate cancer surgery, far from being the saviour of men, is leaving them with more incontinence and impotence than traditional techniques.However, the pioneers of robotic surgery in Australia have defended the procedure, saying the research was flawed.

