The smartest solutions to biggest problems are often simple. In a new research conducted by Lindsey Russo and her advisor Brian Whitcomb of the University of Massachussets Amherst, it has been found that walking can aid your chance of becoming pregnant. The study was published in the Journal Human Reproduction. Russo and Whitcomb’s findings among healthy women ages 18 to 40 years old with a history of one or two pregnancy losses are based on their secondary analysis of the multi-site Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction (EAGeR) study.
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He conducted this research among 1214 women and was found that the association of walking with the ability to become pregnant, known as fecundability, changed according to their body mass index. So among obese women, even a walk of ten minutes was found to improve the fecundability. Also women reporting more than four hours of physical activity had a higher chance of conceiving than with no activity at all. The researchers said that these findings provide positive evidence for the benefits of physical activity in women attempting pregnancy.
Russo said, “One of our main findings is that there was no overall relationship between most types of physical activity and the likelihood of becoming pregnant for women who had already had one or two pregnancy losses, except for walking, which was associated with a higher likelihood of becoming pregnant among women who were overweight or obese.”
“We don’t know what to make of the finding that high intensity physical activity may have different biological effects than walking, but our study doesn’t offer enough detail to get at why vigorous activity would work differently than other levels,” said Whitcomb.
The bottom line is that a woman who has plans to start a family should do at least 4 hours of work out in a week.
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