
Sport and Fertility; What are the consequences of excessive sport?
When it comes to women, to carry out too much or too little exercise can cause hormonal imbalances which alter ovulation. In high performance athletes there can be cases of:- In more serious cases, there is a lack of menstrual cycle and no pregnancy due to lack of ovulation.
- Luteal insufficiency: Many women athletes maintain their menstrual cycle and their ovulatory capacity but they present a decrease in the production of progesterone during the second phase of the menstrual cycle. The importance of this lies in that fertility can find itself compromised by that progesterone deficiency – this is the hormone responsible for a good embryo implantation. For this reason, we can find women athletes with implantation failures and premature miscarriages.