Fox Health: Smoking and vaping can have these detrimental effects on fertility, doctors warn

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Smoking and vaping can have these detrimental effects on fertility, doctors warn

Smoking and vaping have been proven to have negative effects on male and female fertility. Drs. Courtney Lynch and Theodore Wagener discuss the specific risks associated with the habit....                        ...                        ...                            ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login products has been proven to have negative effects on fertility, according to research.......That includes vaping in addition to traditional cigarettes.......For those who are You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login or looking to start a family, experts recommend refraining from smoking and vaping.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Courtney D. Lynch, PhD, a doctor of maternal fetal medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, confirmed with Fox News Digital that it has been "well-established" that smoking has an "adverse impact on both natural and medically assisted conception."......"While the human data on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login are sparse, animal data suggest that vaping is also problematic," she said. "Nicotine is a well-established reproductive and developmental toxicant."......Smoking and vaping exposes the embryo to certain harmful compounds, according to Lynch.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The nicotine in vapes and cigarettes is known to impair the functioning of the cilia in the fallopian tubes, she noted.......This then impairs the "proper transport" of the embryo to the uterus when You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and it also increases the risk of a tubal or extra uterine pregnancy, according to Lynch.......Smoking and vaping can also alter gene expression, the doctor added.......Theodore Wagener, PhD, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and co-leader of the Cancer Control Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, referred to scientific literature that suggests smoking "clearly negatively effects fertility."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......In an animal study published by the National Institutes of Health, vaping was shown to exert "harmful effects" during the implantation process of pregnancy, potentially leading to "various pathologies in the offspring."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"In women, smoking damages egg quality and quantity while accelerating egg loss, leading to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and increased risks of fertility treatment failure, miscarriage and menstrual irregularities," Wagener told Fox News Digital.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, smoking can impair fertility by reducing sperm count and quality, damaging DNA and "disrupting testosterone production, which can result in erectile dysfunction," Wagener noted......."For vaping, the scientific literature is limited, but it may similarly impact hormone levels, cause DNA damage and increase erectile dysfunction," he added.......Lynch and Wagener agreed that quitting all You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login products could help improve fertility while limiting exposure to environmental smoke....

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