Eggs can look a bit dodgy when we pull them out maybe. They might have a bumpy cytoplasm or look a bit not quite right when we get them out. Maybe they don’t fertilize, maybe they don’t develop into nice cleavage stage embryos so they’re not dividing into two and three and four cells or maybe they do all of that and they just don’t make it to blastocyst. All of these things can be indicative of an egg quality iss8.
The Mediterranean diet is the main thing that’s been linked with egg health and egg resilience. I like to call it. There are two factors to egg quality and one is what you’re born with and the other is the bits that you can change through diet and lifestyle. I like to call that the resilience of the egg and the foods that improve that are those that are incorporated in the mediterranean diet generally. Healthy fats, lots and lots of antioxidants, lots of really colorful food, fresh fruit and veggies. All of those things that we know, constitute a healthy diet and definitely a reduction in sugar and ultra processed foods.
Foods that are actually high in antioxidants are known to help with improving the egg quality or the environment at least in the ovaries where the eggs are being developed. Berries are very high in antioxidants so fresh organic fruits and vegetables are extremely good because they have the right level of vitamins that can help you through the process of ovulation and development of the eggs that are in your ovaries and generally the environment of the ovaries. Lots of water, we need to get hydrated to make sure that we have a good blood flow and enough oxygen to the ovaries.
Also what is important, is a balanced diet so a diet that is rich in vitamins and also protein and some carbohydrates as well. Balanced diet is really what is needed. Also what is important is avoidance of certain things we’ve already discussed which is nicotine, caffeine, alcohol: these can impact the development and the quality of the eggs and then of course exercise also will help the process of development of egg quality.
