The impact of diet on IVF and more: How to eat to boost your fertility 

ÁINE, a Kildare-based teacher in her mid-30s, has been trying to get pregnant for 18 months. Nine months in, she had her GP do some bloodwork. This showed low progesterone, which a fertility clinic later confirmed.

“The clinic said my BMI was quite high and to go to a nutritionist. I was taken aback. I wouldn’t have classed myself as overweight,” says Áine, who acknowledges she has ‘weight-cycled’ since her early 20s.

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