Are you trying to get pregnant? Know what time to go to bed

Sleeping late reduces a woman’s chances of fertility. According to a study conducted in China, women trying to conceive should go to bed no later than 10:45 p.m.

In the study, researchers from the Second Xiangya Hospital in Hunan Province, China, followed 4,000 women of childbearing age over a five-year period (2015 to 2020) to see how sleep patterns affected their chances of getting pregnant. They said they ruled out other factors that could reduce the chances of conception, such as obesity, smoking and heavy drinking. Daily mail.

The results showed that women who went to bed after 10:45 p.m. were 22% more likely to have fertility problems.

Researchers stress that the problem is not just the number of hours. sleep, but rather with a sleep schedule, and it is not advisable to go to bed too late – this explains the establishment of a sleep time.

The results of the study, conducted in China, have been published in a scientific journal Frontiers of Endocrinologyshowed little difference in fertility rates among those who went to bed before 10:45 p.m. After that time, there was a sharp drop – by more than a fifth – in a woman’s chances of getting pregnant.

The researchers believe that sleeping later disrupts the body’s internal clock and sets off a hormonal chain reaction that reduces the chances of a woman’s egg being fertilised by sperm. “Any disruption (to hormonal mechanisms) can lead to infertility,” the experts said, adding that “the rapidly changing nature of modern society has led to significant changes in people’s lifestyles… increasing numbers of people are tending to delay their bedtimes.”

According to the University of Medicine of Porto, between 260,000 and 290,000 couples in Portugal suffer from infertility. Most women who have difficulty getting pregnant attribute the problem to hormonal problems (48%) or changes in ovulation (41%).