Why drinking coffee makes it hard for women to conceive, might have discovered by researchers. A novel study has found that caffeine, the refreshment in coffee, blights the carrying of eggs from ovaries to the womb. The earlier studies have already shown that drinking too much coffee may affect woman’s fertility.
The researchers from the University of Nevada in Reno, US conducted a new study on mice, which showed that caffeine inhibits contractions of the Fallopian tubes which are required to transport eggs to the womb. The refreshment de-activates specialized pacemaker cells in the walls of the tubes. The cells synchronize waves of tube contractions which move the eggs towards the womb.
The contractions play a larger role in egg transportation than beating hair-like cilia that line the wall of the Fallopian tubes, suggests the new study. Earlier it was thought the reverse was the case. According to study leader Prof Sean Ward, this finding goes a long way towards explaining why drinking caffeinated drinks can diminish a woman’s chance of getting pregnant.
This provides an intriguing elucidation as to why women with high caffeine consumption frequently take longer to conceive than women who do not consume caffeine, added Prof Ward. The by-product of the study would likely to give greater insight into how Fallopian tubes function and could help doctors treat pelvic inflammation and sexually transmitted diseases.
The additional benefit could be to improve understanding of ectopic pregnancy, which is painful and potentially life-threatening condition that results in embryos grows within the Fallopian tubes, reported the study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology.