Childhood health influences women's fertility

Fertility is a process for which the woman's body is preparing from birth.

Therefore, it is logical that the conditions in which a girl grows affect her ability to have children in adulthood.

This is suggested by a study by researchers at University College London who analyzed the hormonal levels of women who had migrated from the United Kingdom to Bangladesh at different stages of their lives.

They found that women who had spent their childhood in the United Kingdom, in better health conditions, had higher levels of progesterone than those who had grown up in Bangladesh.

Therefore, they can affirm that the increase in reproductive hormones, and therefore a greater possibility of conceiving, is related to the conditions of health, health and lower risk of suffering diseases during early childhood.

Despite this, images of the offspring of children that a woman may have in some disadvantaged countries where health is very poor come to mind.

What the study says is very logical. However, in these regions the poor health conditions have not diminished the ability of women to have children.

Maybe the body knows how to "program" before the difficulties of the environment where it lives.