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Louise Mitchell
London Women’s Clinic
Can alcohol affect fertility and IVF success rates?
Louise Mitchell advises that alcohol can negatively impact fertility and IVF success rates, and so anyone hoping to conceive should cut down to below 14 units per week.
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Alcohol can affect fertility and IVF success rates. It's a little bit unsure of how it affects women's fertility, but we do know that if...for men, it can affect their fertility. So if men are drinking excessively and which we would class as more than 14 units per week, which is the current NHS guidelines, then we do know that this can have an impact on sperm count and sperm motility.