Can Vitamin D Help with Fertility?

Do you know your vitamin D3 level?

Vitamin D3 has long been known to decrease inflammation through its steroid-like properties.

Further, it strengthens bones by helping absorb calcium.

Vitamin D3 helps with your immune system, lessening your risk of cancer.

And it helps with heart health.

That’s a lot but it’s not all vitamin D3 does.

Vitamin D3 affects fertilization and pregnancy

A new study evaluated the relationship between a woman’s D status and her success rate in assisted reproduction therapy. This would include those receiving IVF and fertility medication.

The study revealed those women with adequate vitamin D3 levels were 46% more likely to become pregnant. They were also 33% more likely to have a live birth after receiving fertility treatment.¹ 

Are infertile women seeking fertility help deficient in vitamin D3?

The authors of the study said:

“One startling finding was the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among these women. We found that only 26 percent of women in the studies had sufficient concentrations of vitamin D; 35 percent had deficient concentrations, and 45 percent had insufficient concentrations.”

The percentage of “normal” women was likely much lower

Insufficiency is defined as blood levels below 32 ng/mL.

Deficiency is defined as blood levels below 20 ng/mL.² 

What’s interesting about these results is based on the definitions of “insufficiency” and “deficiency” it’s clear that the researchers included any woman with a blood value of 33 ng/mL or more as “sufficient”.

I, along with many functional medicine doctors, are not satisfied until your blood value is 40 ng/mL or more, with a preferred level at 50-60 ng/mL.

This means the actual percentage of women who were “sufficient” was much less than 26%.

Do you know of anyone with fertility problems?

Clearly, based on this study’s results, it makes sense to have your vitamin D3 status evaluated if you’re planning to conceive. It would be appropriate to take the necessary steps to optimize your vitamin D3 before trying to conceive.

When you consider the myriad of benefits of vitamin D3, optimizing your levels makes good sense across the board for regaining good health.

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References:

1. https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article-abstract/33/1/65/4582928?redirectedFrom=fulltext
2. https://eorthopod.com/faq/whats-the-difference-between-vitamin-d-insufficiency-and-deficiency-i-see-both-terms-and-wonder-if-i-am-one-or-the-other/