Tuesday 6th May 2014
UK
Health Radio Medical News Update
Fertility Breakthorugh
A study has just been published that sheds light on
the way that key hormones can affect the brain and how this knowledge may be
able to pave the way for new fertility treatments.
The Imperial College London research team included
five women with hypothalamic amenorrhea in their study. This condition is one that is common in
athletes, and makes periods stop.
The researchers say that stimulating the brain to
make more of the hormone, kisspeptin, might boost fertility and while the team
admit that the study is relatively small, they have said it was an interesting
concept.
The scientists studied kisspeptin and another
reproductive hormone that in women with HA, is depleted and disrupts the
menstruation cycle, potentially leading to infertility. In those women, the hypothalamus - a part of
the brain that regulates the menstrual cycle - stops producing hormones
correctly. The exact reason why is unknown.
About one in 100 women in Britain, have HA and this
number jumps to and one in 10 professional female athletes. Dr Channa
Jayasena of Imperial College London said that if the study was viable, it might well provide an alternative to and
may also be less costly than IVF.
The study looked at women with HA aged between 24
and 31 and you can read the whole transcript of the study in the Journal of
Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Amanda Thomas
UK Health Radio Medical News On the Hour kindly
sponsored by 1-stop-health-shop.com
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