Obesity For Women, Can Affect Fertility And Menstruation Levels

Illustration of obesity (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) said that obesity can affect fertility rates and menstruation cycles that always occur in a woman every month.," said Head of BKKBN Hasto Wardoyo after the 2023 BKKBN Coordination Meeting, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday 7 March. Hasto stated that every woman is born with an estrogen hormone which plays a very important role in the development of the women's reproductive process. Some of its functions are to regulate cholesterol levels and reduce plaque buildup in blood vessels in the heart. In addition, estrogen also functions to stimulate the growth of mature eggs and stimulate the menstrual cycle. According to him, it is feared that obese women can trigger the occurrence of Amenorea or the condition of women who do not experience it The menstrual cycle as usual. This can affect the next cycles. Then there are also cases where obesity, followed by diabetes, so that makes women experience diabetes. Sweet listening that occurs repeatedly, opens the potential for someone to have ovarian polyxytic syndrome. Ovalium politics is a disease where a woman's ovum cannot develop normally due to unbalanced hormones in the body. We find cases "It's like that to be an ovarian polycistic. It's called an ovary, it means a lot of eggs and a cyst. So the egg life is small like cysts and a lot. But it's not a big cyst disease and this is what makes them not lay eggs," he said. Hasto asked every woman to maintain a diet with balanced nutrition, so as not to be obese that endangers the health of the mother-to-be. Every woman can return to eating local food such as kelor leaves, which can be used as an alternative to fulfill iron and eat animal protein from eggs or catfish. Hasto also suggested that people get used to eating according to a balanced portion and pay attention to the calories consumed every day. "That's why I agree that overweight people have something to do with infertility. But when it comes to intelligence (in children), I haven't met the literature, maybe it needs to be investigated more," he said. The Association of Indonesian Obesity Studies (Hisobi) reports that the problem of obesity in adults can affect a person's fertility factor. Body capacity in storing very large amounts of fat, risks responding to the work increase of the hormone estrogen. Too high fat releases negative remnants for the body that will affect the process of endocrine mechanism or the hormonal process in the body so that it affects the menstrual cycle, the fertility cycle is also affected," he said. Representative of Hisobi Nurul Ratna Mutu Manikam.

Nurul also explained that the number of accumulated fats in the stomach also mechanically caused the tubus in the uterus to become narrow so that the fertilization process would be disrupted. For example, based on Basic Health Research (Riskesdas), from 2007 to 2018 cases of obesity continued to increase from 19.1 percent to 35.4 percent. The proportion of increase based on gender is dominated by women 44.4 percent and men 26.6 percent. "The increase in cases of obesity is actually more in women than in men," he said.