Trying to get pregnant? Then cut the cappuccino. A recent study in the British Journal of Pharmacology has found that caffeine inhibits Fallopian tube 'muscles' from carrying eggs from a woman's ovaries to her womb.
By studying mice, professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Sean Ward discovered that caffeine slows down the contractions of muscles that help push eggs into a woman's uterus.
"As well as potentially helping women who are finding it difficult to get pregnant, a better understanding of the way Fallopian tubes work will help doctors treat pelvic inflammation and sexually-transmitted disease more successfully," said Ward.
Not only will this breakthrough discovery prove beneficial to women struggling to fall pregnant, it will also help doctors understand other, potentially life-threatening conditions, such as ectopic pregnancies, in which embryos get stuck and start developing inside a woman's fallopian tube.
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