The use of large amounts of coffee reduces the ability of women to become pregnant, scientists say.

Dutch researchers conducted a study in which 9,000 women participated in infertility treatment. Experts tried to study the influence of factors such as caffeine on the possibility of getting pregnant naturally. The researchers interviewed the participants and analyzed the findings to understand how lifestyle components affected women's ability to become pregnant.

It turned out that drinking at least three times a week reduces the possibility of getting pregnant as well as consuming caffeine. The possibility of getting pregnant was even more significantly reduced if a woman smoked more than one cigarette a day and was overweight.

Researchers came to the conclusion that a 36-year-old woman who smokes, consumes coffee and alcohol in large quantities, and also has overweight problems, which has gone through three cycles of infertility treatment, has a 5% probability of getting pregnant naturally. And if the woman was healthy and did not smoke, but consumed a lot of coffee and alcohol, her chance to get pregnant would be 15%, say scientists.

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