And that's true from both the male side and the sperm and is true from the female side and the egg . So my simple advice on this is if you are wishing to have a healthy fertilization and pregnancy , the best thing to do would be avoid alcohol together . And if you're going to drink to really limit that drinking to one or two drinks per week maximum .
Our old friend from a couple of hours ago , in this discussion to disrupt GNRH secretion , you can disrupt pituitary function with alcohol . Again and again , what we're seeing is that consuming more than one or two drinks per week of alcohol is really detrimental to the entire process of fertility and the entire process of healthy pregnancy . And that's true from both the male side and the sperm and is true from the female side and the egg .
No one can tell you . But also if you're somebody who is interested in conceiving a child , well , then you absolutely should abstain from ingesting drinks more than one or two during the time in which you're trying to conceive . And ideally , it would be zero and you certainly would want to avoid drinking multiple drinks per night .
Two drinks per week total . And that's the level that you really should consider if you're a drinker , if you're somebody who's trying to conceive . However , for a woman who becomes pregnant , the total number of drinks that you should allow yourself per week while pregnant and breastfeeding is indeed zero , there is absolutely no evidence that one can quote unquote , get away with drinking during pregnancy .
That is not what I'm saying here . What I'm saying is , is that if you go out on a given night and you have five or six drinks and you happen to become pregnant , the probability that that pregnancy will be disrupted in some way is greatly increased , what the exact consequences are . No one can tell you .
