Handbook of Fertility

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.

Section A: Overview on Fertility 1. Perceptions of Environmental Risks to Fertility 2. Paternal smoking as a cause for transgenerational damage in the offspring 3. Impact of cigarette smoking during pregnancy on conception and fetal health through serum folate levels 4. The effect of maternal metabolic health and diet on the follicular fluid composition and potential consequences for oocyte and embryo quality 5. The effect of Heavy Metals on preterm mortality and morbidity 6. Nitrate, Nitrite, Nitrosatable Drugs, and Congenital Malformations 7. The Application of Reproductive Techniques (ART): worldwide epidemiology phenomenon and treatment outcomes 8. The effect of environmental hormone disrupters on infertility, strategy to reverse their impact 9. Embryo losses during nutritional treatments in animal models: lessons for humans

Section B:  Bariatric Surgery, Obesity and fertility 10. Fertility and testosterone improvement in male patients after bariatric surgery 11. Obesity and reproductive dysfunction in men and women 12. Obesity on gestational outcomes Section C:  Exercise and Lifestyle in Fertility 13. Lifestyle factors and reproductive health 14. Effect of diet and physical activity of farm animals on their health and reproductive performance 15. Prenatal physical activity and gestational weight gain 16. Lifestyle intervention for resumption of ovulation in anovulatory women with obesity and infertility 17. Effects of lifestyle on female reproductivefeatures and success: lessons from animal models Section D:  Nutrition and Reproduction 18. Green Leafy Vegetables: A Health Promoting Source 19. Nutrition lifestyle and obesity in urology  20. Pregnancy with multiple micronutrients: perinatal mortality reduction 21. Nutrition and Hormones: Role in male infertility 22. Nutritional and developmental programming of the Central Nervous System (CNS) 23. Herbal supplements in pregnancy:effects on conception and delivery 24. Selenium in fertility and reproduction 25. The role of oxidative stress in Endometriosis 26. Oxidative stress and pre-eclampsia Section E:  Nutrition and Lifestyle in in-vitro Fertilization 27. The psychological management of infertility 28. The role of body mass index on assisted reproductive treatment outcome  29. Health outcomes of Children Conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technology 30. Influence Of Male Hyperinsulinaemia On IVF Outcome Section F:  Nutrition, Lifestyle and Male Fertility 31. Dietary zinc deficiency & testicular apoptosis  32. Environmental factors, food intake and social habits in male patients and its relationship to intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcomes 33. The role of over-the-counter supplements for the treatment of male infertility 34. Sperm physiology and assessment of spermatogenesis kinetics in vivo 35. Antioxidant treatment and prevention of human sperm DNA fragmentation: Role in health and fertility 36. Epigenetics and its role in male infertility