Nutrition for Fertility: Dietary Strategies to Improve Reproductive Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition in Women".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endometriosis; nutrition; Alzheimer; PCOS; fertility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infertility is no longer a marginal concern—it is a global health priority, affecting millions of individuals and couples worldwide. In this context, nutrition has emerged as a fundamental and modifiable determinant of reproductive health, influencing key processes such as gamete quality, hormonal balance, endometrial receptivity, and pregnancy outcomes.
Growing evidence highlights how dietary patterns, micronutrients, and bioactive compounds regulate metabolic, inflammatory, and oxidative pathways that are directly involved in fertility. Moreover, the interaction between nutrition and both gut and reproductive microbiota represents a crucial axis in shaping reproductive potential.
This Special Issue of Nutrients aims to place nutrition at the core of reproductive medicine, bringing together cutting-edge research and clinically relevant insights focused on nutritional strategies to improve fertility outcomes. We welcome contributions investigating targeted dietary interventions, nutrient–gene interactions, microbiota modulation, and the role of environmental and lifestyle factors through a nutritional lens.
We particularly encourage submissions that translate nutritional science into clinical practice, offering personalized and evidence-based approaches applicable to both natural conception and assisted reproductive technologies (ART).
In a field urgently needing actionable and integrative solutions, nutrition represents a powerful and often underutilized therapeutic tool. By contributing to this Special Issue, you will help to advance a paradigm shift in reproductive medicine—one in which nutrition becomes a central pillar in both prevention and treatment.
Submit your work and join this important scientific dialogue.
Dr. Veronica Corsetti
Guest Editor
Dr. Annalisa Liprino
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- reproductive nutrition
- fertility
- assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
- gut microbiota
- hormonal regulation
- oocyte quality
- sperm quality
- inflammation
- nutraceuticals
- personalized nutrition
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