Can females who are involved in competitive sports hurt their chances of getting pregnant or lower their fertility rate? Well According to ABC News , female athletes are a lot more likely to have menstrual disorders  which slows down the pregnancy process. Also causing periods to stop which means the body can’t produce eggs without getting her body estrogen. Some athletes like runners, ballet dancers, gymnast, and swimmers starve themselves and end up with no body fat. You need 22% body fat to ovulate and be become pregnant. “44% of ballet dancers don’t have periods”

Olympic swimmer and 9 time medalist Dara Torres was training like every other olympic athlete  but when trying to get pregnant her body failed her. A couple of years after her appearance at the 2008 Beijing games she slowed down her heavy workouts she conceived her first child Tessa. After Tessa being born she publicly admitted that Torres failed 7 fertility treatments. Some females that are training to hard their only chances to have a child is to get donated eggs.

When growing up I have always played sports and trained hard to play in college and in a professional setting. During high school I played volleyball, basketball, and track and threw in track. Over the summer I did soccer summer leagues so I was always doing something. Always trying to get in the “best shape” and  most fit. Not saying I was trying to get pregnant in high school but just not wanting that to effect me long term and not being able to conceive.

For the overall topic I believe that to find the facts and the information from ABC would be experimental, but over time it became observational with college and professional athletes. The hypotheses would be that there are good things to working out and bad things to over working out. The (x-variable ) would be the female athletes, the (y-varible) would be the excessive workouts. Null hypotheses  is that working out excessively has no effect on trying to have children. Are there chances with this i don’t believe so. Third variables being found would be not eating certain things you should be rather it is health or unhealthy.

Sources:

https://www.genesisfertility.com

https://www.asrm.org/detail.aspx?id=2322

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/female-athletes-compromise-fertility-intense-training-dieting/story?id=11539684

I don’t know if any of you had this all throughout elementary or some of middle school, but do you remember when teachers would assign projects and they would play music. Mostly classical or acoustic. Then in high school a teacher taught me that it helps relax the brain and and makes the children “smarter”. Also according to Belle Cooper  all the different genres in music connects with different parts of your brain. Going back to classical music it can make you zone in and visualize on what your working on. Some music is an anti-depressionate and improves mental health so much. It keeps your mind/body calm.

Some scientist say that music is a great way to study. But other scientist say it distracting. For the types of music people should listen to when studying is video soundtracks. It makes sense when you think about it, because the purpose of the music in the game is to help focus on the game and the task given, not to be interruptive. Back in the day when technology wasn’t as good in the early game consoles used very simple and soft  music and melodies. Remember how they use the songs in Tetris and Mario. Very simple and common but soothing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/Studies/how-music-could-help-you-to-concentrate-while-studying-a6907341.html

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-music-help-you-think