Intermittent fasting, a diet that calls for restricting one's food consumption to certain hours of the day, can reportedly influence women's fertility.

据报道，间歇性禁食会影响女性的生育能力，这种饮食法将饮食限制在一天的特定时间内。

A study conducted on fish models showed intermittent fasting disproportionately affects males and females. The study was focused on the zebrafish models because humans and the species are very similar on the genetic level.

一项对鱼类模型进行的研究表明，间歇性禁食对男性和女性的影响不成比例。这项研究主要集中在斑马鱼模型上，因为人类和该物种在遗传水平上非常相似。

The findings of the study were published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences.

这项研究结果发表在《英国皇家学会学报:生物科学》上。

While on the diet, females experienced a drop in egg and offspring quality. The male sperm quality was also affected during the course of the diet.

在节食期间，雌性的卵子和后代质量都有所下降。在饮食过程中，男性精子质量也受到了影响。

Time-restricted fasting is an eating pattern where people limit their food consumption to certain hours of the day. It's a popular health and fitness trend and people are doing it to lose weight and improve their health. But the way organisms respond to food shortages can affect the quality of eggs and sperm, and such effects could potentially continue after the end of the fasting period.

限时禁食是一种饮食模式，人们将食物的摄入量限制在一天的特定时间内。这是一种流行的健康和健身趋势，人们这样做是为了减肥和改善健康。但生物体对食物短缺的反应方式会影响卵子和精子的质量，而且这种影响可能在禁食期结束后继续存在。

The research team ran in-depth research to find out what happened when the body was provided with food after a period of fasting. They measured how the food components were split to serve the dual purpose of maintaining the body and sperm or egg production, as well as the quality of the resulting offspring, Phys.org reported.

研究小组进行了深入的研究，以了解禁食一段时间后恢复饮食时会发生什么。据Phys.org报道，他们测量了食物成分如何分割才能达到维持身体和精子或卵子生产的双重目的，以及由此产生的后代的质量。

What we found is that time-restricted fasting affects reproduction differently in males and females. Once the fish returned to their normal feeding schedule, females increased the number of offspring they produced at the cost of egg quality resulting in reduced quality of offspring. The quality of male sperm also decreased, said Dr. Edward Ivimey-Cook, from UEA's School of Biological Sciences. "These findings underscore the importance of considering not just the effect of fasting on body maintenance but also on the production of eggs and sperm."

“我们发现，限时禁食对雄性和雌性的繁殖影响是不同的。一旦鱼恢复了正常的进食计划，雌性就会增加它们生产后代的数量，以卵子的质量为代价，进而导致后代的质量下降。男性精子的质量也会下降，”东英吉利大学生物科学学院的爱德华·艾维梅·库克博士说。“这些发现强调了不仅要考虑禁食对身体保养的影响，还要考虑禁食对卵子和精子生产的影响。”