Bilateral Research Cooperation with Quebec Cross-species combination of cohort and intervention studies to assess common metabolic factors related to infertility and the use of functional lipids for its treatment.

Infertility has become a global epidemic for overweight women and high yielding dairy cattle and has ao been related to increased levels of non-esterified fatty acids (FA) in the follicular fluid. In a cohort study with human follicular fluid and dietary intervention study with dairy cattle we hypothesize that mono-unsaturated FA can partially alleviate the detrimental effect of non-esterified FA.