A new study found that eating walnuts may improve sperm quality. This animal study on mice supports a previous 2012 study, which showed that men who added 75 gram (2.5 ounces) of walnuts per day to their diets had improved sperm vitality, motility, and morphology compared to men who did not. The benefits of walnuts likely comes from the high …
Prescription medications can adversely affect male fertility.
Researchers at Stanford determined that certain classes of antihypertensive medications have a deleterious effect on male fertility. Using a national database of insurance claims filed in the US for patients with employer-provided coverage, they extracted data on men who had taken antihypertensive drugs, whose diagnosis or treatment codes suggested infertility. They compared the …
The bottom line: Don’t talk on your mobile while it’s charging and never use it within 50cm of your groin and you shouldn’t keep your cellphone in your pants pocket.
A groundbreaking study done in Israel, albeit on a very small sample group, has found a stark correlation between sperm abnormalities and cellphone use. The main dangers are using it …
I am seeing more and more otherwise healthy men with reduced sperm parameters, usually motility and morphology for which there is no apparent etiology.
I am convinced that environmental and external factors are to blame, drugs, pesticides, hormones in livestock and laptop computers. Now, according to an article in BioNews there is an additional possible factor, cell phones.
Keeping mobile …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, former partner and Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
In an abstract …
I have been noticing it for the past ten years: the sperm parameters in otherwise healthy men have been declining. In fact, the World Health Organization recently downgraded the normal values for a semen analysis.
An article in the July 16th edition of the Wall Street Journal reports on the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
In a study of men requiring surgical …
According to a study reported in the May 2013 issue of Fertility & Sterility, the isotonic lubricant Pre-Seed did not compromise quality.
This is important because of the wide use of vaginal lubricants to decrease vaginal dryness and pain during intercourse. In fact, women trying to conceive may have increased intimate dryness associated with the stress associated with timed intercourse …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
In a study of triathletes, weekly cycling …
According to an article in USA Today, healthy young men who watch a lot of TV and those who skimp on exercise have lower concentrations of sperm in their semen than guys who watch less and move more, a new study finds.
The study is small and does not prove cause and effect. But it adds to evidence that …