Make sure he gets enough zinc and selenium and also Vitamins C and E. All have been shown to promote healthy sperm production and viability. Vitamin C helps prevent clumping of sperm and increases motility. Vitamin E has long been known as the fertility vitamin. It helps maintain healthy hormone levels. All also act as antioxidants which are pro-fertility.
…a brief article on nutritional therapy for healthy sperm: http://www.holisticonline.com/Remedies/infertility/inf_men_nutrition.htm
Get your husband to eat pumpkin seeds for a healthy prostate gland and therefore healthy semen production and also brazil nuts as they are rich in both zinc and selenium. Eating around 3-4 a days will provide optimal levels of selenium…approx 75mcg selenium per nut.
Also the herb Maca (Lepidium Meyenii) can boost sperm count, motility and semen volume. As a bonus it also increases libido.
refs: http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/health/Herb/Maca.htm
"The Lepidium Meyenii root [Maca] invigorates spermatogenesis in male [animals] by acting on its initial stages [of development,]"
Asian J. Androl., Sept. 2001.
There is also an Ayurvedic product called Speman that is being sold to help promote healthy sperm. I don’t know how effective this is. Maca should be enough along with the vitamins and minerals zinc and selenium.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes.
edit/add:
Don’t forget your own pre-natal vitamins and minerals.
Also, in addition to yourself, make sure your husband gets enough folic acid.
An snippet of info you might be interested in:
The chemical name for vitamin E : tocopherol, comes from the greek words "tokos", meaning offspring, and "phero", meaning to bear…hence why it is known as the fertility/anti-sterility vitamin.
It should help also if your husband stays away from cigerettes, alcohol and other known pollutants. Purchase organic milk as ordinary milk could be full of hormone-disrupting compounds that lower testosterone…the latter which is a key hormone for male fertility as well as libido.
All the zinc, selenium, high dose vitamin C and E in the world will not increase a man’s sperm count up to the normal range of at least 5 000 000/mL. If his sperm have DNA damage then the above therapy may improve this a little, enough for studies to show ICSI has a slightly higher success rate.
I promise you if your husband is infertile and he takes these meds and you DON’T do ICSI/IVF you still wont get pregnant.
Actually a lot of men with low sperm counts used to offer their wives a divorce (the honorable thing) or they agreed to the use of donor sperm. Now all these couples are exposing their marriages and ultimately happiness to greedy specialists.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Make sure he gets enough zinc and selenium and also Vitamins C and E. All have been shown to promote healthy sperm production and viability. Vitamin C helps prevent clumping of sperm and increases motility. Vitamin E has long been known as the fertility vitamin. It helps maintain healthy hormone levels. All also act as antioxidants which are pro-fertility.
…a brief article on nutritional therapy for healthy sperm:
http://www.holisticonline.com/Remedies/infertility/inf_men_nutrition.htm
Get your husband to eat pumpkin seeds for a healthy prostate gland and therefore healthy semen production and also brazil nuts as they are rich in both zinc and selenium. Eating around 3-4 a days will provide optimal levels of selenium…approx 75mcg selenium per nut.
Also the herb Maca (Lepidium Meyenii) can boost sperm count, motility and semen volume. As a bonus it also increases libido.
refs:
http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/health/Herb/Maca.htm
"The Lepidium Meyenii root [Maca] invigorates spermatogenesis in male [animals] by acting on its initial stages [of development,]"
Asian J. Androl., Sept. 2001.
"Lepidium meyenii (Maca) improved semen parameters in adult men."
Asian J Androl. 2001 Dec;3(4):301-3.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=11753476&ordinalpos=11&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
There is also an Ayurvedic product called Speman that is being sold to help promote healthy sperm. I don’t know how effective this is. Maca should be enough along with the vitamins and minerals zinc and selenium.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes.
edit/add:
Don’t forget your own pre-natal vitamins and minerals.
Also, in addition to yourself, make sure your husband gets enough folic acid.
An snippet of info you might be interested in:
The chemical name for vitamin E : tocopherol, comes from the greek words "tokos", meaning offspring, and "phero", meaning to bear…hence why it is known as the fertility/anti-sterility vitamin.
It should help also if your husband stays away from cigerettes, alcohol and other known pollutants. Purchase organic milk as ordinary milk could be full of hormone-disrupting compounds that lower testosterone…the latter which is a key hormone for male fertility as well as libido.
"Vitamin C and sperm quality article scientific abstracts:
Sperm swim singly after vitamin C therapy":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6842779&dopt=AbstractPlus
"Improvement in human semen quality after oral supplementation of vitamin C":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17004914&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus
"Antioxidant intake is associated with semen quality in healthy men":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15665024&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus
"Antioxidant treatment of patients with asthenozoospermia or moderate oligoasthenozoospermia with high-dose vitamin C and vitamin E: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study":
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/1028
Best wishes and good luck.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Zinc! you can get from health store.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
try to give him oat meal for breakfast. Heard that it rejuvinates fertility. You should be careful with pills because they do have some side effects.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
All the zinc, selenium, high dose vitamin C and E in the world will not increase a man’s sperm count up to the normal range of at least 5 000 000/mL. If his sperm have DNA damage then the above therapy may improve this a little, enough for studies to show ICSI has a slightly higher success rate.
I promise you if your husband is infertile and he takes these meds and you DON’T do ICSI/IVF you still wont get pregnant.
Actually a lot of men with low sperm counts used to offer their wives a divorce (the honorable thing) or they agreed to the use of donor sperm. Now all these couples are exposing their marriages and ultimately happiness to greedy specialists.