In this blog I am turning the spotlight on the guys & taking a look at male fertility & sperm health. For the women reading this you may need to approach your man on this subject sensitively; as culturally & emotionally being a "super stud" & having the ability to father a child goes to the core of a man's sense of masculinity & therefore his self-worth. This stems back to before the mid-fifties & prior to research on semen sample investigation; when if a couple were having difficulty conceiving the focus & medical investigation was directed at he women. The 'problem' was thought to be with her & if a man was able to have an erection & ejaculate it was assumed that he was fertile.
In my own personal experience when my husband's sperm analysis showed that he did not have any sperm in his semen, he was totally convinced that the laboratory had made an error which caused his sperm to vanish from the sample. He did not budge from this stance until six months later when he finally agreed to undergo another sperm analysis, which came back with the same result.Often the information needs to come from someone else other than you, so if your partner is willing to read the following article it could be a good starting point.
To the guys about to read this article I would like to thank you for taking the time to do so & for your willingness & openness.
Modern research has revealed that when couples are having difficulty conceiving at least 40% of the reason relates to male factors [egg & womb being the other reason] & some studies have indicated that as much as 75% of infertility may be due to the male.
The good news is that in the majority of cases natural therapies can significantly improve the quality of sperm parameters. For instance in a study of 51 infertile men who were treated with the herb Tribulus for 3 months, their ejaculate volume, sperm count & motility [movement] improved significantly. Their sperm shape & appearance normalized. In addition 31 pregnancies were recorded amongst their partners within 12 months of commencing Tribulus. It is important to realize that at least a 100 days of specific targeted treatment is required for improvement to occur because it takes this amount of time for new sperm to generate and mature
