Tips for male fertility?

[Onaji]

I was wondering if anybody has tips for male fertility What lifestyle, foods, and nutrients contribute to healthy sperm count and quality? What effect does CR have on sperm? I've been struggling with trouble getting my wife pregnant.

[Moderation]

The first thing I would do if I were in your situation, would be to get tested medically for anything like low sperm count, motility problems and sperm quality. As well as testosterone level. 

I would definitely avoid smoking, refined sugars and alcohol. My diet would be 1/3 fats, mostly from fish oils and vegetables, like avocado, 1/3 protein from fish, grass finished beef and vegetables like beans and 1/3 carbohydrates from cruciferous vegetables, or, green, leafy vegetables, and other healthy vegetables. Everything must be organic. I would avoid chicken and eggs because of the high levels of estrogen in those items.

I don't believe calorie restriction is a good idea in order to get your wife pregnant. But I don't think that you should overeat, either. Eat until you're just full -- then stop.

I can't tell you much more because I don't know the whole story about your situation. You may be 76 years old and your wife 70 in which case nothing short of a miracle is what you need.

Everything costs money. Doctors, organic foods, etc. If you can afford it, take your wife for a two week trip. Stay at a farm house in Sicily.  i'd be happy to accompany you annuity help you out. my fee is very reasonable. You guys should be breathing a lot of fresh air and being very receptive to lots of lovemaking during her time of ovulation; but no sex unless she is ovulating. And, of course, don't use a condom or contraceptives. Another thing that might help is for you to take charge and be rhe man. Give her a half hour of foreplay without touching her clitoris or vagina. Arouse her sexually for that half hour, until she almost goes out of her mind with desire.  And then, when she's about to explode, do your dirty business as many times as you want. She will thank you for it.

[IgorF]

Most of the timeline our ancestors were balancing between starvation and "enough". Fertility increases when there is enough energy and building blocks for the processes of building new life to start. It is a bad thing to be done - a "false start" because a lot of resources (very valuable outside of civilized life) will be waisted. Femailes in species like ours are paying uncomparably higher price, so many species hiding / use special signaling about femail readiness to start the reproduction cycle. For males the situation is much easier and enough energy and enough protein is enough, no need to accumulate stores that will support many months of pregnancy. But. Enough means - not what we think about it but what is body's perception and here could be a culprit. Even if there could be positive "paper" balance of both things it could be the case that body does not feel it like this, so many things are just not working. But let's assume there are no complications, the person is healthy and young enough to run the cycle. Doing severe CR for a long time can easily shift the balance towards a starving phenotype (as a part of this all cells are "empty" of spare fats), so getting back to optimal readiness could take many months (or few years) until enough cells in the body will signal "we do have spare energy" and brain areas detecting this will switch on thousands of cascades that prepares body's reproductive biochemistry.

I am cutting out worse cases where there is malnutrition behind CR, it happens easily if no batteries of tests every quarter are done (not only cheap cbs, lipids and so on but aminoacids and their metabolites, vitamins and so on).

If I understand how it works in the real life, any doctor who will investigate the patient's case will pay attention on body state from starvation perspective and if there are signs/suspicions she will need to rule this out before any heavier solutions will be assessed.

So depending on the context - CR if not really mild could be a barrier itself. and if done improperly, thus there is malnourished person - it posess a risk for a child and this is itself could be an evolutionary adaptation in prevention of conception.

All is IMHO of course, based on own research and common wisdom.

Br,

Igor

 

[IgorF]

Here is a generic, potentially close to the topic study from 1951: "Effect of Semistarvation on Human Semen" by Harold B. Hulme, M.D.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0015-0282(16)30603-3

(scihub has it)

 

36 volunteers after 3 months of 3500kkcal/day where their states were assessed, stabilized, etc were dropped to approx 1600 for 6 months and then allowed to refeed at 2400-3400. Their sexual function was significantly decreased but afterwards came to normal and many of them had healthy children (cutting out hard to assess possible epigenetic changes if they were).

I liked this study because it is a kind of integrated thing, done on humans, not a detail on one single building block of higher level (e.g. sperm count) or lower level (ROS, Ca-ion channels, glucose burning efficiency in spermatozoids during their rush, etc).

Br,

Igor

[IgorF]

And how it works "under the hood", hormonal viewpoint:

Caloric restriction: Impact upon pituitary function and reproduction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634963/

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Caloric restriction probably exerts its effects through a myriad of highly complex systems, including neuroendocrine
feedback, inflammatory response, etc.

Br,

Igor