Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Male Infertility and Junk Food Junkies

We often focus on the diets of women who are undergoing fertility treatments or are trying to conceive; however, it seems that men need to watch what they eat as well.

Doctors at Harvard University have concluded that all those trans-fats men eat in fast food, junk food and the like may be contributing to higher-than-normal levels of male infertility.

The Harvard study analyzed the sperm of 188 18-22 year old males.  Those males who ate diets that could hardly be deemed healthy seemed to be on a trajectory to have male infertility in their futures.

To keep the study participants’ results “clean”, Harvard’s researchers ensured that no medical factors could be contributing to any of the sperm quality results. 

The study’s results were presented recently at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, where one of the study’s leaders noted that “…a healthy diet seems to be beneficial for semen quality.”

Our suggestion?  Obviously, we’ve all heard that “we are we eat”, and it’s essential that we take that to heart every day, whether or not fertility factors are involved in our lives.  Besides, it’s prudent and responsible to maintain the healthiest lifestyle possible for our future children.

If you’d like to learn more about male infertility and you can travel to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area, please contact the Reproductive Science Institute’s offices today.


http://www.rsiinfertility.com/