From sad to super sperm in 90 days

 

 

The characteristics that should be present in the ideal sperm, that is, with excellent morphology, motility, and number are the following:

 

  • Oval head and regular contour

  • Single straight tail

  • Fixed nucleus

  • Correct DNA

  • Transparent colour

 A heathy egg is a fussy egg!

No pressure boys, but when the egg has developed beautifully, throughout the 3-month fertility-optimising window, no doubt following the Making Healthy Babies program, chances are your sperm may be experiencing continual rejection. 

 Occasionally, I hear that my client’s partner is unlikely to make changes… to any aspect of his reproductive health. I want to tell her to only accept a sperm that is worthy of her egg, but often nature has the selection process covered.

Situations where the female has to own fertility success or failure when 50% of the DNA is contributed from both partners is not acceptable.   Sperm DNA is affected by many contributing factors –   semen microbiome, antioxidant health, nutrient status, environmental toxins, heavy metals, parasites, stress.

Faulty sperm, if accepted by the egg, can continually undermine a viable pregnancy resulting in miscarrriages and other complications.

 

90 days to perfect sperm

 One positive outcome when confronted with a poor sperm analysis is that sperm takes around 90 days to develop from scratch, so what changes you make in diet, lifestyle, detoxing and supplementation can alter the sperm count, shape, and motility, in short time.

One sperm is all it takes to fertilise the egg.

Why so many when one will do the job?

It is a race, only the fastest swimmer (motility) with the best shape (morphology) gets to penetrate the outside layer of the egg declaring it the champion. A prize indeed!

Creating a hard-fought contest is nature’s way of ensuring the survival of the fittest.  Each ejaculate produces around 100 million sperm. The sperm need to navigate the vagina, through the fallopian tube and be there, ready and waiting for the ovulated egg. Many sperm can survive for up to five days, but it is best to count on two days. Ramping up sexual activity two days before ovulation is being ready and prepared.

 

Why the demise of healthy sperm?

 

Like many other examples in nature, humans are under threat from our less-than-healthy environment. Modern food contains herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, unless it is organically grown. It is of a much poorer quality than the diet our grandparents consumed - it’s increasingly processed, nutrient-depleted and sugar-laden. Did you know that conventional broccoli has 33 pesticide residues – 5 are carcinogens, 6 are neurotoxins, and 15 disrupt hormones?

 

Other contributing factors include:

  •  Endocrine/hormone disruptors -think plastics, phthalates

  •  Stress - physical, mental, emotional

  •  EMF ‘s – electro- magnetic frequencies

  •  Rising rate of prescription drugs

  • Smoking, alcohol and drug use

  • Poor diet

  • Lack of exercise

  • Inadequate sleep

  • Being overweight

  Creating champion sperm

What greater gift to your child than undertaking preconception care preparation? Allow 3 months to grow quality sperm.  Spermatogenesis takes around 3 months from the get-go. What you choose to do in this timeframe will impact the quality of form and movement and greatly increase sperm numbers.

  •  Eat real food

  •  Tend to relationships

  •  De stress -  yes, you can change or adjust how you live and work

  •  Green-up your environment, exchange commercial personal- care and cleaning products to making your own using essential oils and base products like vinegar and bi-carb soda.

  •  Ditch any products containing fragrances (endocrine disruptors)

  •  Get that laptop off your lap

  •  More sex and more ejaculation… prolonged abstinences decrease sperm quality and can lead to oxidative stress reducing quality of sperm

  Let’s investigate

 In the event of a conception being difficult to achieve, an investigation will assess number, morphology and motility. Know that the situation can dramatically change over the course of a few months. Prior to each assessment be sure that you are well and in good form. Even a recent stressful event prior to collection can impact the sperm result.

 

 

 Nutritional support to the rescue!

  • DHA omega 3 fish oils and cod liver oil (flavoured or in capsules), wild salmon can improve sperm morphology and motility

  • Vitamin C can improve sperm quality and protect against DNA damage

  • Zinc and folinic acid increases sperm volume

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