Guys, eat fruits and veggies to improve fertility

by Jacqueline Stenson
Men who don’t get enough produce have lower sperm motility, study says.
NEW ORLEANS – Men hoping to boost their fertility may want to eat more fruits and veggies, new research suggests.
The more produce a man consumed, the less sluggish his sperm, researchers reported at a meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Forty-eight infertile [...]

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Men: Add Pounds, Subtract Fertility

Women aren’t the only ones who have more trouble conceiving a child if they’re overweight. A new study shows overweight men have the same problem.Research supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reveals just an extra 20 pounds is all it takes to make men less fertile than their normal weight peers. The [...]

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Miscarriage risk may climb with dad’s age

NEW YORK – A couple’s risk of having a pregnancy end in miscarriage appears to rise along with the father’s age, regardless of how old the mother is, researchers reported Monday.
Their study, of nearly 14,000 women who were pregnant in the 1960s and 70s, found that the risk of miscarriage was 60 percent greater when [...]

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New male fertility test – Lack of protein P34H on the sperm explains cases of failed in vitro fertilizations

MONTREAL, May 11 /PRNewswire/ – Immucon announces that it is now offering the detection of protein P34H on the surface of the sperm through all fertility centers and andrology labs located in North America. A recent study involving three fertility centers and which results are being published this month in Fertility & Sterility, reveals that [...]

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Sperm Behavior Critical To Next Generation Birth Control, Fertility Drugs

Boston, MA (AHN) – Harvard researchers, in efforts to develop the next generation of birth control, say an extensive knowledge of how sperm and egg unite is critical to the future of fertility and birth control drugs.
David Clapham and Yuriy Kurichok of Harvard University say that the female reproductive tract is warmer near the ovaries. [...]

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Men who use the Pill can expect to regain fertility

By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor
THE effects of the male equivalent of the Pill should be easily reversible, a study shows.
The contraceptive will never be widely used unless men can be sure that once they stop taking it their sperm counts will return to normal. To test that this is true of the combinations of implants [...]

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