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Folic Acid For Men's Fertility
Human reproductive health continues to be the focus of medical science,as infertility has become a common illness.
Anne Clark will take to the Fertility Society of Australia's three-day meeting, starting in Brisbane today. A study of almost 800 men who presented to a Sydney assisted reproduction unit found a "staggering" 59 per cent had nutritional deficiencies, including lower than normal levels of folate or vitamin D.
Just
like
women,
men
too
should
take
diet
rich
in
folic
acid
and
other
vitamins
if
they're
trying
for
a
baby,
that's
the
message
of
a
fertility
specialist.
What's
more,
men
should
stop
smoking,
reduce
coffee
and
alcohol
intake
if
they
are
planning
for
a
child.
Clark, Fertility First medical director, said a similar number of the would-be fathers had high levels of damaged sperm, a key factor in infertility normally associated with infection, advanced paternal age or smoking. According to the researcher, 123 volunteers agreed to make lifestyle changes and to take dietary supplements for two to three months before starting fertility treatment.
Of those, almost three-quarters had a significant reduction in the number of damaged sperm and 36 achieved a pregnancy, including 18 without using assisted reproduction technologies, the research found. None of the 36 pregnancies miscarried, despite almost a third of the men's partners being aged 38 or older.
Damaged
sperm
not
only
reduce
a
couple's
chances
of
getting
pregnant,
but
miscarriages
are
more
common
and
babies
are
more
likely
to
be
born
with
genetic
diseases,
Clark
said.
In
order
to
be
able
to
enjoy
a
healthy
life,
one
must
take
care
of
the
various
aspects
including
the
reproductive
one.
"Thinking about getting pregnant is a combined project. Fertility is a couple issue, it's not a woman's issue," the Courier Mail quoted the expert, as saying. "The traditional sort of foods that we ask women to eat to improve their chances of having a healthy baby, men need to be told the same. They make up half the baby, so they need to be making changes, too," the expert added.