Start Eating These Foods to Improve Your Sperm Count & Motility

Men, if you and your partner are looking to extend your family, look no further than your diet for assistance.

What you eat affects all aspects of your health, including reproduction.

All parents want to give their kids the best start in life — and that begins before your child is born.

It starts in both the parents and results from your health markers.

Many men and women suffer from reproductive challenges — and I know what that’s like.

As a sufferer of endometriosis, I had about enough of people telling me my diet wasn’t good enough.

Those who know me well do not doubt that my diet and exercise have been consistent throughout my life.

As an older mum, I can see I did many things incorrectly. But, if I could do it all again, I would follow the advice I’ve accumulated through years of trial and error.

Sometimes diet can’t do a lot when suffering from a debilitating disease, and medical intervention is necessary.

Although this may be the case for you, you can still do a lot to attempt pre-preparation for optimal success — and a happy, healthy baby.

Perhaps we can’t control the disease much with diet, but then the quality of a woman’s eggs and a man’s sperm count can do better in the race when we eat well (and exercise too).

There is nothing to lose if you can give yourself a better and more successful chance to conceive a healthy baby.

Of course, the main benefits will be your health, and we all want to live a healthy and disease-free life.

A western diet, smoke, pollution, and your place can affect sperm count.

A study assessing these factors involved a 14-week randomized clinical trial of 119 healthy men aged 18 and 35.

Participants were still allowed to eat their westernized diet but added in 60 grams of mixed almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts.

The other group ate the western diet for comparison purposes but did not consume the nuts.

The assessment didn’t only consider the sperm count and the sperm DNA and several other complicated molecular factors.

Sperm and blood samples were analyzed at the beginning of the study and then after the 14 days.

It’s surprising that despite still eating a westernized diet — the men who ate 60 grams of nuts, as opposed to those who didn’t eat the nut mixture, increased their sperm count.

The differences had hit all the points these researchers were monitoring, from sperm count, motility, vitality and morphology.

Now, don’t get too excited because these men had a reduction in levels of sperm DNA fragmentation. So, it’s not all bells and whistles here.

So, the nuts did improve certain aspects of sperm — but not everything.

It shows that diet has a significant impact — both right and wrong- on male fertility.

Whether or not you go down the pathway of medical intervention, plan well ahead with your partner to make the necessary lifestyle and nutritional changes to give your fertility the best shot and create a healthy baby.

I’d also like to mention that nuts are part of a Mediterranean diet supported by health professionals for their wealth of nutrient-rich foods.

If you are stuck on what kind of food plan to follow — look no further than this one.

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