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I had a test recently and I have 0% "normal" sperms, when 4%-14% is the normal range. Pretty radical. The doctor said to take vitamins, to get testosterone to n
by Inviz 4y ago
I had a test recently and I have 0% "normal" sperms, when 4%-14% is the normal range. Pretty radical. The doctor said to take vitamins, to get testosterone to normal level, and to excercise. In other words not much to do
- bhouston 4y agoYour sperm does reset ever 75 days. Depending on the problem, it may be fixable. Exercise and raising testosterone will have a meaningful effect. Also check the various products you are using for endocrine disruptors and also you can go organic in terms of food (avoids pesticides, which are suspected of playing a role.)
- Arete314159 4y agoI am not a man, but this reminds me of a time years ago when I started to have allergic reactions to things several times a day. My allergist put me on a strict elimination diet of triggers. I could only use unscented products for bathing and laundry, organic food only, and I even had to get rid of my teflon pans and use only stainless steel or cast iron. It sucked but it did seem to help, maybe you could try something like that too.
- guessbest 4y agoI got rid of my teflon, but I switched to galvanized copper. Its easy to clean.
- bombcar 4y agoI had some relatively severe allergic reactions to (apparently) enzymes in laundry detergent, once we stopped that it went away, and doesn't seem to come back even with minor enzyme encounters.
- balaji1 4y agoIs there any anecdotes or data about the impact of sitting too much? And screen time?
- mrguyorama 4y agoWell if you spend too much time sitting and don't reduce your calorie intake to match, you get fat. Being fat generally does bad things to your health, and one known example of that is that being fat reduces your fertility.
- throwaway290 4y agoBeing fat correlates with reduced fertility. It may ultimately be caused by whatever thing that results in reduced fertility, but there is no evidence of being fat causing reduced fertility.
- jackmott42 4y agoOrganic foods still use pesticides, sometimes even chemically identical ones to non organic, just sourced via allowed methods.
- tomstokes 4y ago> Exercise and raising testosterone will have a meaningful effect. To be completely clear: Taking testosterone will actually worsen fertility. TRT will severely reduce fertility. Lifestyle changes that improve testosterone (diet, exercise, physical activity of any kind) are correlated with increased fertility though.
- eddsh1994 4y agoThanks for sharing, I think I’ll check myself too now.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>to get testosterone to normal level, How does one do that exactly?
- HideousKojima 4y agoLose weight, eat less sugar, be more physically active/work out, and avoid endocrine disruptors like xenoestrogens. The last one is probably the hardest to do since a lot of plastics etc. contain them.
- andai 4y agoGetting plenty of deep sleep is crucial too. Sleep deprivation is murder on test levels.
- someweirdperson 4y agoTemperature, too. Production is external to provide a lower than body temperature habitat. Wrong clothes and seat heating are a bad idea.
- swarnie 4y agoLess soy?
- HuShifang 4y agoNo, you'd need to be chugging multiple jugs of soy milk a day for that to (maybe) matter. Better would be to lift, eat better, sleep, etc.
- danielschonfeld 4y agoYou’ll be surprised. Some vegan friendly foods which are delicious are packed with more than 1x your daily value in a single serving. So if you eat two a day for instance the levels of estrogen you’re pumping in are quite significant and very very easy to do.
- andai 4y agoAm I reading this right that the average person has 86-96% abnormal sperm?
- fullstackchris 4y agoAlso interested... seems insanely high
- gjsman-1000 4y agoIf normal is 86-96% “abnormal,” it would seem abnormal is normal and normal is abnormal. ;)
- delecti 4y agoEnglish certainly has a bad habit of conflating good/bad with common/uncommon.
- mc32 4y ago...doesn't that mean that those ("abnormal" ones) are the normal ones and the "normal" ones are the abnormal ones?
- Inviz 4y agoThat's what I gathered. The report had a set of different potential abnormalities , by intersecting them all the number gets kind of low. Here's a photo of the report if you're curious https://imgur.com/a/LtG2KVb https://imgur.com/a/LtG2KVb
- Izkata 4y agoAh, that just sounds like "no one is average" and that anecdote about pilots.
- ddorian43 4y ago> to get testosterone to normal level > In other words not much to do Isn't this contradicting? What were your test/free-test levels?
- Inviz 4y agoWell, there's not much to do in a sense of a one weird trick. No easy way out here. Mine was 290/190 at the age of 33. Not zero, but a lot of people are alarmed way before reaching that low
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- nscalf 4y agoThat seems like quite a lot to do. What I get from that advice is a recommendation to effectively change all of your lifestyle.
- mywittyname 4y agoI'd argue TRT (to raise testosterone) is a pretty drastic recommendation. Not that it is bad or dangerous. It just points to the OP being at the stage where their hormones needs to be medicinally managed.
- nscalf 4y agoI'm not sure that's what they were recommended. If you fix your diet, get to a healthy weight, and start weight lifting, all of the research I've seen suggests that will positively affect your free testosterone. That's what I thought the doc meant given the surrounding advice, but I could read their comment either way now that you've mentioned TRT.
- defgeneric 4y agoNo doctor would ever recommend TRT for increasing sperm as it literally shuts down sperm production (LH, FSH are near zero on TRT).
- fahadkhan 4y ago> get testosterone to normal level I'd be keen to what normal levels are and what you were instructed to do to get them to normal levels?
- dibt 4y ago> In other words not much to do Do you believe you were already as healthy as can be? Those seem like reasonable suggestions. If you were already very fit, the doctor's suggestion might have been discouraging. If you weren't, sounds like there's a lot that can be done. A sedentary lifestyle with poor nutrition can have a big impact on your health. EDIT: unfit = zero resistance training, zero cardio, and more "food products" than "real" food.
- guessbest 4y agoDo you mean morphology? Supposedly, it can be improved using the following: > Research has not shown a clear relationship between abnormal sperm shape and tobacco, alcohol, or caffeine use, though some studies suggest that smoking can impair fertility. https://www.reproductivefacts.org/news-and-publications/patient-fact-sheets-and-booklets/documents/fact-sheets-and-info-booklets/sperm-morphology-shape-does-it-affect-fertility/ https://www.reproductivefacts.org/news-and-publications/pati... The vitamins suggested are Vitamin C and L-Carnitine, correct?
- andai 4y agoCan they still fertilize the egg? What % of people came from abnormal sperm?