So, Today’s topic is male infertility including sperm count, does the male have enough morphology, are they shaped the right way and motility, can they move. Many say that fertility is 50% of the man’s responsibility and 50% the woman’s. Is that really true? so, how important is male fertility and what can you do to improve it.
Well, this is a pretty important question and one that we get asked all the time and when we pulled you guys in our group, this was one of the popular topics that came up because a lot of the times fertility falls upon the woman. They generally are the ones who feel like, there’s more work for them to do and they’re the ones who are getting pregnant and having the babies and you know still doing a lot of the childcare. So, when we look at men, you know of course sperm is 50% of the baby and we want the best quality sperm we can get, but we can’t really look at it as a straightforward 50/50 because with women, we’re looking at one egg each month. Ideally in a normal ovulation cycle, there is one dominant follicle that’s growing and developing and that will be that one egg will eventually be ovulated. With men, we’re looking at hopefully Millions, definitely hundreds of thousands of sperm in a relatively healthy male. So it’s 50% of the baby, but it may not really be 50% of the fertility factor.
So, the good news here is that generally the women are the one who are more motivated to work on their fertility and we do need to put a little bit more emphasis on the quality of that one egg. That being said there’s definitely importance in the male fertility factor. So, if we are looking at a semen analysis, there’s a few different things that they’re analyzing. First, they’re going to be analyzing the sperm count are their sperm there. If there is zero or near
zero sperm, we know that there is a major issue that’s something that is going to be needed to be investigated by Western fertility doctors or neurologists that really specialize in getting to the root of, why there’s no sperm is there a blockage and so the sperm can’t get out that might need to be dealt with surgically or is there some other factor where he’s simply not able to produce sperm and is that something that can be addressed or something that is going to have to be worked around another way possibly, even pursuing a sperm donor.
The second factor that they look at is motility, how well is the sperm able to move. If there is a decent motility factor that’s something that that we can work with. If there is no motility none of the sperm are able to move, that’s something that you know they might need to go first to a Urologist or a Western doctor to have them explore a little bit more what might be going on under there. The third factor that they’re gonna look at is Morphology, how well are the sperm shaped, is the head the right shape. They were supposed to have the acromion at at the end, that’s part of what helps it penetrate through the egg, is that the right shape is the tail the right shape are there only one tail or sometimes there can be more than one tail on the sperm and that’s what helps them move.
So, all of these different factors need to be addressed first and depending on where the male falls. We would determine whether or not it’s something that we need to actually be addressing or if it’s okay for a couple to just really focus on the woman. If it needs to be improved, you know certain lifestyle factors and general health factors from day to day. Our areas that we’ll firsts we would first evaluate in a male. How much alcohol is involved on a daily basis maybe smoking, you know things that we might need to tailor a little bit in their day-to-day life.
These are areas that we want to look at first and if things like that do not address the severity of the problem, then we want to come in and hit things a little bit harder with something like more nutrition analysis and maybe getting some herbs into the formula. So, those are the various ways that we would go about first setting up how we need to analyze whether or not it’s a case that we can work with outside of Western conventional medicine or alongside Western Convention medicine or if we really need them to start working with a specialist who focuses on in helping to identify, where the root causes and if it’s something that we can address or we actually need to go to something like a sperm donor and then different ways that we would evaluate how to help them start to improve a little bit.
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