Sexual Health
How to improve sperm quantity and quality? What should we eat to improve sperm quality
Although the sperm is small, it has a great ability of transection. It penetrates cervical mucus and swims into the female fallopian tube. A healthy adult male can "discharge" hundreds of millions of sperm per ejaculation, but not every sperm is "brave and fighting". "The number of sperm is amazing, but the life is fragile." In medicine, sperm vitality is often used to evaluate the quality of semen, mainly refers to the percentage of sperm in the semen that shows progressive movement. Sperm vitality is mainly affected by the following aspects.
Age: Generally speaking, male sperm vitality changes with age, and 20-40 years old is the best time of vitality, which is the golden age of male fertility. After the age of 40, the sperm vitality of men decreases at a rate of 0.7% every year, and abnormal sperm increases. Over the age of 60, 85% of sperm may be abnormal.
Exercise: Research shows that men are overweight, groin temperature rises, and sperm growth is impaired. Proper exercise can help improve sperm vitality, balance body hormone levels, especially maintain the secretion level of male hormones. However, vigorous exercise such as marathon and long-distance cycling may affect the growth environment of sperm.
Temperature: The habit of wearing tights, sauna, bathing, and putting notebooks on the feet for a long time leads to poor heat dissipation in some parts, increased scrotal temperature, and decreased sperm production and vitality.
How to improve the quantity and quality of sperm?
1. Regulating diet: Eating more green vegetables will help improve sperm quality. Because green vegetables contain vitamin c, vitamin e, zinc, selenium and other ingredients that help sperm growth. Nuts and fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and should be eaten more. These are conducive to the growth of sperm cells.
2. Attention to sports: men are overweight, groin temperature rises, sperm growth is damaged, and infertility. Therefore, weight control within the standard range can improve sperm quality. However, the exercise intensity is moderate. Intensive exercise will raise the temperature and destroy the cool environment required for sperm growth.
3. Supplementation of trace elements: zinc supplementation has certain curative effect on oligospermia and azoospermia. The number of sperm increases significantly after taking the medicine. This method can effectively treat low sperm motility.
4. Arginine supplementation: Arginine is an essential component for spermatogenesis. The content of amino acids in the semen of patients with oligospermia is significantly lower than that of normal men.