The recent American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, gives everyone, especially men, a whole new perspective on how to take care of their body, increase sperm production and quality, and make themselves more fertile. But what's interesting is that the supposed keys to male vitality is quite different from what you believe in.
During the meeting, researchers working on different studies and projects presented their findings to their colleagues. One of these teams came from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. Their study revolved around the effects of drinking and smoking in men who are seeking fertility treatments.
For their study, they looked into more than 750 men with an average age of 35 years old who are going to the facility for fertility procedures from 2003 to 2011. They were evaluated on two things: lifestyle and sexual satisfaction and health.
From the survey, they learned that more than 70% of them drank alcohol, and most of them reported better sexual health than men who preferred to abstain from alcohol.
As expected, in other cases, smoking can have a huge negative impact on the production and health of the sperm, as wlel as sexual health of men. In a study conducted by researchers from Sao Paulo, Brazil, for example, it's revealed that smoking can create a more serious damage to male health than developing varicose veins in their scrotum, a condition known as varicocele.
In the New York study, over 7% of smokers suffered from moderate to severer type of erectile dysfunction.
A team of researchers from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, which is found in California, discovered that men who eat meat were more than likely to have better concentration of sperm than those who practice a no-meat diet, such as vegetarianism or veganism. Comparing the sperm concentration of around 26 vegetarians and more than 440 non-vegetarians, they found out that meat eaters had a concentration of 70 million per milliliter-around 21 million per milliliter more than the vegetarians.
Meanwhile, a study conducted by the Massachusetts General Hospital among men seeking IVF from 2007 to 2013 revealed that men who consumed at least 3 cups of coffee every day are less likely to experience success in clinical pregnancy.