Is there any way to improve sperm?

[MademoiselleFrenglish]

Just come back from a meeting with my gynae and she said my DHs sperm isn't the best. I can't remember all the terms as I'm in France and don't know the translations, but she something about usually men have 50 million sperm, but DH has 25 million. Then she said something about 4% being the norm, but my DH is at 3%.

Regardless, she said there was nothing he could do at all to make his levels better, but I swear I've seen the opposite said here.

So, is there anything DH can do to improve his count as well as the shape/motility? of them?

He doesn't smoke, he has a healthy diet, is a healthy weight, works out, doesn't use jacuzzis/saunas or have very hot baths, etc.

I think the 3% is morphology, just remembered the word!

Hi OP, so it sounds like he is already doing most of the things that can help with this (no smoking, no alcohol, healthy weight, healthy diet, exercise etc), some other things you could try are Zinc & Vit C supplements, some evidence shows that nuts (and especially Walnuts) can improve sperm count and quality so that may be worth a try! Good luck x

It does also depend on how old he is as it does decrease with age x

Ah fab, thank you! He does like nuts so I'll add walnuts to the shopping list and will get Zinc & Vit C supplements too. He's just turned 33! x

No problem! It’s one of those things I think where anything is worth a try and even if it only increases your chances by 1%, it’s still 1% more than before and falling pregnant is largely just a game of luck most of the time!! Good luck x

Ubiquinol

Vitimin E too I believe x

Proxeed plus only supplement clinically proven to improve sperm

Loose boxers rather than y fronts, not too much cycling. No alcohol, hot baths etc.

Yep we used proxeed too.

Plus cutting down on caffeine, getting more sleep, no laptop on lap, increased green veg and animal protein.
Didn’t retest so don’t know if morphology did improve, but I got pregnant anyway.

Good luck.

@tattychicken He switched yesterday to loose boxers and so far is loving it. Even said he felt like he was "sat on clouds"! His usual ones aren't very tight anyway, but every little helps.

@Dreamingofthree @Pomegranatemum I haven't heard of that. Do you know if I can buy it on Amazon? I'll have a look and see if I can get my hands on it, thank you!

We bought ours directly from the UK suppliers which are
https://www.logixxfertility.com/shop

(Apparently the mixture tastes disgusting btw.)

Yes you can that’s where we get ours.

only parameter it’s not proven to improve is morphology

My ExH results were worse than that, he had terrible morphology (I think 0.5%) and motility (nearly all sperm were sluggish or dead).

We took 6 months off from trying. He took a load of supplements, I think Zinc, CoQ10, magnesium (I can’t remember them all!). He also went from tight pants to loose boxers and stopped having his laptop on his lap, etc.

In our second month of trying again we conceived twins.

My OH had less than 1% morphology and turned it around to get a normal sample in less than 3 months tried for 2 years to convince my 14 week old is asleep on me right now , why he did :

• watch this video this is what he did it really helped us along with one or two other things

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• cut out all alcohol
•cut way down on caffeine 1/2 coffees a day or get rid altogether
•we hit rid of as much plastic as possible switched to metal coffee cups , metal lunch box etc

My partners count was so bad morphology wasn't measurable. Total count 5 mil . Progressive motility 1 percent. First baby was ivf but second im pregnant naturally. He was having cold showers for 2 months im convinced that helped. And proxeeed. Expensive though.

I just want to say I've got some proxeed left over if anyone wants it.

Cut out any alcohol immediately and cut back on caffeine by at least 80%.

Also get him to take CoQ10.

Worked for us!

Hello! Forgot to come back and check this thread. Thank you for all of your messages, especially the ones talking about having worse results but still getting pregnant, they're very much appreciated.

He's now fully converted to loose boxers and the Proxeed arrived a couple of days ago, he says the taste is fine, he's been mixing it with berocca.

He rarely drinks alcohol, doesn't drink any coffee (will have the odd tea in winter but only the 1 teabag reused throughout the day) and doesn't wear very tight trousers, nor puts the laptop on his lap, so that's all good. His other fertility sachets have CoQ10 in but will check how much and if it's enough.

Thank you all for your recommendations!