Good sperm is the guarantor of the opportunity to get healthy offspring. It is believed that a healthy man with three milliliters of sperm contains about 120-600 million sperm. However, it is often important not so much the quantity as their quality. It is known that sperm can damage many factors. Therefore it is important to know what the quality of sperm depends on.
Men's nutrition and sperm quality
If the food does not receive enough vitamins in the body, this negatively affects the quality of sperm. In the diet should be enough protein food, vegetables fresh juices. It is desirable to give up fatty foods, carbonated drinks. Negative and the effect of coffee on sperm. Leafy green vegetables, wholemeal bread, legumes, liver and yeast are rich in folic acid, which allows you to reduce the production of substandard sperm.
Bad habits are reflected in the sperm
It is known that the effect of smoking on sperm is extremely negative. In men who smoke often, the activity of spermatozoa is markedly reduced. When planning a child, it is advisable to give up smoking at least two months before conception.
The same can be said about alcoholic beverages. Sperm after alcohol undergoes significant changes. If the spermogram of a healthy man usually reveals no more than a quarter of abnormal cells, then after taking alcohol their number increases at least twice. At the same time, the mobility of both pathological spermatozoa and healthy ones decreases, which greatly increases the risk of the birth of a child with defects due to the fertilization of the egg cell by a defective male cell.
If we talk about the influence of marijuana on sperm, it is well known that a predilection for smoking this drug leads to infertility. This is evidenced by numerous studies of sperm smokers. The spermatozoa of people who smoke marijuana move too fast and reach the ovum prematurely.
Close clothing is not needed for sperm
The quality of sperm is often influenced by too tight clothing. Therefore, choosing swimming trunks, panties and jeans, you should make sure that they are not excessively warm and shy. Too tightly fitting clothing to the body negatively affects the production of sperm.
Overheating and sperm
The effect of temperature on the sperm is detrimental, so it is not worthwhile to overdo it with visiting the sauna. Even short heating of more than 39 degrees becomes deadly for spermatozoa, therefore it is not recommended to visit the steam room more often than once a month.
Influencing sperm disease
The quality of sperm can seriously worsen and diseases of the genitourinary sphere, including venereal diseases, as well as childhood diseases and serious troubles in the form of diabetes or hepatitis.
Medications that do not treat
Antibiotics, anabolic steroids and antibacterial drugs can adversely affect the "male seed", and therefore it is recommended to take them under the strict supervision of a doctor. The influence of antibiotics on sperm is expressed in a significant decrease in the viability of spermatozoa, which can lead to difficulties in conception. Therefore, after prolonged therapy, it is desirable to wait two to three months,
Why two months? There is such a thing as updating the sperm. It is clear that for conception, sperm should be as good as possible. Since a full update of the semen takes place in about two months, a man about eight weeks before pregnancy should get rid of all bad habits and start eating only healthy food.