Male fertility is so often overlooked, with women taking most of the responsibility. Jill Glover explains how Acupuncture and Chinese herbs can help
With the focus this week on Men’s Health, it is a good moment to flag up the importance of paying attention to male fertility. Men with only a 4% sperm count can be told that that’s ‘normal’. I don’t think the word ‘normal’ is a very useful word in fertility. If a woman gets pregnant and miscarries, hardly anyone checks the sperm, but this can be an issue.
Male fertility is declining rapidly, causing approximately 40% of couples’ difficulty in conceiving.
What Affects Sperm Quality?
A man’s sperm may be abnormal, may lack the vitality to swim to the egg, or he may have low numbers of sperm. All these factors reduce your fertility as a couple.
Environmental hormone disruptors, lifestyle choices, drinking too much, smoking and a poor diet all affect the health of the sperm. So a pregnancy might not thrive if the sperm is of low quality. It might end early.
Men’s sperm are created day by day, so improving these lifestyle choices can have a real effect. Often, I let women know that their partners should also be tested and potentially have some acupuncture to help.
Seeking Help
The hardest thing about treating male fertility is getting men on board. Women are often reluctant to request their partner is tested or treated.
The medical profession doesn’t prioritise testing men and has no treatment to improve sperm quality. They only have intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), which puts their female partner through the invasive regime of IVF.
Acupuncture treatment and Chinese Herbs can offer so much more.
Power of Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs
Both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine have been shown to improve male fertility. Treatment improves your sperm count, vitality, and normal sperm. It also improves your libido.
I have also created four unique Chinese herbal prescriptions to help improve different types of male fertility.
Jill Glover, Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist & Clinic Director
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