This video discusses the concerning decline in male sperm count over the past decades, noting a drop of over 60% since 1974. The presenter explains that male infertility is linked to overall health and premature death. The video then explores potential causes like ibuprofen use, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, smoking, pesticides, and stress, offering actionable steps to reverse or slow this trend, including dietary changes, exercise, and specific supplements.
Key Takeaways
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Male sperm count has dramatically decreased by over 60% since 1974, which is a significant concern for fertility and overall health.
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Decreased male fertility is a warning sign of overall declining health and is associated with an increased risk of premature death.
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Chronic ibuprofen use, even for as little as 14 days, can disturb testosterone production in healthy men and may contribute to male infertility.
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Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) found in plastics, canned goods, and household cleaners, especially during prenatal and early pregnancy, is a major factor in rising male infertility.
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Smoking and exposure to pesticides are significant contributors to male infertility due to the numerous toxins they introduce into the body.
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Chronic stress interferes with the hormones needed for sperm production, lowering sperm count and quality.
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Improving diet by eating healthy, antioxidant-rich foods, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding processed foods, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine can significantly improve fertility.
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Regular physical activity can boost the body's production of antioxidant enzymes, which help protect sperm.
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Key supplements that may support male fertility include Vitamin D, Tribulus, Zinc, Ashwagandha, and Maca.
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Considering natural painkillers like curcumin or boswellia instead of ibuprofen might be beneficial due to ibuprofen's link to male infertility.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what's hot in the news what's
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new in research or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better and this morning I'm
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diving into a subject that affects all
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of our future fertility and since we're
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on the heels of Father's Day I'm going
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to focus on male fertility and man oh
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man the latest statistics are shocking
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male sperm count is down a lot by at
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least
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50% and some findings report up to
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62.3% and it isn't new we started
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noticing this before
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1974 2 years before I opened the Good
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Earth and 12 years after Rachel cars
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Carson wrote The Silent Spring Book
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warning us of all these environmental
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problems in 1974 two doctors in Iowa
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named Nelson and B compared contemporary
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data with two historical sets one that
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showed a dramatic shift over the
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previous two decades so clear back in
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1951 they had samples that had
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107 million sperm by
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1970 that figure had dropped more than
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50% to just 48 million now it still
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sounds like a lot but having dropped by
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50% more than 50% it's stunning then in
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the '90s even the doubters were
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realizing there is a definitely a
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problem since there was just this huge
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body of scientific evidence showing this
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decline current research in the Oxford
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academic MC and the journal Urology they
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report the CL decline is
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62.3% overall and this is according to
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many studies in this one 43,000 men 50
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different countries finding was shocking
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this analyzed just over four decades and
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there was that over 60% decline in total
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sperm count importantly the studies
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published after
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1995 it seemed to be
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accelerating you know and male fertility
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has other implications as well it is a
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sign of overall health and vitality so a
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decrease is associated with an increased
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risk in premature death it's a warning
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for us all like the canary in the coal
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mine it should be a warning I also was a
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canary in the M shaft with insulin
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resistance at age 8 from antibiotic
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overuse in a refined diet and then PCOS
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and you know then it's gets to be like
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quacamole but when you listen to the
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warning signs and you make the changes
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you reverse the problems so it isn't
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much of a discussion the consensus is
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overwhelming yes it is happening but why
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and what are we going to do about it so
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we can reverse it or at least be able to
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put the breaks on this trend before we
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are truly the endangered species so
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today that's what I'm going to cover
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what's causing it and what we can do to
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reverse it or we're in for bigger
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trouble than you can imagine so of
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course the factors that are causing us
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still have to be investigated researched
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double blind Placebo controlled but as
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slow as science goes we may be extinct
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before they come to an consensus but
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researchers certainly have listed areas
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of
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concern and no surprise to me and all my
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preventive colleagues the potential
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causes include increased rates of
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obesity poor diet lack of exercise
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stress sleep and exposure to
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environmental toxins like enderin
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disrupting chemicals Plastics and
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pesticides sides all the things I wrote
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about in my Amazon bestseller in nine
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categories get out of hormone hell six
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Heavenly steps to lose weight feel great
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and reverse
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aging so here are some of the biggest
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culprits that are being scrutinized and
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should be avoided number one and this is
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kind of kind of
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surprising
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ibuprofen in 2018 danus researchers
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published evidence identifying chronic
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ibuprofen use as a possible male
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infertility trigger in a random
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controlled trial clinical trial using I
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ibuprofen for as little as 14 days two
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weeks it Disturbed testosterone
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production and these were in healthy men
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between 18 and
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35 okay so number two endrin disrupting
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chemicals those edc's probably the worst
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Defender prenatal endrin disruption by
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all of these because these chemicals
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exposures are one of the major reasons
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scientists believe male infertility is
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on the rise so avoid plastic never in
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the microwave or oven of course remove
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BPA bisphenols from your life check your
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canned goods even your pop use safe
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household cleaners use
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the
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ewg.org
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website to learn about safer options you
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can't avoid everything no but you sure
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can cut back a lot and that helps
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avoiding phalates triose sand yeah the
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stuff that's in your antibacterial gel
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hopefully you haven't been slathering
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yourself in it for the last four Co
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years use safer options alcohol silver
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among other choices our endocrine system
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regulates all your hormones all your
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biological processes and when those
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edc's mess up that endocrine system yes
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you can have serious developmental
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reproductive neurological and immune
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effects unfortunately damage is thought
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to be the most serious during pre
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prenatal and early pregnancy
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exposures men and women alike and these
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are really horrible because even in the
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most minute doses of exposure can have
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serious effects and may not show up for
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decades okay third thing quit smoking I
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mean
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really smoke is just another Toxin and
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you know smoking harms about every
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single part of your body including cling
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male fertility there's like 4,000 toxins
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in tobacco smoke which combine to harm
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male fertility so if you're a smoker
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because of the toxin exposure just
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expect problems even men with prenatal
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exposure to smoking had a 20% lower
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sperm count as adults fourth thing limit
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exposure to pesticides like those EDC
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you can't avoid them completely but you
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sure can reduce your exposure first step
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is to buy only
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foods that well
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buy according to the dirty dozen you
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know that's if you got to
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buy conventional produce at least do the
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Clean 15 but the dirty dozen 2024 list
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strawberries spinach leafy greens grapes
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peaches pears Peppers nectarines apples
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cherries
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blueberries those need to be organic I
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mean I recommend all organic whenever
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possible but at least these all these
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pesticides can affect male fertility and
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is it a coincidence that male
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infertility has increased the last four
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decades but the same time these powerful
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pesticides have been used
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without with abandon
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okay okay number five scale back on
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stress men are stressed tend to have
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lower sperm count and quality stress
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just interferes with the hormones needed
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to produce sperm and it's
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anthropological if ancient humans were
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under stress famine War migrations the
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last thing you want to be doing is
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carrying babies with you so maybe due to
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cortisol prolonged stress raises
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cortisol which affects other hormones so
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you might want to do things like taking
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a
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walk meditating breathing gentle
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exercise writing in a journal instead of
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ruminating getting it on paper so your
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mind can relax okay so now what you can
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do and finally what you've been waiting
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for the supplements so first of all read
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my book get out of hormone hell you can
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buy it at the shop and then do the 10day
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Heavenly cleanse four times a year every
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season vanilla or delicious chocolate I
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have put all the compounds I could that
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your body needs to detoxify those
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pesticides those toxins those poisons
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that your liver and kidney they need to
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do their jobs properly okay that's my
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number one and then number two improve
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your diet and maintain a healthy weight
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women waistline need to be under 35 men
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waistline under 40 so eating a healthy
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diet lots of vegetables some fruits
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super rich in
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antioxidants that improve sperm health
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and surprise the same foods are going to
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be good for weight control that help
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with infertility then as I outlined in
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my book get out of hormone hell a
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healing diet is loaded with healthy
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protein like wild caught fish vitamin c
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and e from fruits and vegetables and
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healthy fats like olive oil these
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delicious foods fight inflammation
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promote sperm count and keep the
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hormones
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optimal you know my favorite place on
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the planet right now is aeri Italy where
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15% of the population is over
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100 no cataracts and they're in a sunny
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place no heart disease matter of fact
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their cardiovascular profiles are like
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20 year olds and no broken bones no
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osteoporosis none of that stuff we
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consider normal AG Gene is not different
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genes they're same as you and me just
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different
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lifestyle
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so we can do it we need to bring a Cheri
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here you know and of course on the other
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hand the same things that will pack on
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pounds will affect fertility as well
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this is like a high fat processed Meats
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like hot dogs deli meats SA message
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refined sugar and Grains and if you're
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trying to conceive you'll also want to
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avoid alcohol caffeine and drugs
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including marijuana smoking or
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otherwise okay third thing get moving
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physical activity increases your body's
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production of powerful antioxidant
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enzymes which can help protect sperm
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number four stay cool benefits haven't
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been fully proved but wearing loose
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fitting
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underwear and not being in hot tubs and
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saunas a lot and avoiding warm objects
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like a laptop that may help number five
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those antioxidants are good I mean get
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them in your food but also more vitamin
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C that is going to help take care of
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that oxidative stress which is like
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resting of your
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body that definitely can affect things
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okay so some evidence indicates that
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taking antioxidant supplements may help
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improve male fertility specifically
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vitamin C has been researched you've got
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to get enough vitamin D number six get
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your levels checked we want between 60
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and 80 that's a good level number seven
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Tribulus Tribulus is a medicinal herb
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that has been used to enhance male and
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female fertility alike studies in 26 and
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2017 showed that it works number eight
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zinc getting enough zinc is like the
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Corner Stone for male fertility number
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nine ashwaganda I love ashwagandha take
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it myself every day ashwagandha wania
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snora is so good for
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stress it's an auratic herb been used in
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India H 5,000 years perhaps longer 2013
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study involving males with low sperm
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counts showed taking it for three months
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they
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had 167% increase in sperm count and
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motility a 57% increase and the American
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neurological Association the
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AUA they studied um ashwagandha and
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found that it increased testosterone
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level by
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14% compared to a placebo pretty good
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number 10 MAA MAA is a popular plant
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that comes from Peru it's been used for
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libbido and fertility in men and women
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alike um 2015 study showing taking about
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100 or 1.75 gram so that's going to be
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about three capsules of maca every day
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for 3 months increased sperm count um
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they've done that in animal studies as
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well and then a
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11 you might want to opt for curcumin or
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boswellia as natural painkillers because
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of the ibuprofen link to male
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infertility of course a bad diet is
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probably the biggest reason for chronic
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inflammation so eating an
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anti-inflammatory diet will also lower
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inflammation in your knees your hips and
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Male Infertility
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Jul 24, 2024
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The latest statistics are shocking! Male sperm count is down … a lot! By at least 50% and some findings report up to 62.3%. and it isn’t new. we started noticing this in about 1974- 2 years before I opened the Good Earth and 12 years after Rachel Carson wrote the SILENT Spring warning us of environmental problems.