vendredi 17 août 2012

12 weeks to improve your sperm with walnuts


You know that semen quality declined in recent years. There is a scientific based plan to improve it with 75g/d of walnuts during 12 weeks.



Table 3. Selected sperm parameters at baseline and change at 12-week dietary intervention visit
     
Walnut Group   Control Group   p-value
Sperm Parameters   Mean (std) Range  Mean (std)  Range
Concentration x 10
6
/mL
  Baseline   71.4 (61.1) 2.9-326.3 71.8 (54.5) 1-316.2 NS
   at 12-week visit  2.2 (42.6)   -6.3 (49.6)   NS
Vitality %
   Baseline   76.4 (13.2) 10-93  78.0 (14.4) 0-95  NS
    at 12-week visit  5.5 (10.0)   0.51 (7.4)   0.003
Motility % (Progressive + Non-progressive)
   Baseline   51.8 (20.6) 2-90  53.5 (19.6) 0-86  NS
    at 12-week visit  5.7 (13.4)   0.53 (10.4)   0.009
Morphology (normal forms) %
   Baseline   7.4 (3.5) 1-18.5  7.1 (2.9) 1-14  NS
    at 12-week visit  1.1 (2.7)   0.1 (2.3)   0.03
Sperm X,Y, 18 Chromosome Aneuploidy %  
Baseline    1.2 (0.4) 0.5-2.4  1.3 (0.7) 0.7-4.8  NS
    at 12-week visit  0.1 (0.4)   0.04 (0.4)   NS
 Sperm parameters are based on 107 men who provided pre-post semen samples


http://www.biolreprod.org/content/early/2012/08/07/biolreprod.112.101634.full.pdf+html?sid=b56af1a7-d146-4c80-89ee-ece35c439f76

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Urology/Urology/34239?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&eun=g432148d0r&userid=432148&email=guyandrepelouze@gmail.com&mu_id=5529932

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