Dads 2B
For couples wishing to conceive, it is crucial that both parents prepare for conception and optimize their health to enhance the chances of a successful pregnancy and birth. This preparation is increasingly important today, given the rising rates of infertility, miscarriage, and birth defects.
Many men trying to become fathers face health challenges due to poor diets, nutrient deficiencies, too much toxin exposure, obesity, and stressful or inactive lifestyles. These issues can harm sperm health, reducing the amount, movement, and overall quality of sperm, making it harder to fertilize an egg. As a result, a father's sperm health plays a big role in infertility and miscarriage rates.
Sperm take about three months to fully mature. Normal semen contains around 40 to 300 million sperm per milliliter, but only 100-200 will reach the egg. Sperm carrying female chromosomes are larger, slower, and live longer than those carrying male chromosomes. The thickness and pH of vaginal mucus can also affect sperm, with thicker mucus making it harder for male sperm to reach the egg due to their shorter lifespan. A low sperm count is considered between 10 and 20 million sperm per milliliter.
Mothers2B highlights the importance of optimizing health before conception, not just for mothers, but for fathers too. Healthy sperm production, count, and motility, along with minimal damage to chromosomal DNA, are key to improving fertility outcomes.
Here are key factors affecting sperm health, vitality, and quantity:
Poor diet and nutrient deficiencies: Lack of vitamins A, C, D, E, B2, B5, B6, CoQ10, amino acids like arginine, taurine, carnitine, antioxidants like glutathione, essential fatty acids, selenium, and zinc.
Obesity: Excessive body weight reduces sperm production and mobility.
Stress and lack of exercise: Elevated stress and insufficient physical activity can lower sperm count.
Toxic exposure: Contact with metals, solvents, degreasers, herbicides, pesticides, alcohol, and cigarette smoke can damage reproductive hormones, DNA, and alter gene expression in sperm.
Prospective fathers should complete our Diet, Lifestyle, and Toxin (DLT) assessment to evaluate their diet, lifestyle, and toxin exposure.
The Diet, Lifestyle and Toxin (DLT) Self Assessment aims to prepare your family for life’s greatest blessing: a successful conception, pregnancy, and birth, and ultimately a healthy baby. We believe that the greatest influencing factors on your health and the health of your baby involve your diet (D), lifestyle (L) and toxin (T) exposure, and we have created the DLT Self Assessment for you to assess these aspects of your life. There is no better time to adopt a healthier change!
Prospective fathers should complete our Nutrient Deficiency Symptom Assessment (NDSA) to identify nutrient deficiencies.
The Nutrient Deficiency Symptom Assessment (NDSA) helps you identify your deficient nutrients. This is very important as the nutrients in your body are essential to your and your baby's health. The NDSA provides three pages of the essential 29 nutrients the body requires, each with associated deficiency symptoms for you to work through carefully. Find out what nutrients you may be lacking and what you can do to reverse those deficiencies and support your symptoms for optimal health.
Our male preconception package offers essential nutrients to support healthy sperm production, count, and motility.