Category Diet & supplements

Diet & female fertility: doctor, what should I eat (Chiu et al, 2018), is an excellent paper that reviewed the available research (171 references) on dietary factors affecting human fecundity (the capacity to produce offspring). They concluded: Although much work remains, current evidence…

Introduction ‘’Melatonin protects the mouse testis against heat-induced damage’’ (Zhang et al, 2020) is the review paper at this week’s ESHRE Twitter journal club. In a nutshell (no pun intended) the authors found that pre-treatment with melatonin attenuated heat-induced apoptosis…

Sperm counts have fallen by 50%–60% in developed nations since 1973. The underlying causes are a matter of both active research and heated debate, but worsening diet quality & increasing obesity could, to some extent, explain these trends. Despite ICSI…