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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, helps a reader delve into why his sperm health and quality is not up to the mark for making a baby, and that boils down to his diet and lifestyle.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2fpjab4a  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00As we know that we are focusing on how to reverse a bad quality sperm to make it good quality sperm.

00:08Last week, we talked about how the warmth of the testicle can actually reduce the sperm production.

00:16But this week, we're going to talk about what you put in your mouth orally or in your diet or in your lifestyle

00:22is going to have an impact on your fertility and how we're going to reverse that.

00:30Interestingly, this is based on a study that is looking at Mediterranean diets.

00:40It is noted that people who live around the Mediterranean area actually have significantly better quality sperms.

00:48And how is it better? It's better in number.

00:50So the number is significantly more than 15 million.

00:54And motility is more than 40%.

00:56And lastly, normal morphology with head, neck and tail is more than 4%.

01:02And further analysis of this is noted several things.

01:07Number one is actually the diet.

01:11In the Mediterranean diet, it's actually filled with more fruit and vegetables.

01:15So fruit and vegetable contains significant amount of antioxidant like vitamin C and vitamin E and selenium.

01:24And that contains also some nuts and beans.

01:27And that is particularly helpful for the actually antioxidant effect of spermatogenesis.

01:35Second part of Mediterranean diet actually contains quite a number of fish.

01:41And especially fish that contains fatty acids.

01:46The good fatty acids like omega-3 is particularly good for spermatogenesis.

01:52And the other thing, which is the shellfish.

01:55Shellfish such as oysters contains a lot of zinc.

02:00And that itself is crucial for spermatogenesis.

02:03Apart from that, it is also noted that less stress in the Mediterranean lifestyle is significantly better for the spermatogenesis as well.

02:14So what is bad for spermatogenesis?

02:17In fact, it is compared with Western American diet,

02:21it is noted that high alcohol consumption, i.e. more than 2 units per week,

02:28is going to suppress spermatogenesis.

02:30Apart from that, smoking.

02:32Smoking actually contains a lot of chemicals that can suppress the spermatogenesis

02:38and cause fragmentations of the DNA in sperms.

02:44And lastly, the actual pesticides.

02:48When pesticides is used quite regularly in fruit and vegetables, in Western diets,

02:53and then that is noted to show a significant impact on the suppression of spermatogenesis.

03:01There's also other study that noted that lifestyle such as stress can actually cause spermatogenesis suppression.

03:12First of all, you need to have enough hydration.

03:16Drinking more than 2 to 2.5 litres of water is particularly good for circulation.

03:20Number 2 is exercise and not having weight gain.

03:25Because when somebody has a significant amount of weight gain,

03:29overweight can actually cause significant conversion of testosterone to the actual estrogen,

03:36and that is not particularly good for spermatogenesis.

03:39For the following week, we're going to talk about another reversal of the sperm production,

03:46which is for men who is having a U-turn because after a vasectomy,

03:51they plan to have a reversal.

03:53And how is that going to impact on spermatogenesis?

03:56Stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

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