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Eating nuts significantly increases the quality of a man's sperm, a Spanish study found
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An experiment has shown that nuts improve sperm count, vitality, swimming ability and shape
Nuts are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and folate, which in other studies has also been beneficial to spermatozoa.
For the 14-week study, 119 young men aged 18 to 35 assigned to two groups. One ate a normal western diet, while the other consumed the same diet with 60 grams a day of mixed almonds, hazelnuts and nuts.
Comparison of the two groups showed that men who had nuts added to their diet had 16% more sperm vitality was improved by four percent, motility – swimming ability – by six percent and morphology (form) of one percent
Men in the nut group also showed significantly reduced levels of DNA fragmentation. which is closely related to male infertility.
Spanish authors said that the results of the study were not sufficiently substantiated to induce men to eat nuts if they want to conceive.
But the principal investigator, Dr. Albert Salas-Huetos, of the Rovira i Virgili University in Reus, said: "The evidence accumulates in the literature that healthy lifestyle changes like following a healthy diet could help with conception – and of course, nuts are a key part of a di and. "
The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and of Embryology (Eshre) which takes place in Barcelona.
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