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Episode 14: Roughly Half of Infertility Involves Male Factor. So Why Are You Doing All the Work?
You've been tracking, testing, supplementing, and changing everything. His side of the investigation? One semen analysis that came back fine.
Roughly half of infertility cases involve a male factor, and a standard semen analysis doesn't test DNA fragmentation.
In this episode I cover what a semen analysis does and doesn't look at, why sperm reflects roughly the last 70 to 90 days and not the last pregnancy, the four things I look at on his side (oxidative stress, heat, metabolic health, and alcohol), and the questions to bring to your partner and your doctor.
The questions from the episode…
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