Healthy Sex A Day

According to science 🧬, frequent sex may improve a man’s sperm quality, reduce DNA damage to sperm, and increase fertility.

The Human Reproduction and Embryology researched that men who have sex daily, or ejaculated daily, had more viable and higher quality semen after seven days than men who did not have sex.

Purpose

The aim of this prospective descriptive study was to evaluate the efficacy of reducing sexual abstinence as a strategy to decrease sperm DNA fragmentation.

Methods

Men with one or more of the following characteristics were included in the study: older than 44, smoking more than 10 cigarettes per day, with a body mass index over 25, diabetes mellitus, varicocele, a previous chemotherapy treatment, severe oligozoospermia, prostatitis, cryptorchidism, having a partner with recurrent miscarriage and/or implantation failure, poor embryo morphology and/or fertilization failure. Patients were asked to produce a semen sample after 3 to 7 abstinence days which was subjected to a sperm DNA fragmentation test. When DNA fragmentation was above or equal to 30 %, it was considered to be altered. Patients with increased DNA fragmentation were asked to produce another semen sample following a “one abstinence day protocol”. This protocol required producing up to three semen samples with 1 day of abstinence and measuring sperm DNA fragmentation.

Results

Four hundred and sixteen patients produced a first semen sample after a sexual abstinence of 3 to 7 days. Sperm DNA fragmentation was altered in 46 samples (11.1 %). Thirty five patients with increased DNA fragmentation samples completed the “one abstinence day protocol”. DNA fragmentation decreased to normal values in one of the three attempts in 91.4 % of the patients: 81.3 % in the first attempt, 12.5 % in the second try and 6.3 % in the third.

Conclusions

This approach could be a simple, low-cost and effective way to decrease sperm DNA damage to normal values.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800522/

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