A study by the medical school of the University of Loma Linda, in Baja California, says it to find out how the diet affects sperm and has lasted four years.
The results seem clear, so Notice to future parents, a study associates diet with low sperm levels.
We have all heard that tobacco affects sperm quality, but until then the relationship between diet and sperm levels had not been demonstrated.
Meat-rich diets favor sperm density
But nobody tense because in all this there is good news and it seems that it is the meat-rich diet is the one that most favors sperm density.
The study was conducted with volunteers from the state of Baja California, this state has the peculiarity that a large part of the population belongs to the Seventh-day Upstarts, who are strict vegetarians or vegans since their religion considers eating meat as an act impure. The study found that those who had a diet low in meat or diets in which the meat was non-existent had significantly lower levels of sperm than those who did, about 50 million per milliliter versus 70 million. On the other hand, it seems that vegetarians have an average life span of ten years higher than the average life of the average American. (But remember that it is a life without flesh).
The study also revealed that not only the density is lower, but there is also a difference in sperm motility and only one third of the "green" sperm presented mobility. It seems that vegetarian diets slow them down.
The team believes that vitamin deficiency and the replacement of meat with soybeans could be the cause of all this. Soy contains phyto-estrogens, similar to female estrogens.
“We have seen that diet significantly affects sperm quality. Vegetarian and vegan diets are associated with lower sperm levels than omnivorous diets. It is true that it does not produce sterility but significant changes in conception, ”says Dr. Eliza Orzylowska Obstetrics at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.
In a separate study to this and conducted by Harvard University, he concluded that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits could affect fertility due to the high intake of pesticides.
"There is some evidence that both occupational and environmental exposure can have an adverse impact on male fertility." Jorge Chavarro affirms from Harvard University.
Although fruits in the diet can be beneficial due to their high content of vitamins and antioxidants, their pesticide content negatively affects male fertility.
The conclusions that I draw from this is that what is reinforced here is a balanced diet without excesses of meats or vegetables. That or that we swell meat until we have the desired children and then we go to veganism to enjoy them more. One is that he no longer knows what to do these days.
