This is a must watch – the guys from Try Guys, go about testing there Sperm and it turns into a competition.
This is a must watch – the guys from Try Guys, go about testing there Sperm and it turns into a competition.

What does a would-be father’s waistline have to do with the health of his future children? More than you’d think.
It could be the incentive that helps men stick to their weight loss resolutions, says Professor Rob McLachlan, director of Andrology Australia, the national centre for male reproductive health based at Monash University.
Not long ago, the reason children of overweight parents became overweight themselves seemed simple – if the parents’ extra kilos were the result of too many kilojoules and too little activity, it would be easy to “transmit” those same habits to their children. But now there’s growing evidence that some of the influences that shape children’s weight and health can start before they’re born or even before they were conceived – and that their father’s health can play a part.
“We know that a woman’s health and weight affect her unborn baby’s health – if a woman is obese or has raised blood sugar or high blood pressure in pregnancy, she can pass on a risk of these same problems developing in her children. But evidence is now emerging that a man’s lifestyle habits and weight before conception can make a difference too – and if he’s obese at the time of conception it can increase the chances of his children developing weight problems, ” McLachlan says.
He points to a 2015 study at the University of Adelaide in which researchers took male mice from the same litter and overfed half of them so that they became overweight. When they compared the offspring of these two groups of mice, they found that the offspring fathered by the overweight mice were themselves overweight.
“This means that obesity can be imprinted on the next generation through the father, and while this and similar studies are in mice, not people, it’s logical that the same pattern can occur in humans,” he says.
Meanwhile, in new research reported in the journal Cell Metabolism in December, Danish researchers comparing the sperm cells of lean men with those of obese men found there were differences in these cells that could influence the appetite of the next generation.
So how can too much flab affect the DNA of sperm?
It’s to do with epigenetics, explains McLachlan – the ability of lifestyle habits and environment to cause genes to switch on and off. This creates changes to the way the DNA code is read and the effects can flow on to our children.
Are these changes driven by obesity itself or the diet that underpins it?
“That’s not clear – but studies in women suggest that both are important,” says Professor Michelle Lane, a senior research fellow with the University of Adelaide’s Gamete and Embryo Laboratory.
“But the good news is that you can turn the ship around by changing lifestyle habits – and that’s a powerful message,” McLachlan says.
“Sperm takes two months to develop which means that the most important time for men to improve their health and lifestyle is in the months before conception. This is a great reason to be quitting smoking, drinking in moderation, eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly and losing a few kilos if they are overweight,” he says.
“You don’t have to lose a ridiculous amount of weight to make a difference – when the process of weight loss starts, sperm quality begins to improve.
“It’s a precious thing to create a child and while our parents might have thought about what school their future children would go to, parents today need to think about their health before they conceive, especially as we’re much heavier than we were 15 years ago and we’re having children when we’re are older. It needs to be a much louder message.”
As for alcohol and its effects on unborn children, the advice for women is that it’s safest to avoid it altogether in pregnancy and when trying to conceive, but with men – who metabolise alcohol differently – alcohol in moderation is OK, McLachlan says.
This doesn’t apply to cigarettes. Besides affecting fertility in both partners, smoking can increase the risk of health problems in children not just when women smoke in pregnancy but when fathers smoke before conception.
“Cigarettes put stress on the integrity of DNA and some studies have found that the children of fathers who smoke have a higher risk of health problems including cancer,” he says.
“The bottom line for couples wanting to have children is that the best chance of conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy is for both partners to make healthy lifestyle choices,” Michelle Lane says.
– Sydney Morning Herald
A bit of a laugh for a Tuesday. This ad was written and filmed by an amateur film maker for this years 2016 Super Bowl. Think this one, which has made the finals is relevant for Vitamenz!! Enjoy!
Having a baby is an exciting thing, I guess. At least it seems these people are pretty jazzed about it.
But when you find out you’re pregnant, how do you tell all your loved ones and distant acquaintances on Facebook?
These people seem to have figured out some pretty good ways to get that good news out there.
These 14 pregnancy announcements are hilarious, and it’s hard to tell if some of these people are comic geniuses or just happened to stumble upon something great.
You decide.
Older women desperate to become mothers could be helped by a revolutionary technique that makes their eggs young again.
Doctors in Nottingham, UK, want to turbocharge poor-quality eggs by using young, energetic cells taken from elsewhere in a patient’s ovaries.
The many women in their 40s who turn to donor eggs would be able to use their own instead. Younger patients could also benefit, with early research suggesting the technique could boost the odds of pregnancy five fold.
Professor Simon Fishel, who has asked the fertility regulator for permission to try the Augment treatment, said: “It’s a potential paradigm shift.”
However, there are questions about the safety of the technique, which could cost as much as £14,000 ($NZ30,000), and has yet to be approved for use in the US, despite being invented there.
There are also concerns that by manipulating eggs, the technique crosses a crucial ethical line. It might strengthen the case for tweaking eggs in other ways, creating “perfect” babies made to order by hair or eye colour.
One of three treatments being developed by Massachusetts-based OvaScience, Augment aims to revitalise old and poor quality eggs by giving them a power boost. An egg’s energy comes from mitochondria, tiny “battery packs” that weaken with age.
OvaScience believes these can be supplemented with young, healthy mitochondria taken from a bank of very immature eggs that lurk on the edges of a woman’s ovaries.
These extra “batteries” should give the egg the energy it needs to develop into an embryo.
The technique is already being trialled in Turkey, Dubai and Canada, where the world’s first Augment baby was born last summer. Natasha Rajani, of Toronto, who had spent almost four years trying for a baby before Zain was born, said: “I am still in awe. It is something we had never thought would really happen for us.”
When doctors in Dubai carried out a trial on women in their late 30s who had been through IVF multiple times, pregnancy rates jumped five fold.
Professor Fishel, who co-founded the world’s first IVF clinic and is president of Care Fertility, Britain’s biggest chain of fertility centres, has asked the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority for consent to treat 20 women.
Each would have a sliver of tissue removed from the edge of their ovaries using keyhole surgery. The immature eggs would then be removed and raided for their mitochondria.
These would then be injected into the woman’s “normal” eggs when she is undergoing IVF, in a bid to pep them up and boost her odds of motherhood. Professor Fishel, who holds a professorial chair at Nottingham University, said: “It may provide new, revolutionary options for women to have their own genetic child.”
However he cautioned that Augment will not help rid eggs of genetic problems that arise with age.
Professor Charles Kingsland, of the Hewitt Fertility Centre at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, said: “It is very interesting and, crikey, if it works, it will be amazing.
“It could be a real breakthrough. Like most things though, it might come to nothing.”
Josephine Quintavalle, of the campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said:
“There is great focus at the moment on manipulating and playing around with eggs but a much simpler approach would be to educate women to really understand their biology and ensure society allows them to have children when they are younger.”
– Daily Mail

Every day I thank someone for the beautiful gift of my children. It was not without its ups and downs, 7 miss carriages, 2 ectopic pregnancies, 2 tubes removed and 4 rounds of IVF it took to create # 2 of our brood.
Why is it that so many people in this world take having babies for granted. It is getting worse on a global scale and will continue for the foreseeable future.
Fertility is a nasty beast, it is a not pleasant nor is it sensible. We are taught from a young age that our pure presence on this planet is to work hard, re-create and hopefully produce the leaders of tomorrow and yet somewhere along the way we forget about those that have come before us.
It is debilitating, it saps us of our energy and all the while we have friends and family around us seemingly being able to give birth at the drop of a hat. I love that a lot of my family and friends have never experienced what we had too, what so many people around the globe have had to endure just to get the pleasure of seeing a first smile, a first tooth, a first try scored in a game of rugby, a first goal in a game of netball – a first endearing hug from a Grandchild to a Grandparent.
Those eyes that I look into – the ones deeper than the ocean itself reminds me of where we came from of who ultimately loves us and who created us. Sometime those people aren’t with us anymore and it hurts and it’s tough.
We have walked a strange path over the last few years, a path that I constantly have to remind myself is perhaps what is intended, as I always say “ It is, what it is” but I would like to say today to all our friends and family on this page, tomorrow is another day a battle will be raging and you will succeed – I promise you, you will because you deserve too, and to those who have created us, and to those that are no longer with us – for today we remember your smile. RIP Mick!
Below is a rant of mine (Aaron) on another Social Media outlet – thought I would share.
No.1 – I have learned through our business that Men are simply useless, We have had guys ring up for a replacement bottle to replace the one they started 18 months prior. A product like Vitamenz is only ever going to help if your partners are consistent with it – taking the prescribed doseage everyday is going to dramatically help increase the 3 main groups but also quality. That is point No.1 there is NO POINT otherwise.
No. 2 – basically the condition of a man is ultimately a true reflection of what his sperm is doing. If he is slow and overweight – guess what his sperm wont burst up your fallopian tube peeling off its Superman Cape as they go.
No. 3 – Sperm quality is the underlying parameter that you should be most concerned about. DO NOT focus all your efforts, or his for that matter on Count, Motility and Morphology – all you are doing is being pigeon holed into a very decreasing fertility scale. Ultimately it is the quality that will be reflective of a successful pregnancy – and ultimately taking it through to a healthy baby. Several of you ladies on here get very upset when you see you embryo quality decreasing over a period of days from Fertilisation through to grades 1 – 5 and painfully you watch them disintegrate before your eyes. Fragmenting and disappearing away. 50% of the time the reason for that is your partners Sperm QUALITY – just because an egg fertilises DOES NOT MEAN your partner has been helpful OR successful.If cell division does not occur because the underlying DNA structuring of the sperm cell isn’t firing – its all over.
No . 4 – it is now clinically proven that 40% of fertility issues relate directly to Sperm Health & 50% and perhaps up to 65% of all Mis Carriages can be attributed to Sperm Health or lack thereof. Ref below if you would like to read – I have many more clinical studies, ask and I can PM them over
When you spend upwards of $12,000 on a round of IVF – why do your partners not support the process 110% – they have to do everything they can in their powers to be part of the process. Please please please stop thinking that because the doctor told them a Semen Analysis came back OK that – then they can doing nothing and think that they are invincible – no they can not!! Diet and lifestyle changes alone can change the course of your fertility journey – they don’t have to take a product like ours, but it is a damn site easier too rather than try and get all that nutritional value everyday in what we eat and drink. Thats why its called a dietary supplement.
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v14/n11/pdf/nm.f.1895.pdf
Fertility problems are often seen as a ‘women’s issue’, but biologically speaking, at least half of these problems can be caused by sperm. Simple lifestyle changes in diet and health can have a tremendous effect on the quality of sperm that a man produces.
Unhealthy Sperm Leading to Miscarriages
In the past, miscarriages have been mostly attributed to a failure within the egg rather than the sperm. This is due to a number of reasons, the most prominent being that during a menstrual cycle it is normally only one egg that is ovulated, yet during the process of the sperm reaching the egg, a process of elimination makes it possible for the (theoretically) fittest or healthiest sperm to reach the egg first.
But as the leading cause for miscarriages deals with chromosome problems, and half of a developing baby’s chromosome’s are attributed to the father, new research is suggesting that sperm health can also be a significant factor when it comes to miscarriages. That is why it is so important to focus on the health of your sperm, because you want to make sure that if a pregnancy does occur, that pregnancy will be carried to full term.
Decline in Male Fertility
Over recent years, leading scientists in the field of human fertility have warned of a significant decrease in the fertility of men when compared to their fathers and previous generations. Many factors such as being exposed to chemicals like pesticides, or even more sedentary lifestyles that mean you sit for too long throughout the day, may be contributing to this trend. This is why it is now, more than ever, so important to be aware of your own fertility health and what you can do to improve it.
Have a look at this you tube link where Dr Bondar and the team a D TV have a few wise words of wisdom!!
(CNN)I recently saw a 50-year-old man and his 35-year-old wife in clinic who have been trying to get pregnant for the past 18 months. The couple told me that conceiving their daughter, who is now 7 years old, was a piece of cake, and within a couple of weeks of trying they were pregnant. But that was then. Now, their efforts at a second child had been fruitless for well over a year and they needed help.
Had this couple faced conception difficulties even a few decades ago, the blame for their infertility would have fallen squarely on the woman. But modern science now definitively tells us that the male partner is responsible in up to 50% of cases of couple infertility.
Furthermore, in this case the mother had just hit the magic age of 35, and now carried the stamp of “advanced maternal age,” making her less likely to conceive.
But what about dad? Is he of “advanced paternal age”? He’s 50, after all, and studies over the past two decades tell us that paternal age is something we need to think about, both as physicians and as men, because the “male biological clock” is indeed ticking. For this couple, dad certainly could be causing, or at least contributing to, the conception difficulties just by virtue of his age.
So, what’s some of the evidence for a male biological clock and how should this change how men approach their lives and their interactions with health care?
We’ve known for a long time that a man’s testosterone, often considered the hormone of male vitality and youth, declines progressively starting in his 30s. Low testosterone levels are associated with increased cardiovascular risk and mortality, and changes in bad cholesterol.
Low testosterone levels can also decrease sex drive, worsen erectile function, and affect fertility, and men with higher testosterone levels have lower risk for some of the above conditions than their counterparts with lower testosterone levels.
From the standpoint of fertility, older men are less likely to conceive a child, take up to five times longer to conceive, are more likely to initiate a pregnancy that results in amiscarriage or stillbirth, and are more likely to have a child with a neurological or behavioral disorder.
Older men also have more mutations in their genetic code than women of the same age or younger men, and these can be passed on to their offspring. Men who are older have fewer sperm and their sperm quality is lower than that of younger men — more of their sperm have damaged DNA, which can decrease their ability to initiate a pregnancy.
More recent research has shown that infertile men are at increased risk for cancer and other medical conditions, including cardiovascular disease, endocrine, genitourinary and skin diseases. More generally, infertile men, regardless of age, are more likely to have low testosterone levels as well. Thus, a man’s fertility status, particularly if detected early in life, can be a marker of his general health.
While we are learning about men’s health more rapidly now, research on men is significantly behind — a decade or more — similar research in women, and there are far fewer urologists than gynecologists who can counsel male patients and educate the public and other physicians.
In the case of the 50-year old father, he didn’t come to see me seeking advice about “advanced paternal age.” He came because he wanted to have another child with his wife. His wife knew that she might be less fertile because she was 35, but neither had heard that the same might be true for him.
Without broader public and physician knowledge of the relationship between male age, fertility, hormonal status and disease, men will continue to avoid doctor visits. As it stands, men are 80% less likely than women to go to the doctor. This may be related to a lack of emphasis on preventive care in men, in contrast to women, who are advised to have regular gynecological visits starting in their teens.
Because of our growing knowledge about the relationship between male age and disease markers that can become apparent early in life, physicians have a responsibility to inform the public. Physicians treating couples for infertility should encourage male partners to be evaluated by a urologist, and young men with fertility or hormone-related issues should be checked out.
We should all become aware of the risks of male aging beyond common conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. Having children is very meaningful for many men, and looking forward to a long and healthy life will allow them enjoy fatherhood.
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