Jesse and Theresa encourage couples to rediscover the joy of sex, as they believe that powerful orgasms are more likely to create babies. If you accept that stress is a major contributory factor to male infertility, then it stands to reason that putting yourself under pressure to get pregnant will only makes things worse.įor example, couples are commonly advised to have sex when the woman’s base temperature drops slightly, which suggests she is ovulating, but, says, Johnson, “Timed intercourse, that feeling of not being in control, can be very counter productive, as for many men it really affects their feeling of what being a man is.” They suggest acupuncture and counseling to work on these deeper issues. They also believe that stress and-more controversially-negative life experiences from the past can be a major cause of ‘blockages’ which can manifest as infertility for men. ![]() Jesse Johnson, who, with his wife, Theresa, runs The Fertile Soul, a holistic fertility practice based outside Chicago, for example, advocates a diet rich in anti-oxidants and free from heavily processed foods and sugar as the easiest and quickest ways to boost fertility. ![]() These include everything from vitamin and dietary supplements to acupuncture, stress counseling, meditation looking at pornography before sex-and even applying ice to one’s testicles. With average male sperm counts down by as much as 50% (environmental factors including oestrogen in drinking water are blamed by researchers) since World War II, men are increasingly embracing a wide range of holistic and alternative treatments to boost both the quality and quantity of sperm they produce. Indeed, for most of human history, the ‘blame’ for infertility has been largely laid at the door of women-you don’t read much about ‘barren’ men in the Bible or Shakespeare-but in recent years, men have become more willing to accept some of the responsibility. For couples who are having trouble doing so, the quest to reproduce can quickly become an all-consuming problem, and one that is as expensive and stressful as it is emotionally draining and drawn-out.įertility treatment is particularly hard on women.
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