Pomegranate juice may be beneficial for your man's little swimmers, reports a study in Clinical Nutrition. The juice improved markers for fertility in male rats, including motility and sperm count, and decreased the number of abnormal sperm. Antioxidants in pomegranates may guard against damage to the fatty acids in sperm, which are essential for fertility.


PubMed article for background: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18222572

Clin Nutr. 2008 Apr;27(2):289-96. Epub 2008 Jan 28

BACKGROUND & AIM: Pomegranate fruit is inescapably linked with fertility, birth and eternal life because of its many seeds. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of pomegranate juice (PJ) consumption on sperm quality, spermatogenic cell density, antioxidant activity and testosterone level of male healthy rats.
METHODS: Twenty-eight healthy adult male Wistar rats were divided into four groups; each group containing seven rats. One milliliter distilled water, 0.25 mL PJ plus 0.75 mL distilled water, 0.50 mL PJ plus 0.50 mL distilled water and 1 mL PJ were given daily for seven weeks by gavage to rats in the first, second, third and fourth groups, respectively. Body and reproductive organ weights, spermatogenic cell density, sperm characteristics, levels of antioxidant vitamins, testosterone, and lipid peroxidation and, antioxidant enzyme activities were investigated. All analyses were done only once at the end of the seven week study period. Data were compared by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the degree of significance was set at P<0.05.
RESULTS: A significant decrease in malondialdehyde (MDA) level and marked increases in glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and catalase (CAT) activities, and vitamin C level were observed in rats treated with different doses of PJ. PJ consumption provided an increase in epididymal sperm concentration, sperm motility, spermatogenic cell density and diameter of seminiferous tubules and germinal cell layer thickness, and it decreased abnormal sperm rate when compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that PJ consumption improves sperm quality and antioxidant activity of rats.

Sweet!

Well, I know what DH is going to be drinking from now on!!! :giggle
Now if I could get him to quit smoking again that would be great... smoking isn't the greatest thing to do when TTC for a male. Grrr

Got this info. in an e-mail the other day, thought you'd all like it since Shannon posted the pomegranate juice info.!

Eggplant, Avocados and Pears target the health and function of
the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs.
Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it
balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? .... It takes exactly 9 months to grow
an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic
chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern
science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs
increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm and
swell to overcome male sterility.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Grapefruits, Oranges, and other Citrus fruits look just like
the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the
breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

nice to know!!

I love pomegranates. We had a pomegranate tree in our front yard when we lived in Mexico. I loved eating those things! totally non related, but kinda sort of..