Re: Taking Care of your Fertility (How's Mead score in this area?)

I would say the asthenozoospermic men were so unlucky to inherit
defective mitochondria which don't burn energy very clean way. Like
if you use an old/broken car which produces a lot of toxic exhaust
gas. The "air pollution" is in this case called reactive oxygen
species (ROS) and it of course preferentially attacks the most
unstable FAs like DHA. Mead acid should be the least (among PUFAs) to
be attacked and converted to a toxic lipid peroxide but this has not
been experimentally tested yet and I doubt it will be anytime soon
unless I do it by myself ;-) But Monty has mentioned a pregnant cat
study in which kitten was born to an EFAD mother. So I believe it's
doable even with Mead acid only or Mead acid + trace AA. You may not
get many twins but once born the baby should be much more resistant to
different stresses. Perhaps the best way is to avoid omega-6
restriction when you want to reproduce but keep it low otherwise and
get the necessary omega-3 for baby brains from unrefined plant sources
such as avocado only ...

Taka

On Nov 29, 3:34 am, "ironjust...@xxxxxxx" <ironjust...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 28, 8:53 am, "mike V" <mi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:One
study in asthenozoospermic men reported no increase in sperm or
seminal
plasma DHA concentrations with dietary supplementation up to 800 mg/
day for
3 months. If fish is the food of love, men will have a new line <<

Why .. would it / fish .. ?

Because fish / it contains DHA .. ?

They didn't test that / fish but they DID test supplementation of DHA
which didn't .. seem .. to .. work.

Based on that they say .. "fish eating looks like it might work" ..

Oxidation is a .. **problem** / " increased peroxidation has been
suggested" .. and fish eating has been shown to increase oxidation.

Sooo .. one could say .. "there could be oxidation in the willy
destroying DHA" .. as opposed to .. "throw some oxidation at the
oxidative stress related disease" ..

Imho ..

They might have even said .. "throw some sort-chain fatty acids at it
which are shown not to increase oxidation but actually have been shown
to lower oxidation" ..

Who loves ya.
Tom

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Do they not know their sht / dispute oxidation ? / fish.

Stupid or .. conspirators ..

"The chief differences in fatty acid concentrations were for DHA and
saturated fatty acids. DHA was significantly reduced in all men with
subfertility, regardless of the category, and saturated fatty acids,
particularly stearic acid, increased. Reasons for the lower DHA
concentrations are not clear, but increased peroxidation has been suggested.
However, in one study reporting reduced DHA in sperm of asthenozoospermic
men, DHA was reduced in seminal plasma, but not in serum, suggesting that
diet was not the reason for the reduced DHA.

These data support previous studies suggesting that DHA is important in the
healthy functioning of sperm in humans and animals. Whether increased
dietary DHA would increase its concentration in human sperm, as has been
reported for turkeys and stallions, remains to be fully investigated. One
study in asthenozoospermic men reported no increase in sperm or seminal
plasma DHA concentrations with dietary supplementation up to 800 mg/day for
3 months. If fish is the food of love, men will have a new line."

Aksoy Y, Aksoy H, Altinkaynak K, Aydin HRR, Ozkan A. Sperm fatty acid
composition in subfertile men. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids
2006;75:75-79. [Pub Med]

MikeV
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