Male Infertility: Antioxidants Spice Up Sluggish Sperm

By Keith Scott MD The incidence of male infertility has increased dramatically over the past century because of environmental factors such as synthetic estrogens, pesticides, heavy metals and other pollutants. These agents inflict oxidative damage on the highly susceptible developing sperm. The good news is that the use of supplementary dietary antioxidants to treat oxidative stress-induced male infertility is yielding very good results. Until recently conditions such as varicocele,