{"id":315,"date":"2009-06-25T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/should-men-follow-a-fertility-diet-too\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T19:49:27","slug":"should-men-follow-a-fertility-diet-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/should-men-follow-a-fertility-diet-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Men Follow a Fertility Diet Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The short answer is yes, absolutely. Men should go on the fertility diet right along with their female partners, even if they don\u2019t appear to have fertility issues themselves, and especially if they do.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why: not only can diet affect such factors as sperm count, motility and morphology, but there is also the fact that 10 to 15 percent of couples have unexplained infertility, meaning the cause is unknown. Since you can never be absolutely sure of all the factors that are causing your infertility, you should do the diet together.<\/p>\n

Conception ultimately is a mystery, which is why I also believe in a \u201cthird\u201d fertility factor (in addition to female and the male fertility), and that is the combined fertility of the couple as a unit. Who knows what that is, but I have many stories to show it exists. Here\u2019s one:<\/p>\n

A friend wanted to get pregnant for a couple of years, but it just wasn\u2019t happening. She and her boyfriend checked out fine. For reasons that had nothing to do with fertility, the couple split up. She then fell in love with another man, decided to marry him and got pregnant almost immediately. She had her baby and is now pregnant with a second one. What happened the second time around? Who knows? But I believe it\u2019s the \u201cthird\u201d fertility factor at work.<\/p>\n

Another story involves a friend who conceived at 43 after years of trying after her new husband did acupuncture and herbs \u2013 and there was nothing \u201cwrong\u201d with either of them aside from the mother\u2019s age.<\/p>\n

There is also another good reason for male partners to do the diet too, and that\u2019s to provide the added support of working as a couple toward parenthood. Battling fertility issues is hard work, and harder still if you\u2019re doing it alone. Having your partner on board with you, even if he\u2019s not following the diet as closely, is really helpful.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, make sure he gets plenty of vitamin C (drink that orange juice!) and zinc (found in nuts and whole grains). Both are helpful to male fertility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short answer is yes, absolutely. Men should go on the fertility diet right along with their female partners, even if they don\u2019t appear to have fertility issues themselves, and especially if they do. Here\u2019s why: not only can diet affect such factors as sperm count, motility and morphology, but there is also the fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diet-for-men","category-male-fertility","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/6-ManEating-eatingdisorders.about_.com_.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/6-ManEating-eatingdisorders.about_.com_.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"baileycom","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/author\/baileycom\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertilekitchen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}