Previous studies have also suggested a link between weight loss and increased semen quality, but these studies have had so few participants or such modest weight loss that it has been difficult to draw conclusions from them, she explains. During the 52 weeks, the trial lasted following the weight loss, the men maintained the improved semen quality. But only the men who maintained the weight loss: after a year, these men had twice as many sperm cells as before their weight loss. Diet and exercise, combined with earlier obesity drugs, usually yield perhaps a 10 percent weight loss in patients. “I don’t think I ever imagined we could reach this degree of weight loss with a medicine,” she said.

Source: The Guardian June 02, 2022 05:01 UTC