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Taking nutritional supplements: l-arginine l-carnitine and vitamin a TAKING NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS: L-ARGININE L-CARNITINE AND VITAMIN A
L-Arginine
L-arginine is an amino acid found in many foods. The head of the sperm contains an exceptional amount of this nutrient which is essential for sperm production. As long ago as 1944, researchers found that an arginine-free diet - even for just a few days - prevented sperm maturing correctly.
Since then, a great deal of research has shown that L-arginine supplementation should be considered seriously when there are problems with sperm and male fertility. According to one study, supplementing with L-arginine can help to increase both the sperm count and quality. Other research showed that sperm counts doubled after supplementation and there was also an increase in the number of pregnancies.
Warning
People who have herpes attacks (either cold sores or genital herpes) should not supplement arginine because it stimulates the virus.
Your partner should take 1 000 mg a day.
L-Carnitine
Another amino acid called L-carnitine also appears to be essential for normal functioning of sperm cells. High levels of L-carnitine have been found in sperm cells and it seems the higher the level, the better the sperm count and motility.
Supplementing with L-carnitine over four months helped to increase the number of normal sperm in men with a high percentage of abnormal forms, and to increase their sperm count.142
Your partner should take l00 mg a day.
Vitamin A
This vitamin deserves special mention because there is a lot of confusion about its use before and during pregnancy. The key point is that it is important to have good amounts of vitamin A at the point of conception because it is essential to the developing embryo.
Recently, concerns have been raised about the use of vitamin A while trying to become pregnant and during pregnancy. These problems were brought to light by a number of women who regularly ate large amounts of liver during pregnancy. (In the past, women were told to eat liver when pregnant because it is a good source of iron. However, liver also contains large amounts of the animal form of vitamin A, retinol, and it is this that appears to cause the problems.)
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that pregnant women who take high doses of retinol every day increase their risk of having a handicapped baby. The danger threshold appears to be daily doses in excess of 10,000 IU, which results in a one in 57 chance of having a handicapped baby (compared to those who take just half that dose).
Interestingly, it seems that vegetable sources of vitamin A (beta-carotene) do not cause any defects in an unborn child so eating carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, spinach and broccoli is much safer than eating animal sources of vitamin A.
One of the dangers of giving health advice is that the public reacts by swinging from one extreme to another. This has been the case with vitamin A because the usual recommendation now is to take no vitamin A during pregnancy. Yet the consequences of a deficiency of vitamin A during pregnancy can be just as devastating.
Vitamin A has antioxidant and protective properties similar to those of selenium, which protect against cell mutation. It is essential for healthy eyes and, in animal studies, a deficiency of vitamin A has produced newborn animals with no eyes, eye defects, undescended testes and diaphragmatic hernias.
Benefits of vitamin a in pregnancy
In developing nations, deaths in pregnant women are far from rare and may be as much as 50 to 100 times higher than in industrialized countries. And yet studies show that by taking 42mg of beta-carotene daily, this death rate can be reduced by 49 per cent. By taking vitamin A, as retinol, there can be a reduction of 40 per cent.
You should take up to 5000 IU of Vitamin A a day.
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