Vitamin E may improve male fertility

Recent research from Israel suggests that vitamin E may improve the fertilization rate in men who have normal sperm but a low in vitro (laboratory) fertilization rate. In the three month study, researchers studied 15 couples who had been inexplicably infertile for more than a year before the study began. The men were given 200 mg of vitamin E daily for a month and this appeared to bring about a 10 per cent improvement in the ability of the men’s sperm to fertilize an egg. Two of the couples subsequently conceived. Vitamin E has well known antioxidant properties and may possibly protect cellular structures in the sperm from damage. The men in the study had high levels of lipid peroxidation which were reduced after the vitamin E supplementation and correlated with improvement in fertilization rates.

Taken from Fertility and Sterility