A lot is said and written about women's fertility, and how we can eat/sleep/stress less to improve it.
However,
a new study has shed some light on how men's fertility is highly affected by lifestyle factors too, and that instead of focusing so much on just how us ladies can super-charge our fertility, we need to check in more often with what the men get up to as well.
According to the research, shared at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference, it turns out that men who go to sleep before 10:30 pm have sperm that's four times as healthy as men who go to sleep after 11:30 pm.
It has long since been a known fact that
sleep is important to female fertility. Sleep disturbance can create stress in a woman's body, which in turn may impact how her hormones and reproductive system function.
And now esearchers from Aarhus University, Denmark are saying that men who got around eight hours a night were also more likely to have healthy sperm than those who got less than seven.
The latest findings study looked at
sleep patterns of around 100 male volunteers who were attending fertility clinics in Denmark, 48 of whom had healthy sperm and 56 with low quality sperm.
The experts believe that just like in women, a decrease in sleep for men leads to increased stress, which can harm sperm.
