{"id":1098,"date":"2019-03-31T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:40:21","slug":"most-men-never-know-whether-they-have-a-normal-sperm-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Most Men Never Know Whether they Have a Normal Sperm Count"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-touching-jaw-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1100\" width=\"515\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-touching-jaw-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-touching-jaw-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-touching-jaw-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-touching-jaw-40x60.jpeg 40w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-touching-jaw.jpeg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization established a system of classifying male sperm counts and now we have a new standard that states that the total motile sperm count (TMSC) was the best measure of fertility; and the totals needed number in the many millions! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You would need to have an actual test, and don&#8217;t confuse this with hormone level testing, which is related to total sperm counts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new way is to look at this how many good sperm do you\nneed to become a baby daddy, and give your baby the healthiest pregnancy. Thus,\nit&#8217;s not really a specific number, it&#8217;s of course a range of how many of these\nhealthiest sperm would a man need, and you need more than 15 million to become\nfertile, but counts much higher than that are frequently found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only does the WHO count total numbers, but they categorize you into one of a variety of fairly intimidating categories such as oligozoospermia (semen ejaculated with low number of sperm), astenozoospermia (semen with no sperm), teratozoospermia (semen with many abnormal forms of sperm) or combinations of these and azoospermia. Knowing if you have one of these conditions can have health implications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This classification is based on values of an important study\ndone many years ago, during more fertile times, when they studied a group of\n1953 men with proven fertility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this classification can give you insight as to how\nlikely you are to become a dad, it&#8217;s actual predictive value is not very good\nas men&#8217;s counts vary so much from day to day; so your day to day health will\naffect how healthy a dad you are. About ever 90 days you make all new sperm. Causes\nof abnormal sperm counts are many. We suggest couple come in for a discussion first\nwhenever pregnancy planning begins, and find out if you need to get that sperm\ncount. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization established a system of classifying male sperm counts and now we have a new standard that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54,86,119],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guys-guide-to-gyno","tag-fertility","tag-male-sexuality","tag-sperm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}