Cornell researchers has found the men with normal Cap-Scores had a 2.78-fold higher chance of pregnancy than men with a low score, and a 4.23-fold higher success rate at achieving pregnancy in their first attempt at IUI. In contrast, study claims that none of the elements of semen analysis, such as sperm swimming or concentration, had any relationship with male fertility.
“Out of all the tests commonly used to measure sperm, the Cap-Score is the only one that prospectively has been shown to indicate the probability of a man to generate a pregnancy,” said Dr. Alexander Travis, professor of reproductive biology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, director of Cornell’s new Master of Public Health program.
This is certainly a new approach to learn the men’s fertility conditions. Currently the normal procedure is a sperm analysis on the volume, concentration, motility and progression, morphology. This study marks a major improvement over semen analysis, the standard diagnostic tool for male infertility for more than half a century. Current sperm descriptive nature is not enough to explain the causes of infertility nor it can predict whether sperm will actually fertilize an egg.
“The Cap-Score, on the other hand, quantifies “capacitation,” the changes that take place within a sperm cell that enable it to fertilize.” study said.
So what does this mean for nature fertility work and for acupuncturists or Chinese medicine?
We don’t see it can change much in the fertility field. For practitioners of Chinese medicine, it is just another parameter out of the many elements we need to collect. It might help to predict the chance of fertilization. It cannot help to improve the quality of sperms. Acupuncture can help the energy flow in the fertility meridians. and Chinese medicine herbs can also do so by improving the nutrient supplement for nourishing the sperms grow. We are interested to help sperm grow the best through nature ways.
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