What is Fertility?
Webster defines fertility as a couple’s natural ability to produce offspring. Every human being has the natural ability to reproduce (which is part of our body’s reproductive system). Fertility should not to be confused with fecundity. Fecundity is all about the actual ability of an individual to reproduce. Someone who lacks fertility is infertile; someone who lacks fecundity is sterile.
The most important task anyone who wishes to get pregnant should know is fertility. Women become fertile in the early 20s while men become fertile at the onset of puberty. Men produce a little over 500000 sperm cells a day while women produce a little over 300000 egg cells in a life time. Men ejaculates more or less 300million sperm cells …show more content…
So does getting pregnant. There is no such thing as immaculate conception (scientifically speaking that is) therefore in order to get pregnant one should understand both male and female fertility. Let us start with male fertility.
Consider the facts mentioned above. On an average, a male individual produces 500000 sperm cells a day. It takes 300000 million to ejaculate completely with only a handful (at most 100) successfully able to travel to the fallopian tube. Out of the 100 it only takes 1 to make a girl pregnant.
Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky to have strong sperm cells that can survive the travel to the fallopian tube. Some men have difficulty impregnating their spouses because of several factors. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) approximately 10 to 20 percent of all men around the world experience low sperm count. This is mostly caused by the male body’s reaction to certain chemicals, exposure to radiation as well as heavy metals (not the music genre) or use of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. Pollution can also be a factor for low sperm motility. So is heat. Studies show that spending time in hot baths, sitting for a long period of time or wearing tight fitting undergarments has a temperature elevating effect on the testes (where the sperm cells are …show more content…
The sperm (from the Greek word sperma which means “seed”) is the male reproductive cell produced by the male species of the human race. It consists of a head, the mid piece and a tail. The nucleus of the sperm cell is located in the head and is the part of the sperm cell that penetrates the female egg. The middle part contains mitochondria which produces ATP (short for adenosine triphospate) which serves as the energy booster in the sperm’s travel in the woman’s womb. And of course there is the tail, which serves as the propeller guiding the sperm cell in its quest to fertilize the egg. A healthy sperm cell should contain all three parts in order to be a potential fertilizer. Lacking in one of the three can cause a failed pregnancy
Webster defines fertility as a couple’s natural ability to produce offspring. Every human being has the natural ability to reproduce (which is part of our body’s reproductive system). Fertility should not to be confused with fecundity. Fecundity is all about the actual ability of an individual to reproduce. Someone who lacks fertility is infertile; someone who lacks fecundity is sterile.
The most important task anyone who wishes to get pregnant should know is fertility. Women become fertile in the early 20s while men become fertile at the onset of puberty. Men produce a little over 500000 sperm cells a day while women produce a little over 300000 egg cells in a life time. Men ejaculates more or less 300million sperm cells …show more content…
So does getting pregnant. There is no such thing as immaculate conception (scientifically speaking that is) therefore in order to get pregnant one should understand both male and female fertility. Let us start with male fertility.
Consider the facts mentioned above. On an average, a male individual produces 500000 sperm cells a day. It takes 300000 million to ejaculate completely with only a handful (at most 100) successfully able to travel to the fallopian tube. Out of the 100 it only takes 1 to make a girl pregnant.
Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky to have strong sperm cells that can survive the travel to the fallopian tube. Some men have difficulty impregnating their spouses because of several factors. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) approximately 10 to 20 percent of all men around the world experience low sperm count. This is mostly caused by the male body’s reaction to certain chemicals, exposure to radiation as well as heavy metals (not the music genre) or use of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. Pollution can also be a factor for low sperm motility. So is heat. Studies show that spending time in hot baths, sitting for a long period of time or wearing tight fitting undergarments has a temperature elevating effect on the testes (where the sperm cells are …show more content…
The sperm (from the Greek word sperma which means “seed”) is the male reproductive cell produced by the male species of the human race. It consists of a head, the mid piece and a tail. The nucleus of the sperm cell is located in the head and is the part of the sperm cell that penetrates the female egg. The middle part contains mitochondria which produces ATP (short for adenosine triphospate) which serves as the energy booster in the sperm’s travel in the woman’s womb. And of course there is the tail, which serves as the propeller guiding the sperm cell in its quest to fertilize the egg. A healthy sperm cell should contain all three parts in order to be a potential fertilizer. Lacking in one of the three can cause a failed pregnancy