Fertility is a natural process to insure the survival of human species.
Through natural selection, we produce many offspring when the
reproductive system works at it's peak in the suitable environment with
plenty foods around. On the other hand, the reductive system may
completely shut down or work at it;s minimum state and we produce less
offspring, when the environment is hostile including less foods around,
war, epidemic, etc. But regardless any situation. most women are capable
to conceive sometimes before menopause.
Micro nutrients are defined as nutritional supplements of which human
body and other living things can not produce but are required throughout
their lives in small quantities to perform all kinds of physiological
functions, including function of offspring production.
Types of micro nutrients enhance fertility.
1. Folic acid
Folic acid as a member of vitamin B complex, is very important nutrient for enhancing fertility.
a) Red blood cell
Folic
acid is vital for red blood cell production. Deficiency of folic acid
decreases the function of blood in transporting nutrients and oxygen to
the body cells, resulting in increasing the risk of abnormal brain
cells in transmitting information between themselves and glands,
leading to over and under production of certain hormone that interferes
with normal menstrual cycle and fertility.
b) Norepinephrine
it
plays a dual role as a hormone and a neurotransmitter, it affects the
brain in response to actions and control. Deficiency of folic acid
causes imbalance of levels of norepinephrine hormone, leading to
interrupting the information transmitting resulting in depression and
emotional and physical stress.
c) Serotonin
Serotonin is a
hormone secreted when our body under stress. Folic acid deficiency
causes over production of serotonin hormone, leading to imbalance of
hormone progesterone that interferes with normal menstrual cycle and
disrupts ovulation.
d) Nervous system
It is said that folic acid
helps to synthesize genetic material in every cell of the body.
Deficiency causes abnormal cell growth and DNA duplication abnormality
that disrupts the sperm in egg fertilization and increases the chance of
birth defects.
e) Neural tube defects
Researcher found that
deficiency of folic acid before and during pregnancy causes neural tube
defects as resulting of abnormal genetic synthesizing.
3. Selenium
Selenium is one of most important nutrient
a) Antioxidant
It
is one of antioxidants that helps to strengthen the immune system
system, thus guarding our body against the bacteria and virus invasion
and preventing the immune system abnormal function in recognizing
sperm as foreigner and in producing antibody antigen to attack them.
b) Miscarriage and birth defects
Selenium is proven to prevent chromosome breakage that causes miscarriages.
c) Reproductive enhancer in men
Good
levels of selenium are also essential to maximize sperm formation. A
study conducted at the University of Padua in Italy shows that selenium
helps to prevent oxidation of sperm cell , thus increasing the sperm
quality and quantity.
d) working synergistic with vitamin E
Study
shows that selenium works together with vitamins E not only can prevent
the forming of free radicals but also increase it' s effectiveness in
preventing and inhibiting the development of breast cancer.
e) Hypothyroidism
Selenium
is essential for maintaining the thyroid glands in secreting thyroid
hormone. Deficiency of selenium causes hypothyroidism, leading to
abnormal weight gain that increases the risk of insulin fluctuation,
leading to poor egg and sperm quality.
f) Intra cranial pressure symptoms
Intra
cranial pressure is the pressure in the cranium, selenium helps to
maintain the right levels of pressure exerts on the brain's intra
cranial blood circulation vessels, thereby decreasing the intra-cranial
pressure symptoms such as headaches, nausea, speech disorders,
Jacksonian seizures, etc. thus reducing the risk of the nervous system
causes of infertility.
4. Flaxseed oil
Flax also known Linum
usitatissimum is a member of the genus Linum, belongs to the family
Linaceae, it's seed has been used in traditional medicine in treating
heart diseases caused by high levels of cholesterol.
a) Essential fatty acid
Flaxseed
oil contains high levels of essential fatty acid Omega 3 and 6, it not
only help to eliminate the trans fat and saturate fat through liver
waste elimination, but also helps to increasing blood flow to the
reproductive organs resulting in increasing the production of sperm
count and sperm quality.
b) Lignan
flaxseed contains high amount
of ligan, it is proven in helping to strengthen not only the immune
system in fighting against irregular cells growth, but also improve
it's function in protecting the body own tissues, including sperm.
c) Lecithin
Lecithin
is a fat like substance (phospholipid) found in flaxseed not only
helps to inhibit the levels of bad cholesterol, but also is a key
building block of cell membranes resulting in protecting protects cells
from oxidation in the surrounding the brain, thus lessening the risk
of nervous tension, hormone imbalance and low libido.
d) Fiber
Flax
seeds contain high amount of fiber which is vital in helping liver in
regulating spleen in insulin production, resulting in decreasing the
risk of blood stagnation and qi imbalance in spleen, leading to
normalizing the production of testosterone and increasing the chance of
good quality sperm production.
e) Alpha linolenic acid
It also
contains high levels of alpha linolenic acid which is vital for a
healthy prostate gland, resulting in increasing the kidney function in
regulating sperm production as well as strong ejaculation.
5. Vitamin B12
a) Reproductive organ enhancer
Researchers
found that vitamin B12 not only is vital for the development of
healthy fetus and embryo but also improves the fertility rate.
Deficiency of B12 may interfere with division of cells and cells
growth, leading to miscarriage and making conception more difficult.
b) Blood flow
Vitamin
B12 also helps to decrease the risk of heart disease and increases the
blood flow to the body in transportation of oxygen to the body
including the reproductive organ, thereby decreasing the risk of blood
stagnation in the abdomen.
c) Nervous system
It is also important
to boost the nervous in regulating the production of certain hormone
in the body, resulting in lessening the risk of over production of
certain hormone that normalizes the menstrual cycle for women.
d) Endometrium
It
is said that vitamin B12 helps to boost the endometrium lining in egg
fertilization, resulting in decreasing the risk of miscarriage and
increasing the chance of egg implantation in artificial insemination.
e) Ovulation assisting
It
is considered one of the vitamin necessary for normal ovulation. Study
founds that deficiency of vitamin B12 may causes irregular ovulation
or not ovulation at all, making conception difficulty for some women.
6. Vitamin C
a) Reproductive organs
Vitamin
C helps to strengthen the capillaries, thereby decreasing the risk of
internal blood leaking, leading to increasing blood flow to the
reproductive organ including the penis and uterus, thereby, decreasing
the chance of erectile dysfunction in men and decreasing the risk of
egg fertilization failure.
b) Antioxidant
It is also one of the
powerful antioxidant that helps the immune system in guarding our body
against any invasion of bacteria and virus, thereby decreasing the
risks of infection and inflammation to the reproductive organs.
c) Nutrients
By
assisting the digestive system in absorbing vital vitamins and
minerals, vitamin C helps to increase nutrients to our body cell,
resulting in decreasing the risk of infertility caused by nutrients
deficiency.
d) Testicle cancer
A new Danish study reported at
Johns Hopkins InteliHealth on February 26, 1999 found that deficiency
of vitamin C not only increases the risk of testicle cancer but also
decreases the chance of fertility
e) Antibody antigen
Since
vitamin C plays an important role in assisting immune system fighting
against forming of free radicals, it also helps to reduce the risk of
abnormal function of a certain class of protein of immune system which
binds to the sperm and allows other immune cells to attack them.
7. Vitamin D
a) Calcium absorption
Vitamin
D helps to improve the maximum absorption of calcium by our digestive
system. Deficiency of Vitamin D normally also causes calcium
deficiency, leading to nervous tension and decreasing the function of
uterus in supporting the embryo to growth, resulting in miscarriage.
b) Irregular cell growth
Vitamin
D plays an important role in strengthening the immune system in
regulating cell growth. Deficiency of vitamin D causes increase risk of
cancer.
c) Liver and spleen function
Liver requires vitamin D to
stimulate and regulate the spleen function in production of insulin.
Deficiency of vitamin D causes insulin fluctuation, leading to type II
diabetes that not only effects the heart in pumping blood through out
the body, but also decreases blood flow to the reproductive organs.
d) Nervous tension
It
is also important for adrenal gland in regulating the production of
tyrosine hydroxylase. Deficiency of vitamin D causes imbalance of
hormones, leading to nervous tension such as stress, anxiety, fatigue,
lack of energy, and depression.
e) Leptin secretion
Vitamin D
also slow down the production of leptin from the fat cells, thereby,
increasing the brain in controlling the weight gain or loss, resulting
in increasing the chance of fertility.
f) Antibody antigen
It
alsp helps to increase the immune function in fighting bacteria and
virus invasion, thereby, decreasing the abnormal function in production
of a certain class of protein which bind to sperm cells and allow other
immune cell to attack them.
8. Vitamin E
a) Antioxidant
Vitamin
E is a powerful antioxidant, it helps to improve the immune system in
regulating the cell duplication and minimize the risk of cell
oxidation. Deficiency of vitamin E may increase the risk of irregular
cell growth, leading to fibroids, endometrial adhesion and implants as
well as tumor in the reproductive organ in women and increasing the
risk of oxidative sperm in men.
b) Hormone production
It also
plays an vital role in balancing the production of sex hormones by
regulating the function of glands. Deficiency of vitamin E causes
decreasing of testosterone, leading to lower sperm count that
interferes with fertility.
c) Egg quality
Researcher found that
deficiency of vitamin E causes poor egg quality, resulting in
increasing the risk of birth defect and miscarriage.
d) Sexual lubrication
It
is said that vitamin E helps to increase the production of lubrication
in the vagina, thereby decreasing the pain caused by penis penetration
during sexual intercourse, resulting in increasing the chance of
fertility for some women.
e) Blood flow
It is said that vitamin E
also helps to improve the heart function in providing nutrients and
oxygen for our body cells and regulating the blood flow to the body,
resulting in lessening the risk of blood stagnation in the abdomen,
thus increasing the chance of fertility.
9. L-Arginine
L-arginine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids and has been used as nutritionally essential for infants.
a) Nitric oxide and blood flow
By
making nitric oxide, L-arginine helps blood vessel to relax, thereby
increasing the blood flow to the the reproductive organs of which
decreasing the risk of sexual dysfunction in men and enhancing the
function of reproductive organs in women.
b) Insulin sensitivity
Insulin
sensitive is defined as a condition that insulin becomes ineffective
or less effective, resulting in insulin no longer helps cells in the
liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood and
store it as glycogen in the liver and muscle. L aginine helps the body's
cells in improving the insulin sensitive, thereby reducing the risk of
insulin resistance and increasing the chance of normal menstrual cycle
for conception.
c) Growth hormone
It also helps in improving
and regulating the production of growth hormone, resulting in decreasing
the risk of hormone imbalance such as estrogen and testosterone,
leading to increasing sexual desire and quality of sperm.
d) Reproductive enhancer
A
study in Italy suggests that L-arginine helps to improve sperm
production and sperm quality in subfertile male as resulting in
increasing immune function, blood flow to the reproductive organs and
stimulating testosterone hormone production.
f) Weight Loss
Since it helps to improve insulin sensitive, it may help reduce body fat and speed up weight loss.
g) Immune function
L
arginine besides helps to improve immune function in fighting against
the infection and inflammation caused by foreign bacteria and virus, it
also increases the output of T- cells from the thymus gland, thereby
decreasing the risk of cell oxidation in the reproductive system, thus
increasing the chance of fertility
10. Gamma-linolenic acid
Gamma-linolenic
acid or GLA is also known as gamoleic acid, it is a fatty acid found
in vegetable oils and has been used as supplement in treating
inflammation and auto-immune diseases.
a) Autoimmunity
Beside
helping to improve liver function in fat and protein metabolism, it
also strengthens the immune system in preventing certain classes of
protein binding to the sperm and allowing other immune cells to attack
them in men. In women, it improves the production of friendly cervix
mucus for sperm invasion.
b) Inflammation
GLA also decreases the
risk of inflammation by converting rapidly dihomo GLA (DGLA) when it
is released, by competing with arachidonic acid for the enzymes COX and
LOX, resulting in lessening the risk of inflammation.
c) Uterine tonic
It
is helps to balance the levels of prostaglandins hormones, resulting
in decreasing the risk of over active uterine muscles that causes
abnormal pain and cramps and distorts the normal process of menstrual
cycle.
d) Nervous symptoms
Since it helps to increases the liver
in fat and protein metabolism and blood flow to the nervous system, it
improves the transmitting information functions between cells thereby,
decreasing the risk of stress, headache and migraine, etc.
f) Cell growth
GLA
is a nutrient used by the body to maintain healthy cells and vital
body functions, thereby decreasing the risk of abnormal cell growth in
the body, including the cells in the reproductive organ.
11. Copper
a) Immunity
Copper
is vital in maintaining the production of antibodies and white blood
cells as well as antioxidant enzymes, thereby increasing the immune
system in fighting against infection and inflammation and preventing
the immune abnormal function of antibody antigen production.
b) Enzyme production
Low
levels of copper may alter enzyme systems in regulating the
reproductive function in offspring production, leading to decreasing of
the chance of fertility caused by sexual libido and low quality sperm
production.
c) Nervous symptoms
Since our brain requires certain
amount of copper in transmitting information. Deficiency of copper
increases the risk of stress, resulting in over production of certain
hormones ( adrenaline and serotonin), leading to nervous tension
including emotional and physical stress.
d) Anaemia
Although zinc
is important for the reproductive health, overdose of zinc may cause
copper deficiency, leading to low red blood count and decreasing the
blood function in oxygen absorption, thus increasing the risk of blood
and nutrients deficiency, causing irregular ovulation in women and
lower quality of sperm in men.
12. Iron
a) Increasing blood flow
Iron
not only is necessary for the fetus to grow, it also plays a vital
role for women who try to conceive because it helps to stimulate the
production of red blood cells, thus increasing the oxygen absorption
into the blood stream, resulting in lessening the risk of anemia.
b) Energy
It also helps to turn glucose into energy by stimulating the production of hemoglobin which is a essential element in red blood cells for carrying oxygen from the lungs to the cells in the body. In
each cell, oxygen is used to release maximum energy from the food that
you eat. Deficiency of iron causes low level of hemoglobin, leading
fatigue, dizziness and nervous tension.
c) DNA synthesisIron
is required by ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) and other enzymes
involved in cell division. RNR plays a critical role in regulating the
total rate of DNA synthesis so that DNA to cell mass is maintained at a
constant ratio during cell division and DNA repair. Deficiency of iron
distorts the ratio, leading to DNA being damaged, causing birth
defects and miscarriage.
d) Menstruation
For women with heavy
menstruation (blood loss more than certain amounts) may cause blood
deficiency and iron loss. If the blood and iron loss can not be
replaced, it may cause lower red blood cell resulting in anaemia that
can disturb the function of reproductive function in fertilization.
e) Myelin
Myelin
is essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system. Since
iron help in myelin formation and maintenance, deficiency of iron causes
disrupting signals between the brain and other parts of the body,
leading to double vision, memory loss, difficulty in controlling bowel
movements or urination, fatigue, etc, thereby lessening the reproductive
system to maintain it's normal function, resulting in low quality
sperm count and infertility.
13. Magnesium
a) Healthy heart
Magnesium
is necessary for a healthy heart. Besides helping to regulate the
heartbeat or heart rhythm symptoms including palpitations, it also
prevents the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels of the heart
and stabilizes the blood pressure level, leading to a health heart in
regulating the blood flow to the body, including the reproductive
organs.
b) Diabetes
Since magnesium plays an important role in
carbohydrate metabolism, it helps to regulate the production of insulin
by pancreas, leading to normal levels of blood sugar in the
bloodstream, resulting in decreasing the risk of infertility symptoms
caused by fluctuation of blood glucose.
c) Working with calcium
While
magnesium helps to relax muscle, calcium woks in the opposite
direction by tightening them. Since they work together to control the
movement of our body's muscles, imbalance of magnesium and calcium
causes muscle tension, leading to muscle spam, muscle fatigue and
muscle soreness including the reproductive muscle, thereby decreasing
the chance of fertility.
d) Hypertension
Magnesium not only helps
to stimulate production of vasodilator prostacyclins and nitric oxide
but also alters vascular responses to vasoactive agonists that helps to
modulate vascular tone and reactivity. Deficiency of magnesium may
cause irregular vascular function in controlling the heart muscle in
relaxing and tightening, leading to hypertension.
e) Menstrual cycle
Magnesium
is considered as main constituents of nerve fibres. Deficiency causes
muscle spam in the abdominal region, leading to menstrual cramp and
interferes with the proper function of the nervous system in receiving
massage from other nervous cells, leading to nervous tension and over
production of certain hormones, resulting in highly active,
sleeplessness and fatigue and distorting the normal process of the
reproductive organs in production of sperm and egg.
f) Potassium
As
we mentioned in previous article, magnesium plays an important role in
regulating the levels of of potassium which is vital for the lymphatic
function in controlling the body fluid. Deficiency of magnesium causes
abnormal levels of potassium, leading to water retention that
increases the risk of PMS and reduces the chance of conception in
women.
14. Calcium
a) Neutralizing stomach acid
Calcium is
vital to helps the digestive system in maintaining the right levels of
stomach acid, thereby reducing the risk of diarrhoea and increasing the
system in absorbing vital vitamins and minerals, resulting in
lessening the risk of infertility caused by nutrients deficiency.
b) Blood vessel expansion
It
also helps to stimulate the blood muscle to expanse, thereby,
decreasing the over working heart and lowering the high blood pressure
and increasing the blood flow to the body. including the abdominal
organs.
c) Insulin
Calcium also plays an important roles in
insulin secretion from pancreas, because this secretion cannot occur
without the existence of calcium. If calcium in the exterior fluid
surrounding insulin secretion cells namely, B (beta) cells in the islet
of langerhans, is removed or the calcium channels are blocked, insulin
secretion is also blocked as well, leading to insulin imbalance,
causing irregular menstrual period in women and lower sperm quality in
men.
d) Transmitting information between nervous cells
Calcium
also is vital for improving the functions of brain cell in transmitting
information between themselves and our body glands. Deficiency of
calcium may distort these function, thus increasing the nervous tension
and hormone imbalance, leading to over production of certain hormones
that decrease the chance of fertility
e) Healthy bone and muscle
Since
pregnancy require a lot of energy as welling as strong bone and muscle
to carry the baby to full term, thereby, a woman with a healthy bone
and muscle is necessary to trigger the brain function in thinking of
the readiness of reproductive organs for fertilization.
15. Manganese
a) Energy
Manganese
plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism, thereby increasing
the transformation of glucose to energy for our body to use for daily
activity. Deficiency causes nervous system including fatigue, tiredness
and loss of concentration and dizziness.
b) Synthesis of fatty acids
It
is also vital to helps our body in synthesis of essential fatty acids.
Deficiency of manganese increases the risk of over production of
certain hormone of the prostaglandins family, leading to over active
uterus, thus decreasing the chance of fertility.
c) Superoxide dismutase
Acting
as an antioxidant. it helps to improve the immune system in fighting
against cell oxidation, thereby decreasing the risk of irregular cell
growth in the reproductive organs that interfere with the natural
process of fertilization.
d) Mineral amino acids chelate
Manganeses
also have a function in maintaining the levels of minerals in the
body, thereby decreasing the risk of mineral deficiency such as
magnesium, iron and calcium, resulting in decreasing the risk of
infertility caused by deficiency of iron or other trace metals.
f) Enhancing bio-assimilation
It
helps to enhance the bio assimilation in absorbing vital minerals and
vitamins or other chemicals from food within the gastrointestinal tract
by breaking down chemicals and alternating the chemicals in the
bloodstream by the liver or cellular secretions, thus increasing the
nutrients to the body, thus enhancing fertility.
16. L-Carnitine
L-Carnitine
is also known as vitamin BT, it is vital for our body in energy
production and for fat metabolism. Since our body can only produce a
small amount of L-carnitine, we may require to increase the levels of
L-carnitine by taking some L-carnitine rick food to prevent any effects
if deficiency is found.
a) Antioxidant
L-carnitine is an
antioxidant, besides helping to improve immune function in guarding our
body against any infection and inflammation, it also helps to decrease
the cells oxidation, resulting in lessening the risk of irregular cell
growth in the reproductive region that impairs fertility.
b) Sperm enhancer
It
is said that L carnitine plays a vital role in sperm energy
metabolism, because its conversion to acetyl-L-carnitine in the mature
sperm helps the continuation of energy production within the sperm,
thereby increasing the mature sperm quality and count.
c) Blood sugar
It
also helps to increase the speed of glucose disposal, thereby
decreasing the blood sugar building up in the blood stream, causing
blood thickening and decreasing the blood flow to the reproductive
organs that cause low sperm count effecting fertility.
d) Weight loss
Since
it reduces the pancreas function in secreting insulin by increasing
glucose disposal, it helps to reduce the fluctuation of levels of
insulin in the blood stream, leading to reducing the risk of sugar
craving, thus helping to lose weight.
e) Nervous system
It also
plays an essential roles in preventing the brain cell being oxidated by
stopping the ovidative scavengers to travel through the blood-brain
barrier, where it helps form the brain chemical acetylcholine and keeps
mitochondria to to perform its work efficiently by clearing them of
toxic fatty-acid metabolites, thereby reducing the risk of oxidative
cells in transmuting abnormal information between themselves and
glands, leading to hormone imbalance that disrupts the normal process
of fertility.
17. Etc
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