Men’s health and anything that can make a man healthier makes me happier and it makes me realize that I’m doing my job well as a men’s health specialist. But two is we’re going to be talking about how to optimize a man’s sperm counts to be able to initiate a pregnancy. There are few things in my career that are more gratifying than counseling couples and figuring out a way for a couple that is unable to achieve pregnancy to get them through that process so that they can have a baby. That is one of the greatest things that I do in my career and one of the things that I’m most passionate about, so to that end we’re gonna have a fun time here discussing a few different ways to do this. And this is going to be a little bit of what you can do at home and then what I can do in the office when you see me for a visit because like everything else that I do in my practice of medicine this is a dialogue. This is a team effort so what you’re doing in my office for 30 minutes every couple of months is only a part of the picture about how you can optimize your fertility. What you’re doing outside of the office that’s the key working with your partner. Doing everything that we set out as a plan for you is how to make this the best possible outcome for you. This talk is going to specifically address how a man that has a low fertility potential or low sperm counts can be treated, and again it’s going to involve some lifestyle factors.
It may involve me doing some blood work and analyzing the sperm test to figure out exactly where the problem is and then coming up with a treatment strategy, so to that end, let’s get started. Like all the ground rules for our UCLA webinars we’re going to start with an introductory slide on what we’re talking about today and then we’re also going to ask you to use Twitter and tweet questions to the hashtag or give us a comment on Facebook. But, what happens if we release sperm daily? We should have plenty of time at the end of this discussion for me to answer all the questions that come through and give everybody out there listening to a really good idea of what’s going on. So, the first thing is that anything in medicine is “When do we know when a man needs help?”,What are the parameters that I look at that can allow me to intervene and do something to help this couple achieve their pregnancy? So, let’s go down through this list right now. So, important questions to ask yourself. First of all, as a couple how long have you been trying? We typically, in the infertility world, both male and female infertility experts think that over 6 months of trying and having no, a successful pregnancy is a reasonable time to get a workup.
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