You are in Women, Men, Aging . When a couple is diagnosed infertile, first thoughts often run to the woman. She can't conceive. As nature would have it, problems with infertility are equally due to male and female conditions.
Infertility is the inability to get pregnant after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse.
Statistics suggest that 35 to 40 percent of the problems are caused by male conditions, another 35 to 40 percent by female conditions, and the last 20 to 30 percent a combination of the two, plus a small percentage of unknown causes. Men's part in fertilization is quite amazing. About 200 million sperm are mixed with semen to form ejaculate. Only 40 of those 400 reach the vicinity of the egg, surviving the toxic environment of the semen and the hostile environment of the vagina. Problems with semen Even though specialists know the causes of male infertility, what's not always known is the cause behind the cause.