Walnuts Could Improve Sperm Count
Nuts… uh, fuel… your nuts… with nuts…? Forgive me, it’s too early on Monday morning and I am having a hard time putting together sentences, let alone make puns.
But SERIOUSLY, if you’re looking to rally the mini-mes swimming around in your family jewels, add some walnuts to your oatmeal or cereal in the morning, because a new study claims that walnuts could improve your semen quality.
From the study (Via HuffPo):
The study included 117 men ages 21 to 35. About half of the men ate the 75 grams of walnuts each day for 12 weeks, while the other half ate a normal diet of Western-style food.
The researchers found that the men who ate the walnuts “experienced improvement in sperm vitality, motility, and morphology,” while those who didn’t eat the nuts “saw no change,” they wrote in the Biology of Reproduction study.
In case you’re like me and wondered if “motility” was a made up combination of mobility and utility, you’re… kind of right, because it’s defined as “ability to move spontaneously and independently,” which I guess means your sperm go from lethargic couch potatoes to tiny Usain Bolts, zooming around your sac, just WAITING to impregnate someone.
So, moral of the story: Order a goat cheese and walnut salad for lunch… but if you’re not in the baby market, make sure to glove your junk on your late-night booty call, cause those suckers are gonna be on their A-game!