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Controversial Pill Claims To Improve Couples Fertility
By administrator | November 29, 2008
A pill designed by an Australian scientist claims it doubles pregnancy rates in infertile couples. However, controversy exists after the trials of the pill were criticised by Melbourne University Fertility experts in a letter to the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The Melbourne University fertility experts have criticised the trial as providing no evidence that the new pill improved embryo quality.
The pill called Menevit contains a number antioxidants and minerals such as vitamins C and E, folic acid, garlic oil, selenium, and lycopene.. The pill is claimed to help the one men in twenty men affected by male infertility. One in six couples have difficulties with fertility and conceiving, with the male being responsible for a third of cases.
The pill has been developed by Dr Kelton Tremellen from Adelaide University and will be sold over the counter from pharmacies.
Dr Tremellen explained that in trials based on 60 infertile men, two thirds were given the pill daily for three months before starting on IVF. The result of the trials showed that those men given the pill had a significantly higher pregnancy rate than the control group, with 38.5% of embryos resulting in a pregnancy at 13 weeks, compared to 16% for the control group.
Dr Tremellen said that the pull works by neutralising the body’s free radicals that break down the DNA in sperm which leads to a greater risk of infertility, miscarriage or birth defects. The creation and number of Free radicals in the body is affected by drinking alcohol, smoking, and environmental pollution.
The debate continued as Anne Clark from Fertility First explained that a recent trial based on 86 patients in her Hurstville Clinic, Sydney, Australia had showed that combing taking supplements with a lifestyle change had reduced DNA damage in sperm in four out of five men.
Anne Clark from Fertility First said a trial of 86 patients in her Hurstville clinic showed combining supplements with lifestyle change reduced sperm DNA damage in 80 per cent of men.
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