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Low Sperm Count? What Does It Mean?
About 250 million sperm swim along in each ejaculated teaspoon of semen. Sperm, those tadpole-like cells, contain each man's genetic heritage. Although a healthy man produces sperm at a rate of 60,000 per minute, each requires about three months growth to mature.
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Immature sperm are first created in the testes, and then move through the long coiled tube behind each testicle called the epididymis. After leaving the epididymis, sperm travel up two pipe-like vas deferens.
The number, shape and motility of sperm generally decline with age, although there are numerous other factors that can speed up the man's biological clock affecting his overall sexual health.
Anything less than 20 million sperm per milliliter of ejaculated semen is considered low sperm count. Less than 10 million sperm per milliliter of semen ejaculated is very low. The technical term for this condition is oligospermia. Greater than 20 million sperm per milliliter is normal.
Why does it take so many million sperm when only one egg is required?
Well, the egg is so microscopic that it's necessary for literally millions of healthy sperm to travel through the woman's entire reproductive tract in order that at least one will encounter the egg at precisely the right moment of fertilization.
It also takes about 72 days for a sperm to mature and be available for ejaculation. So, any factor that influences sperm production has an effect on sperm count three months later.
Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, illnesses and infection all interfere with sperm production.
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