2009/12/25

Tomato soup help enhance male fertility

British scientists published a study shows that drinking tomato soup every day can increase the body's absorption of lycopene, which help improve male fertility.
 

According to the British "Daily Telegraph" reported that the Department of Biomedical Sciences University of Portsmouth researchers randomly selected six average age of 42-year-old healthy male, so that they drink a day for two weeks filled with 400 grams of canned tomato soup .

 

The researchers found that these men's semen lycopene levels rose by 7% to 12%. Currently known semen of infertile men, low levels of lycopene. Therefore, researchers believe that the male fertility to enhance and increase the lycopene content.

 

The results have been published in the "British Journal of Urology" on. Lycopene is not clear what role to play on fertility. The researchers speculate that contain lycopene antioxidant may kill the human body effects on fertility of harmful chemicals.

 

Prior studies have shown that lycopene for the result of Exercise-induced asthma and other diseases, the potential efficacy, but also reduce the risk of prostate cancer risk. Tomatoes are also rich in lycopene, but its seen as a health Jiapin, but this is the first time scientists have found that tomatoes help improve male fertility.

 

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