Supplements of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may reverse abnormalities in sperm associated with infertility, suggests a new study with mice.
Mice engineered to lack a gene that codes for an enzyme that helps them produce DHA were found to have fewer sperm and more abnormalities in what little sperm they did have, but such effects were reversed in mice fed DHA, researchers from the University of Illinois report in the Journal of Lipid Research….
