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Zinc & Fertility

What Sparked My Interest?
I recently saw an interesting video on Facebook called, When Sperm Meets Egg. It is not graphic. It shows the process through a lab experiment. To see the Facebook video, click here. After watching the video, I was inspired to read more about the connection between zinc and fertility. I did some research to see what I could discover and found some online articles that confirmed the importance of zinc.

Why Is Zinc So Important To Fertility?
According to an article I read on Natural Fertility Info.com, called “Zinc: How Essential Is It To Your Fertility”, “Without zinc, a woman's estrogen and progesterone levels can get out of balance and her reproductive system may not work fully. Zinc is needed in order for a woman’s body to release mature eggs that are ripe for fertilization. It has also been reported in The Centers for Disease Control’s Assisted Reproductive Technology, that low levels of zinc have directly been linked to miscarriage in the early stages of pregnancy” (Rodriguez).
What I read from the website, Natural Fertility Info was also confirmed on the website, Natural Fertility, and Wellness. The second article I found, called "Zinc and Fertility, What It Does And Why It's Important?" had a powerful opening statement. The author wrote, "A deficiency in zinc can cause chromosol changes in either partner, which reduces fertility and has a greater risk of miscarriage. Another interesting point given, is when a woman is deficient in zinc, it inhibits the metabolism of protein and that can lower egg quality (Baker).
Need more proof? In the article, "Zinc and Your Fertility" from Conceive Easy.com, there is a passage that basically sums up another great point of why it is so important. That passage is, "Every single cell of our body contains zinc. Zinc plays so many important roles from boosting the immune system to aiding in the production of DNA and hormones and balancing blood sugars. Even shrinking fibroids" (Hanton).
Through Pub Med, I was able to review an abstract of a small study that was conducted on 13 patients (7 women and 5 men) with malabsorption, that seemed to confirm and support the information found in the natural web articles I posted. "In the study, all the patients had low serum zinc concentrations, and the low serum zinc concentrations were suspected to mean a deficiency in zinc. All 7 of the women suffered from infertility. One of the infertile women conceived after having a gluten-free diet and receiving zinc therapy, but later miscarried" (Jameson).

 Recommended Amount of Zinc
o  30 mg – to help inflamed fibroids

I also did a post a while back on prenatal vitamins and found that many of the mainstream prenatal vitamins are missing magnesium, selenium, copper, and iodine. If you haven’t already, check out my prenatal vitamin posts. I’ve provided the links: Prenatal Vitamins: What's in Your Prenatal? and A Closer Look At Prenatal Vitamins.


Sources
1. Baker, Donielle. “Zinc and Fertility, What It Does and Why It's Important.” Natural Fertility and Wellness, Natural Fertility and Wellness, 25 June 2012, www.naturalfertilityandwellness.com/zinc-and-your-fertility/. 

2. Jameson, S. “Zinc Deficiency in the Malabsorption States: a Cause of Infertility?” Acta Medica Scandinavica. Supplementum., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1976, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1067747.           
 

3. MD, Hanton, Renee. “Zinc and Your Fertility .” Conceive Easy, LBC Health Group, 17 May 2013, www.conceiveeasy.com/get-pregnant/zinc-and-your-fertility/.                 

4. Rodriguez, Hethir. “Zinc: How Essential Is It to Your Fertility?” Natural Fertility Info.com, Natural Fertility Info, 2015, natural-fertility-info.com/zinc-fertility.html. 

Last Edited: September 29, 2018
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