Male Infertility: The Surprising Causes

The Doctors are joined by Dr. Philip Werthman, the director at the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine, who shares some surprising causes for male infertility.

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Male factor infertility was corrected for my coworker. He and his wife tried to have kids for 15 years. Then a Urologist suggested a 30 day treatment of Cipro. After 2 months his wife was pregnant! Sadly, she miscarried after about 8 weeks, likely caused by the emotional distress she experienced when her mother died unexpectedly. However, she got pregnant again in only 3 months and they now have had 2 healthy babies. It turns out my coworker probably had an undetected bacterial infection caused by something called Ureaplasma which is sometimes very difficult to detect and this was affecting his fertility. Whatever the infection was, 30 days of Cipro cleared it up. There is so much money in IVF treatments, I think the medical profession is ignoring the simple solution for SOME people.

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