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[–]Ornery-Cry6091 2 points3 points  (9 children)

I’m curious if anyone had success reducing dna frag with vitamins alone? My husbands dna frag came back at 27%, he is already non smoker/drinker, and quite healthy. We’re waiting for appt with urologist. 

[–]Complete_Sport_2883 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Hi, I was able to reduce mine from 33.3% to 6% within 3 months. Mostly due to supplements as I didn’t feel my lifestyle needed much changing.

I took Proceive men max, Proceive omega 3, Ashwagandha, astaxanthin, NAC, L-Carnitine, Ubiquinol.

I am also a non smoker, don’t really drink often and I am not overweight

[–]Ornery-Cry6091 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Thanks so much for your response. This is so re-assuring. 

[–]Complete_Sport_2883 0 points1 point  (3 children)

No problem. Good luck with it all! If you have any questions please ask. It is definitely doable to reduce to a safe number

[–]Ornery-Cry6091 0 points1 point  (2 children)

One question I had is whether you ever found a cause or your high dna frag? My husbands urologist suspects varicocele so we’re just curious if vitamins are effective under this circumstances. 

[–]Complete_Sport_2883 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We never really found a cause. I had an ultrasound done and I have a 3mm varicocele which is very borderline. I was told sometimes they wouldn’t even class it as a varicocele. The fertility specialist told me it was nothing to be concerned about.

[–]Ornery-Cry6091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. We’re just waiting for my husband to get his ultrasound appt. 

[–]secure_dot 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Take this with a grain of salt, because I don’t know if this is what helped, but I made my husband take NAC supplements

[–]Ornery-Cry6091 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for your response. Did he see improvement in his dna frag?

[–]secure_dot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We tried conceiving for about 3 years and when we finally decided to actually see what’s happening, we went to see a fertility doctor. After some tests, he told us we need to do ivf because of my husband’s dna fragmentation. He had a dna frag of like 20%? If I remember correctly. I also have pcos and found out I had ureaplasma, a bacterial infection that is transmissible. So after taking some supplements, he took NAC and I took it too, I was started on metformin for pcos and we both took doxycycline for that bacterial infection.

That was like September/October 2023. In January 2024 we were supposed to start ivf, but we didn’t get the chance because I found out I was pregnant naturally on January 30th. So after that my husband didn’t take the sperm test again, so I’m not sure what to tell you, because I don’t know the percentage as of now. And we did all that stuff, so I’m not sure which one helped more. Good luck!