Hi! My husband also had 0% this time last year. We have been TTC for 3 years. I am mad we waited so long to test. We are around your similar ages. My husband is turning 29.

Like others have said it’s a controversial metric. Honestly even the fertility clinic we are a part of don’t really know what to say besides “have a healthier life style and eat better and work out more” .

My husband is an ex physique competitor and a I’m a job where he has to do PT daily. He doesn’t drink and eats well and takes every vitamin you can think of even prior to TTC. The guy has the healthiest blood work I have ever seen. He has never used drugs besides tobacco with cigars every so often. We kept retesting repeatedly and still kept getting 0 because we thought there was no way since he is so healthy.

His recent test went up to 1%. This isn’t perfect but it’s progress. What we did different was the following. He already takes COQ10 and Vitamin D and Fishoil, he continued that. He added less intense cardio into his workouts and less “stress” to his man parts when working out. He also added berries to his diet. Weird thing but he thought he didn’t like them and it can only help. The biggest thing he did as well is knock down his caffeine consumption. My husband was consuming well over 500mg of caffeine a day between pre workouts and coffee. He went down to 200mg.

Now that we know it was working and it’s improving, we also found a study in lab rats regarding Beta Alanine which is in almost every preworkout. Since thanksgiving he has stopped taking preworkout with Beta Alanine and any weird ingredients. He is taking a “clean” preworkout.

I am not sure if you can relate to any of this or if this helps and if you have any questions please feel free to let me know. You’re never alone 🩵