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Men's Health

Every Oakman post tagged men's health, collected in one place.

The Brutal, Revealing Fitness Test Most Men Never See
Sperm HealthMen's Health
The fitness test most men never see is the sperm donor screening process, which rejects about 95% of applicants not because they're sick but because modern life quietly chips away at cellular health in ways a standard annual physical never catches.Think you're healthy? You hit the gym a few times a week, eat decently, and your annual physical comes back fine. But there's a different kind of health screening happening out there, one with a failure rate of about 95%. It's not for a special forces unit. It's the process... Read more...
Semen Volume Supplements: Straight Talk on What Changes Output (and What’s Mostly Hype)
Men's HealthNutrition
Semen volume responds most reliably to basics like hydration, time since your last ejaculation, sleep, and arousal level. Supplements can help in specific situations, particularly when a deficiency or high stress is involved, but they're rarely the first thing that moves the result you actually notice.Semen volume is one of the only “numbers” in men’s health you can see without a lab. That makes it weirdly powerful. If it looks like less than usual, a lot of guys assume something is wrong, or that they need a supplement.Most of the... Read more...
The Lab Report You Actually Need: Why 'Sperm Analysis' and 'Semen Analysis' Aren't the Same Test
Male FertilitySperm Health
A semen analysis examines everything in the ejaculate, including the fluid environment called seminal plasma, while a sperm analysis looks specifically at the cells themselves covering count, movement, and structure. They're not interchangeable terms, and both sets of measurements matter for understanding male fertility.When my friend Mark got his fertility workup results back, he called me confused. "They did a semen analysis," he said, "but the doctor kept talking about my sperm count. Are those different things?"Most men use these terms interchangeably. The lab slips don't help—some say "semen analysis"... Read more...
Male infertility diagnosis, explained like a real workup (not a single awkward test)
Male FertilitySperm Health
A real male infertility workup isn't one test and one verdict. It's a stepwise systems check covering medical history, a properly collected semen analysis, a physical exam, targeted hormone testing, and in some cases imaging or genetic testing, all aimed at pinpointing whether the bottleneck is sperm production, delivery, or environment.Most guys walk into fertility testing thinking it's one thing: one semen analysis, one number, one verdict. That's not how good clinicians approach it.A solid male infertility evaluation works more like a systems check. The clinic is trying to figure... Read more...