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Effect of antioxidant supplementation containing L-carnitine on semen parameters: a prospective interventional study
Leila Nazari1, Saghar Salehpour1, Sedighe Hosseini1
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Objective:
One of the remarkable causes of infertility in men is oxidative stress having a reducing effect on their reproductive function. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of supplementation with antioxidants and L-Carnitine (contained in Androferti) on semen parameters.
Methods:
We included 180 infertile male patients diagnosed with idiopathic oligoastenoteratozoospermia (OAT) in this study, and we analyzed the semen sample from 59 patients before and after oral antioxidant treatment, with the commercial name of Androferti (containing 1500 mg of L-Carnitine, 60 mg of vitamin C, 20 mg of coenzyme Q10, 10 mg of vitamin E, 10 mg of zinc, 200 µg of vitamin B9, 50 µg of selenium, 1 µg of vitamin B12). All of the patients received Androferti twice a day for 3 months.
Results:
There were significant improvements in the sperm concentration (p=0.004) after the antioxidant supplementation. There was also a meaningfully improvement in sperm morphology (p=0.01) after treatment. However, sperm motility was not significantly altered after antioxidant treatment (p=0.2).
Conclusions:
Antioxidants supplementation containing 1500 mg L-carnitine can improve the semen quality in infertile men diagnosed with idiopathic OAT. However, further studies are required to determine the antioxidant effects on reproduction function.
