Male infertility: Nutritional and environmental considerations

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 28-38

  Sinclair, Steven ^a,b  

^a Green Valley Health ^*

^b Green Valley Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; CARNITINE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SELENIUM; UBIDECARENONE; ZINC;

ACUPUNCTURE; DIET THERAPY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034008360     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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