Selenium and Improved Sperm Motility

• The Effect of Dietary Supplements on Male Infertility in Terms of Pregnancy, Live Birth, and Sperm Parameters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-05-18
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Nutrients 17(10)
  • • Mette Peters Michaelsen
    • Michelle Poulsen
    • Anne Ahrendt Bjerregaard
    • Maria Borgstrøm
    • Lotte Kraglund Poulsen
    • Maria Bach Chortsen
    • Sahra Gatten Henriksen
    • Ulrik Schiøler Kesmodel

  • PubMed: 40431450
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17101710

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  • Improved Sperm Motility

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  selenium, carnitine, and coenzyme Q10 improved motility

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Impact of selenium and selenoproteins on idiopathic male infertility: a comprehensive review.

  • 2026-01-08
  • Review
  • Frontiers in nutrition 12
  • • Nebojša Zečević
    • Ivana Šarac
    • Milan Perović
    • Milica Zeković
    • Aleksandar Stojsavljević

  • PubMed: 41586246
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1702028

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  • Improved Sperm Motility

  • Low evidence

  most studies demonstrate a positive correlation between Se levels in both seminal plasma and blood with certain seminogram quality parameters, particularly sperm motility. These findings, along with most available clinical trials, support the potential benefits of Se supplementation for improving male infertility.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified in abstract