Male infertility: lifestyle factors and holistic, complementary, and alternative therapies
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Male infertility: lifestyle factors and holistic, complementary, and alternative therapies.
While we may be comfortable with an allopathic approach to male infertility, we are also responsible for knowledge about lifestyle modifications and holistic, complementary, and alternative therapies that are used by many of our patients. This paper provides an evidence-based review separating fact from fiction for several of these therapies. There is sufficient literature to support weight red...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Andrology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1008-682X
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682x.175779