One of the most important things you can do to help prevent serious birth defects in your baby is to get enough folic acid every day - especially before conception and during early pregnancy. [Skip to Content]
Those who admitted to regularly smoking pot had a sperm count that was 29 percent lower than those who reported lighter use or didnât smoke at all. Meanwhile, men who used other recreational drugs alongside marijuana had sperm counts reduced by 55 percent and sperm concentrations reduced by 52 percent. Pot smokers were also found to have higher levels of testosterone within the same range as cigarette smokers.
If this is a concern, he can go to the doctor for a sperm count and motility assessment. Optimally, a couple will want the results of the assessment to show that the man has sperm count levels that are between 40 and 300 million sperm per milliliter of semen. A semen sample with less than 20 million sperm per milliliter is considered to have a low sperm count.