Another benefit of Natural Astaxanthin is its ability to help couples conceive.
In the 1990s, a company in Sweden called AstaCarotene sponsored studies of the ability
of Natural Astaxanthin to improve conception in pigs and horses. The logical conclusion
was that Natural Astaxanthin somehow worked to make the males’ sperm more potent
(Lignell and Inboor, 2000).
Researchers have recently taken the next logical step and tested Natural Astaxanthin
(as AstaCarox® by AstaCarotene) in human couples that wanted babies but couldn’t
conceive. They took twenty couples that were trying to conceive for a minimum of at
least twelve months. After three months of daily supplementation of a high dose of 16
mg per day of Natural Astaxanthin, five out of ten couples conceived. Tests of the men’s
semen showed that sperm motility, velocity and morphology improved for the men
taking Astaxanthin (Comhaire and Mahmoud, 2003, and Comhaire, et al, 2005).