Up to 50% of infertile couples are impacted by male infertility. The goal of treatment is to optimize the numbers and quality of sperm in an effort to increase a couple’s chances of conceiving without assistance or with less invasive methods when pursuing medically-assisted fertility treatments.

Research done by the University of California system in 2006 showed that it takes more than two months for newly produced sperm to start to become detectable in ejaculated semen samples.