It takes two to make a baby. Although a woman will carry and deliver the child, a man also has a leading role in pregnancy. For fertilization to occur, his sperm must be healthy and strong enough to reach and penetrate the woman’s egg. Fortunately, increasing your man’s baby-making ability doesn’t have to be difficult. Below are tips on how men can improve their chances of fertility.

Eat Tomatoes
By eating tomatoes this can increase male fertility by as much as 70 percent. Tomatoes contain a key nutrient lycopene that gives the fruit the bright red color, and it improves sperm count and swimming speed as well as reduces the amount of abnormal sperm. Other studies have shown that lycopene reduces diseases of the prostate and may slow down or even halt the progress of prostate cancer.

Avoid Hot Baths And Hot Tubs
Repeated exposure to high water temperatures can affect a man’s fertility.

Stop Smoking
Smoking can reduce sperm production as well as damage DNA.

Get Busy
According to one study, having sex daily produced the highest pregnancy rate but even having sex every other day produced about the same results but not having sex for more than five days may affect sperm counts adversely.

Avoid Toxins
Avoid toxins that can reduce infertility. Avoid spermicidal agents found in some lubricants as well as some commercially available water-based lubricants: Spermicidal agents found in some lubricants can decrease fertility. Some commercially water-based lubricants may inhibit sperm motility by 60 to 100 percent.

Improve Diet
Eat lots of fruits and vegetables and try to eat organic as much as possible because otherwise you’ll ingest toxins found in pesticides. Maintain your ideal weight because food deprivation in men leads to a loss of sex drive and causes structural changes to reproductive tissue leading to infertility. On the other hand, too much weight is linked to low sperm count and impotence.

Exercise
Lots of exercise such as marathon running can be a cause of infertility because it can lead to a lowered sperm count in men. But regular exercise enhances fertility by keeping body weight at normal levels as well as relieving stress and anxiety.

Take Vitamins
The most important vitamins for men to take to improve fertility are Vitamin C and zinc. Vitamin C helps prevent sperm from clumping and sticking together and zinc increases testosterone levels, sperm count and sperm motility. High zinc food sources include oysters, organ meats, lean beef, turkey, lamb, herring, wheat germ, legumes and nuts.