Fertility is a team sport™

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Years of research
10+ years of clinical use and refinement in real-world fertility care settings

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Satisfied Patients
10,000+ satisfied patients from real-world fertility care settings

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Clinical Studies
Third-party, independently-funded clinical study evaluating ingredient effects on sperm epigenetic health biomarkers

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Physician Partners
We work directly with industry leading fertility physicians supporting thousands of patients every year

Physician Formulated

AlphaSperm is based on the newest science. The formula resulted from years of research and refinement by a team of medical professionals and nutrition experts.
Paul Turek M.D.
Co-founder and Chief Scientist

Paul Turek M.D.

Co-founder and Chief Scientist

Dr. Paul Turek is a Stanford Medical School trained, board-certified urologist and former Full Professor and Endowed Chair in Urology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). As the inventor of sperm mapping, he is recognized as one of the world's top male reproductive health and fertility physicians and surgeons.

Dr. Turek founded the world-renowned Turek Clinics in Beverly Hills, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He is also a founding member of Clinic by the Bay, which provides 100% free medical care for the working uninsured. Every year, his clinical and surgical work in male reproduction and sexual health helps thousands of severely fertility-challenged couples from all parts of the globe successfully conceive children.

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Eduardo Dolhun M.D.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Eduardo Dolhun M.D.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Eduardo Peña Dolhun is a Mayo Clinic educated and trained, board-certified family physician. He is adjunct professor Department of Family Medicine at USC and adjunct professor in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University. Dr. Dolhun also completed three fellowships, including family medicine Ob-Gyn and has delivered more than 200 In 2005, he founded Dolhun Clinic, a private medical practice in the heart of San Francisco. Dr. Dolhun provides guidance to the company on subjects ranging from general medicine to micronutrients to hydration and health.

As part of his efforts to improve lives through hydration and nutrition, Dr. Dolhun invented DripDrop ORS, a patented next-generation oral rehydration solution. Seeing the success of DripDrop as a mission-based company dedicated to changing minds about hydration, Dr. Turek reached out to Dr. Dolhun to help found a company with the mission of changing attitudes about having babies. Namely, he wanted to change the prevailing bias in medicine that puts the onus for having a healthy child entirely on women.

Having delivered more than 200 babies in his career, that mission resonated with Dr. Dolhun, and he joined his long-time colleague to co-found AlphaSperm. In the process, he learned such things as creating sperm, spermatogenesis, takes approximately six months and during the preconception period the man has a responsibility to optimize his health. In fact, when he decided to embark on the adventure of having a baby as a single father, Dr. Dolhun leveraged things he had learned working with Dr. Turek to take control of his own preconception/pre-natal health.

As a disaster medicine specialist, Dr. Dolhun has traveled to provide relief to survivors of earthquakes, floods, typhoons, tornadoes, wildfires, and war in more than 13 countries. He is the 2012 recipient of Marquette University’s Service to the Community Award and the 2017 recipient of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Humanitarian Award. Dr. Dolhun continues his humanitarian work through Doctors Outreach, which he founded.
Guy Ringler M.D.
Scientific Advisor

Guy Ringler M.D.

Scientific Advisor

Guy Ringler M.D. (Scientific Advisor) is a University of Pennsylvania trained, board-certified reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist who has served on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine. During more than 30 years of clinical practice, he was responsible for helping patients conceive some of the first IVF babies.

Talk With Turek

See the latest from Dr. Paul Turek, our co-founder and chief scientist at AlphaSperm

Men Don't Ask for Help: Here's Why That's Killing Them | Dennis Barbour (Ep. 16)

Snipped at 35: The Stigma Around Childless Vasectomies | Jordan Temple | Talk with Turek (Ep.15)

Men’s Health Below the Belt: Lumps, Bumps, and When to Worry | Talk with Turek (Ep. 14)

Premium, purely natural

AlphaSperm combines the best science and the highest-quality ingredients to promote good sperm health. It also includes powerful antioxidants that protect the delicate DNA cargo from damage during the sperm’s journey to the egg.
Vitamin E

Considered a major antioxidant, vitamin E is found in 10-fold higher concentration in semen than in blood. It is a work-horse for controlling co-called “oxidative stress” in sperm.

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Selenium

This mineral is critical for the development of sperm motility and is a major determinant of normal sperm shape or morphology. It is also a nonenzymatic antioxidant. Dr Turek published the only randomized, controlled trial in humans that examined the effect of high and low selenium levels on sperm motility. The incorporation of selenium in Alpha Sperm is based on this research.

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Maca root

An Andean plant in the mustard family, it was first isolated and cultivated in Peru over 2000 years ago. Maca root has been ascribed many medicinal properties, including improving sexual desire and erectile function in men.

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Zinc

Zinc represents one of the most essential factors in sperm quality and male fertility. Its benefits include antioxidant qualities, helping to balance hormones, and maintaining the health of reproductive organs. An essential mineral, it supports over 100 enzymes and coenzymes
involved in DNA and protein synthesis.

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Coenzyme CoQ10

This vital compound exists in all tissues in the body, but is found in particularly high amounts in sperm mitochondria and plays a key role in energy production and sperm motility. It is also a powerful non-enzymatic antioxidant.

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Lycopene

Derived mainly from tomatoes, and essential for photosynthesis in many plants, lycopene is an extremely powerful oxidant-quencher that is found in high concentrations in the testicle and in the semen. Lower lycopene levels in semen have been shown to correlate with male infertility.

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Vitamin A

Considered the major "antioxidant group," these three vitamins are found in 10-fold higher doses in semen than blood. They are work-horses in controlling what’s called “oxidative stress” in sperm. Sperm are unique in that they are a small, high energy cell that move rapidly, which is very unique in the body. Due to their compact design, the sperm engines (mitochondria) are located right next to the passenger compartment, the delicate DNA payload. The free radicals that are generated from the energy of sperm movement are sources of “oxidative stress” and can easily damage the DNA payload, and result in infertility. Antioxidants vitamins A, C and E are great at absorbing the radical oxygen species and free radicals that are generated in sperm and that have been implicated to underlie as much as 25% of male infertility.

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Inositol

Often termed vitamin B8, it also goes by the name of myo-inositol or myo inositol, this naturally occurring substance is present at high concentrations within the testicular tubules and is involved with sperm maturation, especially chromatin compaction, mitochondrial function and energy metabolism. It also assists with sperm migration from the epididymis.

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L-Arginine

This essential amino acid is critical for nitric oxide synthesis in sperm and plays an important role in sperm metabolism, maturation and sperm DNA-packaging quality. It also contributes to the antioxidant activity in semen.

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Acetyl-L-carnitine

This water-soluble antioxidant is highly concentrated in sperm and in the epididymis. It is involved with sperm metabolism as a source of bioenergetic “fuel’ for sperm motility, especially after sperm leave the testicle and enter the epididymis for further maturation.

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Ultra high absorption

Your body cannot absorb and use many of the natural vitamins, minerals and macronutrients in AlphaSperm without help. Most nutritional supplements include carriers, also called excipients, to make their active ingredients available for use by your body (bioavailability). However, all excipients are not created equal. An oncologist (cancer doctor) and a nutritionist collaborated to develop the excipients in AlphaSperm. This is because cancer patients have a notoriously difficult time absorbing nutrients. As result, AlphaSperm provides ultra-high absorption for maximum bioavailability of its active ingredients.

AlphaSperm uses only natural excipients.

Good things sometimes come in big packages

Most commercial nutritional supplements contain synthetic vitamins and highly processed ingredients and fillers, which are cheaper and easier to produce than natural derivatives. For example, some makers use vitamin A that has been synthesized from acetone. It has taken eight years of research to pack sufficient quantities of all-natural antioxidants, micronutrients, minerals, and herbals into tablet form. This is why you may notice AlphaSperm tablets look slightly larger than a typical vitamin supplement. The ingredients are minimally processed and come from plants and other natural sources—not a chemical plant.

Leaders in the field of male reproductive health

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How to Fix Your Sad and Sluggish Sperm/The Dawning of Sperm Awareness.
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No, Your Testicles Don’t Have Taste Buds. Stop Dipping Them in Soy Sauce.
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The At-Home Sperm Freezing Spike: 7 Reasons Why More Men Are Freezing Their Assets During COVID-19.
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Understanding Male Infertility.
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Sperm Counts are Falling. This Isn’t the Reproductive Apocalypse–Yet.
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7 Common Household Appliances That May Make You Less Fertile.
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The Pros and Cons of Being an Older Dad.
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Our beginnings: A quest for equality

A group of medical professionals puzzled over the same question: Why do women take prenatal supplements and men don’t? It highlighted a lopsided view of conception held for decades. By focusing almost solely on the women’s egg, the medical establishment had left out half of the equation.

However, new science had taught these experts that healthy sperm matters. They also recognized the way men live their lives contributes not only to their fertility but also the health of their offspring. That vision sparked a quest to give men the power to shape their reproductive destinies.

A company born of the newest science

This latest science—including breakthrough discoveries in areas such as epigenetics—also spawned the AlphaSperm story. The people behind it include Paul Turek M.D., one of the world’s leading experts in male reproductive health and the founder of male reproductive health and fertility clinics in Beverly Hills, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco. Eduardo Dolhun M.D. is a Mayo Clinic educated and trained, board-certified family physician as well as an expert in micronutrients and healthy hydration. Carolyn Givens M.D is a board-certified in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She practices in San Francisco and is also on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. Natalie Ledesma MS, RDN, CSO, CLT is a board-certified specialist in oncology and nutrition at the University of California, San Francisco.

These professionals put their complementary expertise together in the quest for a way that men can regain power over their reproductive health. After five years of research, they developed the first prenatal vitamin and micronutrition supplement for men.

AlphaSperm forms the core of a philosophy around having a healthy baby. When a couple makes a baby, the man and the woman both contribute an equal amount of genetic material—23 chromosomes in the sperm and 23 chromosomes in the egg. Supporting the production of high-quality sperm—in sufficient quantities and with strong swimming skills—requires a healthy male body. Stopping tobacco, cannabis, hot baths, too much drinking, poor sleep, and poor dietary habits all represent a good place to start on a path to a successful pregnancy.

AlphaSperm — The boost modern men need to supplement a healthy reproductive lifestyle

In addition, the latest science has shown that certain vitamins, micronutrients and antioxidants contribute to healthy sperm production. Taken for a sustained period of time—from one to nine months prior to conception—a male prenatal may offer key advantages such as protecting the sperm’s precious DNA cargo from oxidative stress. AlphaSperm gives you the most essential antioxidants and micronutrients in a formula that uses only the highest-quality natural ingredients.

We hope you will join the men and women around the world who have begun sharing equally in having the most wonderful baby they can.