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Unfortunately, no matter how good the iSperm is at visualizing sperm, that's not actually going to help most men get to the roots of their fertility issues. Sperm count and motility don't cover all the factors involved in basic sperm analysis—liquefaction time, total ejaculate volume, the presence of white blood cells and fructose, and the direction of sperm all deserve consideration as well, but can't be traced by the iSperm or other male home fertility kits. Sperm analysis is just a frontline test; it can't really detect fertility or infertility on its own."[Sperm analysis] is very misused in that way," Dr. Dolores Lamb, a professor of urology specializing in fertility issues at the Baylor College of Medicine, told VICE. "You could only be guaranteed that a man is infertile if he has no sperm in his ejaculate… [Conversely] you could have perfectly normal looking sperm, number, shape, motility, and so on, but if they can't penetrate the egg, then you would still be infertile.""Humans are unique in that the men have just horrible-shaped sperm. They have lots of abnormal ones with two heads, two tails, all types of weird shapes." —Dr. Dolores Lamb
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