Lifestyle factors, which include the practices we adopt in our daily life, have a significant role
in shaping our overall health. These lifestyle choices are mainly centered on personal
preferences and our surrounding social environment. In addition to lifestyle factors, we
continuously interact with our environment, which impacts physiology. Several factors have
been claimed to affect women's fertility; lifestyle-related factors, in particular, have received
great attention in the last decade. Due to societal and professional pressure, childbearing …

Our understanding of the importance of environmental and lifestyle factors on sperm count
and fertility is constrained by the extreme variation in sperm count between men and
between ejaculates. The factors responsible for this variation provide a key to understanding
what factors actually affect the sperm count. The relative importance of the various factors
and the pathways via which they affect sperm count are discussed. The most important are
Sertoli cell number, ejaculatory frequency, season, factors affecting scrotal heating (eg the …