article_snippet.sent: One in seven couples have trouble conceiving - and it's often not clear why.
article_snippet.sent: But one nutritionist argues that a good diet can affect the health of the sperm and the egg the sperm the egg before the sperm even meet.
article_snippet.sent: Many of us are leaving good nutrition is important for 'good' fertility until much later to start trying for a family, by which time
article_snippet.sent: us fertility may not be what our fertility was. '
article_snippet.sent: us will have been exposed to more hormone disrupting chemicals, more free radicals to damage egg and sperm quality and of course much more stress - which can have wide-ranging negative effects on us bodies.'
article_snippet.sent: She goes on to explain how the health of both the sperm and the egg - even before they meet -  can affect the outcome of the pregnancy and the health of the baby, child and even through to adulthood.
article_snippet.sent: This means how healthy and fast sperm are, and whether how healthy and fast sperm are normal-shaped.