Knowledge and Gaps for Herbal Zinc in Relation to Their Role in Regulation of Male Fertility: A Review

Zinc is currently the trace minerals of greatest concern when considering the nutritional value of vegetarian. It plays several important roles in a biological system and considered as the closest thing to a nutritional aphrodisiac. In the present review various aspects related with zinc and male fertility were discussed. Zinc plays a key role in spermatogenesis from several perspectives and located primarily in the Lyding cells. It takes part in formation of spermmotility, influences directly on sperm morphology and plays an important part in capacitation. Various biological factors, heavy or regular use of alcohol, smoking and endocrine abnormalities are the major factors associated with decrease level of seminal plasma zinc level. Its bioavailability is highly influenced by phytate content of food material that makes non-vegetarian diet more preferable then vegetarian diet. Many medicinal plants as well as their products are now being use and marketed for correcting the Zinc deficiency. In present review it was realized that synergistic studies involving Zinc and phytate concentration and their impacts on sperm dynamics need to taken up.