“We are in a cage inside the car trunk awaiting a future in frozen food products.”
Most of the fluid in semen is made up of secretions from male accessory reproductive glands other than testicles, though only thanks to the sperm of testicles semen may derive its really magical, healthy, and healing properties. All the seminal secretions make the semen a quite unusual body fluid. The fruit of your "balls" is the mixture of sperm (spermatozoa) from the testicles (less 1 per cent of the fluid) and the secretions of the seminal vesicles (46-80 per cent of the fluid), prostate gland (13-35 per cent of the fluid), the testicles and epididymides (3-5 per cent of the fluid), and the bulbourethral and urethral glands (2-5 per cent of the fluid). During ejaculation the various secretions are released in a sequential fashion with the first fraction high in sperm concentration and with a higher fructose level in the later fractions.
The most precious -- sperm -- travel
from the testicles to the outside of the body through a series of tubes: the epididymis, the vas deferens, and the urethra. Seminal vesicles and prostate make no less precious -- seminal plasma. When ejaculation occurs, the sperm mix with seminal plasma to carry the sperm to the outside of the body. When the sperm mix with the seminal plasma during milking or ejaculation, the quality of the sperm amazingly increases or
impairs.
Compared to other body fluids seminal fluid is unusual due to its high level of potassium, zinc, citric acid, fructose, phosphorylcholine, spermine, amino acids, prostaglandins and a wide variety of enzymes. Molecules called polyamines can be found in semen as well as chemical compounds called amines, such as choline and phosphorylcholine. Cholesterol and lipids are also found in semen.
- The fluid produced by the testicles (by themselves they're coiled masses of tubes called seminiferous tubules responsible for producing sperm cells) contains spermatozoa and several chemicals, including zinc, but is particularly rich in testosterone. The major secretions of the epididymis are L-carnitine, glycero-phosphocholine, neutral alpha-glucosidase. During ejaculation, spermatozoa are taken from the distal caudaepididymidis.
- The secretions of seminal vesicles (sac-like pouches that attach to the vas deferens near the base of the bladder) are particularly rich in a sugar called fructose, which is the major secretion of the seminal vesicles, a major player in semen and the main energy source of sperm cells entirely relied on sugars from the seminal plasma for energy to move. Actually sperm seem to take sugar any way they can get it. The female cervical mucus is quite high in sugar content so the sperm essentially have two sources of sugar energy. As men age, apparently the fructose level in their semen drops. Drinking fruit juices would increase sugar content in the seminal vesicles and sweeten the semen. Hormone-like chemicals prostaglandins also arise mainly in the seminal vesicles and are emitted during ejaculation. Their pharmacologic qualities have effects in both the male and female reproductive systems. The vesicles also produce a substance that causes the semen to clot (become sticky or jelly-like) after ejaculation. Other ingredients: amino acids, citrate, enzymes, flavins, phosphorylcholine, proteins, vitamin C.
- The secretions of the prostate gland (a walnut-sized structure that is located below the urinary bladder in front of the rectum) contain several proteins grouped together under the name prostatic secretory proteins. The major secretions of the prostate are zinc,
prostatic acid, phosphatase, citric acid, prostate-specific antigen
(PSA, a catalyst that causes liquefying of the clotted semen, so that the spermatozoa can escape from it and swim off to fertilize the ovum (egg) in the woman's reproductive tract), fibrinolysin, aminopeptases, proteolytic enzymes. The prostate produces 100 times more citric acid than other soft tissue (as a result, the vitamin Concentration in the seminal fluid is eight times higher than in other parts of the body).
Prostate also has the highest concentration of zinc (95-175 micrograms/ml for healthy men) of any organ in the body (testicular levels are slightly lower). Very high levels of seminal zinc appears to arise mainly from this gland. As a result, the concentration of zincin semen is five times higher than in the rest of the body. While in the prostate, the zinc is chemically bound but after ejaculation it is dispersed throughout these minal plasma. With every ejaculation about 5 milligrams of zinc leave the body. The sperm take up zinc from the seminal fluid. Zinc is vital for sperm metabolism and it stabilizes the DNA (the precious genetic cargo in the sperm's head), helps them retain both their shape and their function. Zinc deficiency leads to testicular regression and creates glitches in sperm production.
- The secretions of bulbourethral (Cowper's glands, pea-sized structures located on the sides of the urethra just below the prostate gland) and urethral glands produce a clear, slippery fluid that empties directly into the lumen of the urethra to lubricate it. This fluid serves to lubricate the urethra (male reproductive) and to neutralize any acidity that may be present due to residual drops of urine in the urethra. Other ingredients: galactose, mucus (serve to increase the mobility of sperm cells by creating a less viscous channel for the sperm cells to swim through, and preventing their diffusion out of the semen), pre-ejaculate, sialic acid.
Chefs note: Semen contains also much garbage: a lot of cell detritus, bacteria, spores, immature blood cells, white blood cells, cells from the urinary tract. It is a miracle that the women so easily use to let the men in at all. The more healthy, younger, and multiorgasmic is a man the less garbage, toxins and allergens he represents while he is milking and churning.
• Quality of semen
