Toxoplasma gondii parasite (from cats) decapitates sperm and causes pregnancy complications (Vitamin D fights it)

Four PDFs by Perplexity AI - June 2025

📄 Toxoplasma gondii: A Comprehensive Overview

📄 Can Toxoplasma gondii Decapitate Sperm?

📄 Does Vitamin D Fight Toxoplasma gondii?

📄 Toxoplasma gondii and Pregnancy Problems?

📄 Vitamin D and Its Antiparasitic Effects

• Clipped from the summary: "The vitamin shows effectiveness against various parasites including Toxoplasma gondii, certain Leishmania species, intestinal parasites like Iodamoeba and Cyclospora, Giardia lamblia, Trichinella spiralis, and Plasmodium species causing malaria. Additionally, vitamin D exhibits antifungal properties against Candida species. "

VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D is needed for human fertility – goal is 50 ng – Sept 2018

• Birth rates doubled with Vitamin D - 300,000 IU for infertile men – RCT Nov 2017

• Male fertility 4 X higher if high Vitamin D – Nov 2015

• Best fertility if high level of vitamin D 3 months before ejaculation - May 2025

• Higher vitamin D results in 22% fewer abnormal sperm (Mendelian analysis) – May 2024

• Infertile patients 1.7X more-likely to become pregnant if take Vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2023

• Unknown cause (idopathic) for male Infertility appears to be low vitamin D (9 X) – Sept 2022

• Vitamin D and malaria – many studies

• Yeast Infection (Candida etc.) and Vitamin D - many studies

• Leishmaniasis (from sand flea) might be fought by Vitamin D - several studies