Surprising Home Remedies To Increase Sperm Count When there is a low sperm count or inadequate amount of sperm production is seen in the male, this is one of the most common signs of male infertility as it disables the odds of one special sperm fertilize with the egg for conception. According to the World Health Organization, the normal concentration of sperm is 20 million per ml of semen. If low sperm count occurs so there are fewer than 15 million sperm per ml, also known as oligozoospermia. If there are fewer than 40 million moving sperm while ejaculation, conception problems starts. Oligoospermia is the reason of wide variety of factors like hormonal problems, infected semen, infection in the prostate gland, varicoceles (enlargement of veins within the scrotum), use of anabolic steroids, damaged sperm ducts, alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking, certain medications, toxic chemicals, heavy metal exposure and radiation, use of vaginal lubricants that tend to be toxic to spe