India, Dec. 1 -- For years, pregnancy symptoms and complications - from morning sickness to pre-eclampsia - have been viewed almost entirely through the lens of a woman's health. Pre-conception advice has traditionally focused on the mother alone, but emerging research now shows that the father's health matters just as much. A man's fitness, lifestyle habits, and overall wellbeing before conception can influence the quality of his sperm - which in turn affects how the pregnancy progresses.

Dr Sermed Mezher, a family medicine physician and health content creator based out of England, has revealed that pregnancy outcomes such as morning sickness and pre-eclampsia are influenced by the father's genes just as much as the mother's. In an Inst...