Why I Built ODYN

My wife and I had been trying for a year.

I kept telling myself it was probably fine. We were young. Healthy. These things just take time.

Eventually I got tested and the results came back on Valentine's Day 2025.

When I asked what the numbers meant the doctor shrugged. "You probably won't be able to have kids." His one piece of advice? “Try a supplement.” No guidance, no specifics.

Turning 30 was not going how I expected. I'd started balding . My grandfather had just died the day previous. And now this.

“You probably won’t be able to have kids.”

I walked home completely shocked with those words ringing in my ears. By the time I got there, I hit a full blown existential crisis.

Safe to say, it wasn't the most romantic Valentine's we've ever had.

The part nobody talks about

What followed wasn't just sadness. It was shame.

I felt like less of a man and husband.

I kept turning the same question over in my head:

What does it mean to "be a man" if you can't reproduce?

I didn't talk about it. I didn't know how.

Male infertility just wasn't something on my radar.

Eventually I did the only thing I could think of. I started researching. It was the only thing that made me feel less powerless.

Building my own protocol

I threw myself into the science. Researching anything I could find on what actually moves the needle on sperm health.

What I found shocked me. The supplements on the market weren't even close to what the research supported. Wrong ingredients, wrong doses.

If I was going to try to fix this, I was going to do it right.

So I worked with my sister, a registered pharmacist, to build my own protocol.

I sourced the ingredients and doses that lined up with the science. It was expensive and I felt like an old man with my pill box. But it paid off.

After 5 months

Morphology
From 0% to 3%
Concentration
From 16mil/ml to 33mil/ml
Progressive Motility
21% to 75%

These weren’t superhero numbers, but I went from zero to believing fatherhood was possible.

With that came a sense of hope I hadn't felt in a long time. And that gave me the courage to start talking about it.

Opening up about my fertility

I opened up to a few close friends. Every single one of them either had concerns about their own fertility, or knew someone who was struggling.

But being hard-as-nails MEN, we don't discuss these things openly. It's on the same comfort level as talking about your prostate.

Male factor infertility is the primary or contributing cause in up to 50% of cases and sperm counts are dropping fast.

Yet still the mental and physical load of family planning is still almost always left to women alone. They are told to prepare for pregnancy years in advance: prenatals, cycle tracking, lifestyle changes.

And men? We're sitting in saunas, drinking on weekends, completely unconcerned. Nobody ever told us we needed to think about it.

Founder of ODYN visiting production facility.

And ODYN was born

I didn't set out to build a supplement brand. And I certainly never thought I'd ever be so passionate about sperm health!

I starting with fixing my own problem and ended up realising the issue was much bigger than me.

ODYN exists for two reasons. First, to give men a supplement that's actually built on science, at the right doses, without the filler and the nonsense.

Second, and more importantly, to make male fertility something every man understands and owns.

This isn't just your partner's responsibility. It's yours.

Built from experience. Backed by science.

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