The Jellybean Factory (sperm health and frequency)

UPDATED 1-3-25

Update – while frequency patterns have not added much in our results, most people do want to start off their sway using them. If you want to include frequency of release for Natural Gender Selection, this essay will help you understand the why, even though this technique hasn’t been super effective.

Important – Pink swayers, if you aren’t getting pregnant quickly, drop frequency patterns BEFORE adding attempts to boost conception. Blue swayers, the frequency pattern described in this essay will only help you conceive, so continue even if you don’t get pregnant right away.

People have a hard time wrapping their brains around how frequency patterns might sway. Here’s an analogy that can help us visualize the process a little bit.

Imagine that your husband’s entire body is a factory, making jelly beans every day. By using the raw materials he gets from the foods he eats, or chemicals that his body manufactures from those raw materials, this factory makes giant XY jelly beans that then divide into two X and two Y jelly beans apiece – one XY sperm equals four X or Y sperm in the end. This process, which takes about 72 days for a full cycle, repeats itself millions of times a day. Believe it or not, men make 1500 finished sperm per second.

At the bottom of The Jellybean Factory is a big glass jar – or two, but just to make it easier to picture we’ll imagine one glass jar (proper name – epididymis, a part of the testicles) where sperm are stored. At the end of the jar, is a spout that dispenses the jelly beans (I think we all know the proper name for the spout). Every time a man ejaculates, it contains a ‘serving’ of jelly beans that have been deposited into the “storage jar” over the course of several days. Some are older, some are newer. They are not separated into neat batches by date, but all mixed in together. Some are X, some are Y – and nothing you can do can change that fact. Both X and Y are ejaculated in roughly 50-50, every man, every time. They have to be, because of the way the sperm are formed. XY cells dividing yields half X and half Y sperm.

As the jelly beans age, they turn into licorice ones that taste bad and even when dispensed, no one wants them and they just get thrown away. These ‘licorice sperm’ tend to be poor swimmers, don’t survive long in the female body, and they’re less likely to fertilize an egg. After a while, the oldest and unhealthiest licorice ones get too stale and the materials in them are reused to make new jelly beans. There are not separate compartments for storing each day’s sperm, there are not separate batches of sperm at all. It’s all mixed in together. The factory is always running, always depositing more layers into the storage jar, at the rate of 1500 sperm per second.

As the sperm are made, they are added to the storage jar. For the sake of illustration, let’s imagine that the jelly beans formed every day are different colors and as they’re deposited, even though they aren’t in discrete batches, to some extent they do stay in layers by age. Each layer of jelly beans, is sperm that your husband is making on a daily basis. We’ll pretend that one day he makes purple, one day he makes green, one day he makes yellow, etc. He makes different amounts each day depending on how well the factory is functioning, how full the glass storage jar is, and the amount of raw materials he has available. Among these layers, about half of any given color are marked with a tiny X and half are marked with a tiny Y (because remember, that first big jelly bean he makes is a big XY that then splits into 2 X, 2 Y jelly beans) and nothing we know of can change that proportion.

While the newest layers of jelly beans are deposited on top, over time, the oldest jelly beans tend to sink to the bottom and get used up while more new ones are dropped in. Again, they are not strictly segregated by date of creation. Like when you dispense anything from that type of contraption, it’s possible that some old ones get pushed up against the sides and never manage to come out the spout, and also possible that some newer ones manage to jockey their way down a little faster than you might expect and “take cuts” ahead of some who’ve been waiting longer (you know how that whirlpool effect happens and the stuff in the middle sometimes gets pulled down faster than the stuff on the sides can.)

On average, however, the older jelly beans tend to get dispensed sooner and the newer jelly beans, later. You’d probably never get any of the newest jelly beans in a batch, because they haven’t had the time to sink to the bottom of the dispenser, but you’d never get only the oldest layer of jelly beans either – some other layers would get mixed in there as well. You would never be able to get all the jelly beans from any one layer in a single batch, or have any batches that are just one layer created on one day. Some older jelly beans will always get pushed up against the sides and turn into licorice and eventually be recycled into new jelly beans.

As a result, pink swayers, if you’re worried about the day your husband cheated on his diet, or blue swayers, if you’re remembering how your husband sat in a hot tub after you told him not to, and you are trying to count back 72 days to find out when exactly that day’s sperm is going to come out so you can just skip sex that day, don’t!! It doesn’t work that way.

Further complicating matters, the Jellybean Factory doesn’t just make or dispense a set number of jelly beans on any given day. The amount of jelly beans a man makes and dispenses depends on several different factors – most importantly for swaying, there is a limited amount of room in the dispenser. If the dispenser fills up and stays full for a really long time, he will start to make fewer jelly beans (he may experience testicular pain as well), the jelly beans may accidentally dispense themselves usually while he’s sleeping (wet dreams), and when you do dispense a batch, a LOT of jelly beans will probably come out per batch.

Since the jelly beans aren’t getting used up regularly, more of them will turn into licorice jelly beans, and the ones on the bottom will end up being a quite high percent licorice – but still, not all licorice. The whirlpool effect will ensure that some newer jelly beans make it out along with the licorice ones. This is how abstain for pink works. Many couples report they actually have very large batches of semen after abstain and people have been concerned that this could undermine their pink sway, but more of the sperm are bad and incapable of fertilizing an egg. Net result – fewer edible jelly beans, fewer sperm able to swim to/fertilize the egg. Lower viable sperm numbers = more girls.

Because our Jellybean Factory is going 24-7, there are always more layers being deposited constantly, half X and half Y. The more you take out (the more he ejaculates) the sooner the layers on top will make it to the bottom and get dispensed, so you can guarantee that if you take out servings of jelly beans pretty regularly, all your jelly beans will be fresh, with very few licorice ones. At the same time, you don’t want to take out so many jelly beans that there are hardly any left. This why you want to have sex every 2-4 days for blue – because this pattern ends up as max numbers of fresh jelly beans/sperm, and large amounts of healthy sperm = boys. Please understand, there are STILL about 50-50 X and Y sperm regardless, but more and healthier sperm, both X and Y sways blue for reasons we do not yet understand.

Blue swayers, if something happens and you go 5 days between releases, or would like to have more than one attempt in your fertile window/microwindow and/or release every other day or even 2-3 days in a row outside the fertile window on occasion, that’s FINE! That will not ruin your sway even though it is not the strict, ‘every 2-4 days’ suggestion. You can see it’s still very, very different from what pink swayers are doing (either abstaining for 7-10 days, or releasing for 7-10 days in a row before their attempts) and the occasional “slightly off” release pattern is nowhere near enough to deplete sperm numbers.

The Jellybean Factory only has a limited number of ingredients for making more jelly beans, so if you scoop out lots and lots all the time, over time there start to be fewer and fewer jelly beans per scoop (which is how frequent (daily) release and compressed frequent release might sway pink). The factory never shuts down production, so there will always be a FEW jelly beans being made. In fact, since demand seems to be high, the factory may even increase production to some extent, but by constantly dispensing the jelly beans as quickly as they can collect, you ensure that numbers stay low. Lower sperm numbers sways pink even though both X and Y are being dispensed in roughly equal numbers.

Sometimes pink swayers ask about switching from abstain to frequent (daily) release, or continuing with straight frequent (daily) release after missing a day. Avoid if possible, due to supply and demand. With abstain, the factory does shut down production to some extent, but then when you have your abstain release, it’s usually a big batch that helps to ‘clean the pipes’ and get rid of a lot of the licorice jelly beans. All of a sudden there’s room for fresh jelly beans, and unused raw materials saved up. Production will increase suddenly, and then if you have intercourse again after your abstain, you may end up with a big batch of some leftover older sperm (the factory is still trying to get rid of those!!) and a nice big batch of fresh sperm. Net result, higher sperm numbers than with just abstain.

If one were to skip a day when using frequent (daily) release, production may even be a bit higher still, because demand is higher, so if you miss a day, you end up with fresh healthy sperm that may add up quickly. In those cases, it’s better to switch to compressed frequent release (2-3 releases in a 12-24 hours, using only the last batch for insemination) because you’ll be able to better deplete numbers that way. Remember, though, that frequency has not really worked for us anyway, so it is also a possibility to simply let frequency patterns go all together. Neither of these two situations is make or break – you’ll still get about 50-50 X and Y sperm regardless. When you’re swaying (for pink especially, but also blue sway tactics like baking soda finger, baking soda douche, and Shettles timing), you may actually NEED more sperm because so much of swaying can be harmful for sperm survival.

Like any factory, things can break down and go wrong in our Jellybean Factory. Heat and pressure can cause good jelly beans to turn licorice before their time; high levels of chemicals (even mundane things like nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine) and hormones like estrogen can both reduce the factory’s production and increase the proportion of licorice jelly beans. Some men are just born with factories that are a little less effective than they should be, or their factory has become less efficient over time from aging, injury, lack of sleep, stress, or disease. All these things can reduce production and sway pink regardless of frequency of intercourse.

If you limit the amounts of ingredients the factory has coming in to begin with, your husband just cannot make as many jelly beans as he would be able to under ideal circumstances. And too many ingredients can be just as bad as not enough – too much sugar, fat, and certain nutrients like zinc can cause the equipment to malfunction, even though under ideal circumstances they actually help make jelly beans!!

Blue swayers, you want to get the factory running as efficiently as you can, providing ample amounts of high quality ingredients but not so much that the equipment gets overwhelmed (especially with mineral supplements, more is not better). Be sure to take out regular (every 2-4 days) but not overly frequent batches of jelly beans/sperm to ensure steady production and freshness. As long as the batches are regular, not too many or too few, and your husband is in good health and eating right, the odds are good that you will get large batches of fresh swimmers. Have him avoid stress, get plenty of rest, avoid heat and pressure from bike seats or tighty whiteys, limit alcohol and caffeine and STOP SMOKING, and if he works around industrial chemicals or radiation, he should take precautions to limit his exposure as much as possible. Make sure he is treated for any underlying testicular injury or disease. Be aware, having a very high pH of 9+ can actually be a symptom of underlying infections that are harmful for sperm and will sway pink regardless of pH, so if your husband has high pH naturally, don’t celebrate, blue swayers. He needs to see a doctor to rule out any infections that are causing his pH to rise while harming his sperm health.

To sway pink, you have to take out A LOT of jelly beans frequently (releasing once a day for 7-10 days or even more, OR 2-3 times a day for 2-3 days, dumping all batches, then 2-3 times a day using only the last batch for insemination), or else not take any for a long time (abstain for 7-10 days, up to 14 but no longer) and let the licorice ones add up. You may also want to limit raw materials (especially saturated fat and cholesterol for hubby) and keep the equipment in less than ideal condition by having your husband wear tighty whiteys, take hot baths, use licorice root, getting less sleep, ride a bike, etc. He does not need to stop drinking or give up caffeine for swaying – and if he smokes, of course for his health it’s better to stop but it’s not better for your sway. Of course, since these things can harm sperm, if you end up not conceiving in a timely fashion, we may need to revisit some of these sway tactics. Be sure you are dropping all the things that actively harm sperm – even frequency – before you add attempts, since one attempt has been super effective for pink.

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