Cell Phones May Kill Sperm
LONDON — A recent study has reported that heavy use of mobile phones may damage men’s fertility. Research indicates that men who used a cell phone for an average of four or more hours a day had fewer sperm. Additionally, their sperm moved slowly and were of poorer quality.
The Ohio study, which involved 364 men, was presented to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in New Orleans.
Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio tested sperm samples from 364 men while they were being treated at fertility clinics in Mumbai, India, with their partners. It was found that those who use their cell phones for more than four hours a day had the lowest average sperm counts.
Men who used cell phones for 2-4 hours a day had an average sperm count of 69 million per milliliter and had moderately healthy sperm. Those who didn’t use them at all had the highest average sperms counts at 86 million per milliliter. Theirs was the highest quality seen as well, as the BBC reported.
"There was a significant increase in the most important measures of sperm health and that should definitely be reflected in a decrease in fertility, which is seen worldwide,” said Dr. Ashok Agarwal, who led the research. "People use mobile phones without thinking twice what the consequences might be. It is just like using a toothbrush, but mobiles could be having a devastating effect on fertility. It still has to be proved, but it could be having a huge impact because mobiles are so much part of lives."
Dr. Agarwal suggested that the radiation from mobile phones may harm the sperm by damaging DNA by affecting the cells in the testes which produce testosterone.
But Dr. Allan Pacey, a UK expert for the British Fertility Society, said that it was unlikely that cell phones were to blame as they are not near the testes while in use. He believes that it is being sedentary that’s the cause.
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The Ohio study, which involved 364 men, was presented to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in New Orleans.
Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio tested sperm samples from 364 men while they were being treated at fertility clinics in Mumbai, India, with their partners. It was found that those who use their cell phones for more than four hours a day had the lowest average sperm counts.
Men who used cell phones for 2-4 hours a day had an average sperm count of 69 million per milliliter and had moderately healthy sperm. Those who didn’t use them at all had the highest average sperms counts at 86 million per milliliter. Theirs was the highest quality seen as well, as the BBC reported.
"There was a significant increase in the most important measures of sperm health and that should definitely be reflected in a decrease in fertility, which is seen worldwide,” said Dr. Ashok Agarwal, who led the research. "People use mobile phones without thinking twice what the consequences might be. It is just like using a toothbrush, but mobiles could be having a devastating effect on fertility. It still has to be proved, but it could be having a huge impact because mobiles are so much part of lives."
Dr. Agarwal suggested that the radiation from mobile phones may harm the sperm by damaging DNA by affecting the cells in the testes which produce testosterone.
But Dr. Allan Pacey, a UK expert for the British Fertility Society, said that it was unlikely that cell phones were to blame as they are not near the testes while in use. He believes that it is being sedentary that’s the cause.
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