In May, America’s Food and Drug Administration approved Trak, a new “male fertility testing” system. It looks like a cross between a frisbee, a clock and a Cuisinart blender. The Trak website announces that it is “like a Fitbit for sperm”.
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9 Things that Can Lower Your Sperm Count and Lead to Infertility
While you may not worry about fertility and your sperm count unless you’re trying to have babies, you would be surprised to know how these nine factors could potentially harm male fertility.
Researchers Call for WHO Review After One-seventh Meet Normal Sperm Count
A Western Australian study of men in their 20s, published on Friday, found only one in seven met the World Health Organisation’s male fertility criteria
Protect Your Fertility With Wireless Armour, The New Smart Underwear for Men
Dudes, let’s get personal for a minute. Protecting your most valuable bodily assets from the potentially harmful side effects of electromagnetic radiation is becoming more and more difficult in this digital day and age. In order to stay connected to your work, your dates, or your family, you’re constantly carrying around a cellphone in your pants pocket or balancing a laptop on your knee. But with recent studies suggesting a more concrete link between the radiation emitted by these devices and reduced fertility, it seems that the technology that should make you a more desirable mate is also stabbing you in the back. That’s why you need Wireless Armour, the underwear “that aims to protect male fertility against 99.9 percent of harmful electromagnetic radiation emitted by Wi-Fi devices including smartphones and laptops.”
Are Car Dashboards, Frying Pans and Sunscreen Devastating Men’s Fertility? Modern Life ‘Poses Threat to Fatherhood for Three Out of Four Males
Sunscreen and other everyday items could be damaging male fertility, a scientist has warned. He claims potentially dangerous chemicals in everything from waterproof jackets to car dashboards and frying pans are poisoning men’s chances of fatherhood. Just one in four men now has good quality sperm and male fertility is declining across Europe, the new analysis shows.
Healthy Living: Male Infertility: The Other Half of the Equation
When you think about the subject of infertility, it is customary to focus on the challenges faced by women who may have to suffer though an expensive and physically demanding process known as In-Vitro Fertilization. This long road entails procedures to harvest the eggs from the ovaries, implant the embryos in the uterus and then carry a stressful pregnancy, frequently complicated by multiple gestations and the risk of miscarriage to term. However, as we all know, it ‘takes two to tango’ and often there is less discussion and awareness of the male side of the equation. Indeed, it is estimated that 40-50% of human infertility can be explained by ‘male factors’, and science is increasingly gaining insight into the requirements necessary for healthy male fertility.
It’s Nobody’s Fault: Vengefully Gleeful Stories About Male Infertility Distract From the Real Problem
Male fertility is a new epidemic, at least if you’ve seen the news coverage. This burgeoning crisis seems to be related to the effects of age, inspiring headlines such as: “Men Also Suffer Age-Related Infertility,” “Too Old to Be a Dad,” “High Manxiety: Thirtysomething Men Are the New Neurotic Singles,” and my favorite, “The Male Biological Clock—It’s Tick-Tick-Ticking Too.”
Scientists Find a Protein That Controls DNA Organization During Sperm Development
Infertility is generally thought of as a woman’s problem. In fact, more than 3 million men across America also experience it. Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced last week a key event during sperm development that is essential for male fertility. A team led by CSHL Professor Alea Mills, formerly of Hamilton, explains how a protein controls DNA packaging to protect a man’s genetic information.
Researcher Explores the Invisible, Ignored Epidemic of Male Infertility
Culturally speaking, infertile men are invisible. That’s the finding of Cambridge University medical sociologist Liberty Walther Barnes, who spent six years tracking patients of five U.S. male fertility clinics and found that more than half of the men she tracked did not consider themselves infertile— despite trying to impregnate their wives for more than a year and having a low or zero sperm count.
My Wife and I are Trying to Get Pregnant. How Do I Improve My Sperm Health?
Focusing on male fertility, there are three things to consider: sperm quantity, quality and motility.