The findings suggested red meat, bread and sugary drinks lowered their
sperm counts. The hormone levels in men who ate more junk food suggested the cells which produced the sperm were permanently damaged.
Dr Weibring concluded, "Our results are promising but more studies are needed, and we still recommend sperm banking before orchiectomy as a number of patients may have low
sperm counts at the time of diagnosis that persists after postoperative treatment.
Only five percent of cannabis users had
sperm counts below 15 million/mL, the World Health Organization's (WHO) threshold for 'normal' levels, compared with 12 percent of men who had never smoked cannabis.
Only 5% of cannabis users had
sperm counts below 15 million/mL, the World Health Organisation's threshold for "normal" levels, compared with 12% of men who had never smoked cannabis.
Against the background of declining
sperm counts, stopping smoking is very important.
Compared to 1970s,
sperm counts in the predominantly white developed countries (North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand) are between 50 per cent and 60 per cent down.
A MERSEYSIDE fertility expert has explained the alarming reasons behind the "shocking" drop in men's
sperm counts.
Scientists have called some of the previous studies on
sperm count flawed.
Other fertility experts described the findings as "shocking" and warned of a "double whammy" caused by the combined effects of falling
sperm count and women in modern societies waiting until their 30s to get pregnant.
The variation in FSH was associated with a parallel variation in
sperm count, but the effect on LH was not significant (Table 1).
And the team of scientists, at the universities of Lyon and Saint-Etienne in France and Keele in the UK, found that the higher the aluminum, the lower
sperm count.