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Fertil Steril. 2008 Jan;89(1):124-8. Epub 2007 May 4.
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Effect of cell phone usage on semen analysis in men attending
infertility clinic: an observational study.
Agarwal
A, Deepinder
F, Sharma
RK, Ranga
G, Li
J.
Reproductive Research Center, Glickman Urological Institute
and Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic
Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. agarwaa@...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of cell phone use on
various markers of semen quality. DESIGN: Observational study.
SETTING: Infertility clinic. PATIENT(S): Three hundred sixty-one
men undergoing infertility evaluation were divided into four
groups according to their active cell phone use: group A: no use;
group B: <2 h/day; group C: 2-4 h/day; and group D: >4
h/day. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Sperm
parameters (volume, liquefaction time, pH, viscosity, sperm
count, motility, viability, and morphology). RESULT(S): The
comparisons of mean sperm count, motility, viability, and normal
morphology among four different cell phone user groups were
statistically significant. Mean sperm motility, viability, and
normal morphology were significantly different in cell phone user
groups within two sperm count groups. The laboratory values of
the above four sperm parameters decreased in all four cell phone
user groups as the duration of daily exposure to cell phones
increased. CONCLUSION(S): Use of cell phones decrease the semen
quality in men by decreasing the sperm count, motility,
viability, and normal morphology. The decrease in sperm
parameters was dependent on the duration of daily exposure to
cell phones and independent of the initial semen quality.
PMID: 17482179 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/17482179
Fertility
A significant concern in recent years has been the connection
between mobile phone use and reducing sperm counts and motility,
or male fertility more generally. Female fertility is also a
concern, and the question arises as to what the cause is. There
are many cofactors, from coffee to pesticides and other lifestyle
factors. But mobile phones are clearly one as well.
For those who understand only that microwaves heat tissue up,
the only answer is that reduced fertility is caused by local
warming from carrying a mobile in a pocket. But do mobiles get
hotter than iPODs or bunches of keys? Do you notice your keys
getting warm near a mobile phone? Or do the regular signals from
phone to mast to maintain location, interact with metal objects
in pockets or zips, and re-radiate other frequencies? Whatever
the case, comments that there cannot be a connection between a
phone on the ear and radiation damage to the testicles are surely
short-sighted. The correlation with phone use (not
location) is becoming increasingly obvious.
So what is happening? Young people especially are frequently
seen sitting hunched over their phones, texting (which they do
three times more than adults) in their laps. And adults who use
their phones a lot? The more you use a phone, the more likely you
are to wear it, typically in a pocket or on the waist. The more
you call, the more you are likely to be called. The period of
most intense radiation from a mobile phone is up to and around
ten seconds after a mast/phone contact is established, before the
adaptive power control (APC) powers the phone down to only what
is required, in order to save on battery use. The frequent short
locating signals throughout the day are therefore at full power.
That phone, all day in the wrong place, is live and kicking,
and the chronic exposure is not just about heat. It may be about
where the phone is habitually located, or it may be a systemic
effect. Biochemical effects from the head, carried in the
bloodstream, is one possibility, or bioelectrical effects carried
in aqueous pathways is another. But for sure there is integrity
in the energy systems of the whole body [see Quantum
Jazz for a recent addition to the concept, and New
Age of Water for more about the special properties of water.]
Another intriuguing issue is that nitric oxide is a linking
factor in every aspect of electro hypersensitivity, and every
immunological and nueurological consequence attriubuted to EMF
exposure. Several of our links here make the connection between
nitric
oxide synthase stimulation and the chronic effects.
Ironically, whilst nitric oxide may extend a woman’s
fertility, it can inhibit fertilisation.
[ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=semen
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Fertility
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