Fertility
experts are warning man that using a mobile for as little as an hour a day is
"cooking sperm" and lowering level significantly. The new study shows
that having a mobile phone close to the testicles - or within a foot or two of
the body - can lower sperm levels so much that conceiving could be difficult.
The
findings have led to a leading British fertility expert to advise men to stop
being addicted to mobile phones.
"If
you wear a suit to work put the mobile in your chest pocket instead of close to
your testes. It will reduce the risk of your sperm count dropping or dropping
so much."
The
study - by highly respected specialists - found that sperm levels of men who
kept their phones in their pocket during the day were seriously affected in 47
per cent of cases compare to just 11 per cent in the general population.
Professor
Martha Dirnfeld, of the Technion University in Haifa, said: "We analysed
the amount of active swimming sperm and the quality and found that it had been
reduced.
"We
think this is being caused by a heating of the sperm from the phone and by
electromagnetic activity."
The
team monitored more than 100 men attending a fertility clinic for a year.
The
quality of sperm among men in Western countries is constantly decreasing, they
found. They also found that besides men keeping their phones close to their
groin many spoke on the phone while it was charging and kept it only a few
centimetres from their bed.
Even
keeping the phone on a bedside table appears to raise lower sperm cell counts.
They
also discovered the quality of sperm among men in Western countries is
constantly decreasing and is considered crucial in 40 percent of the cases in
which couples have difficulty conceiving a child.
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