The Cell Reduces Male Fertility, Study Finds
New research from the Cleveland Clinic in the U.S., says that keeping the cell phone on talk mode in your pocket and talk over bluetooth, may affect male fertility by reducing the quantity and quality of sperm, and affect the motility and sperm motility.
This is the first U.S. study that analyzes the influence of electromagnetic radiation on sperm, but other studies such as one made in Hungary, which also revealed that the radiation emitted by cell phones can reduce male fertility by 30%.
The research results were criticized by a group of experts, objecting that were not taken into account other factors that influence the participants' lives, such as social class or age and others. They also criticized the study did not make clear whether the damaging effect is recorded when the men carry the phone in your pocket or briefcase.
In the study, researchers assessed 361 men attending an infertility clinic. Semen samples were collected for 1 year and asked all about using your phone. Those who used more than four hours per day had more serious problems. Even those men who had the phone on, even if they had used, were affected.
As indicated by Ashok Agarwal, Director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and principal investigator of the study, phone radiation could affect the gonads through a thermal effect thereby increasing the temperature of the testicles and cause harmful effects on sperm cells.
Agarwal acknowledged that the study has important limitations, such as the small sample size. Was also carried out in a laboratory and thus can not account for the protection that the human body can offer, such as layers of skin, bones and tissues.
The specialist confirmed that it is in the early stages of research, but the idea is to model the human body in a protective function of electromagnetic waves emitted by cell phones.
