Cell Phone Use May Be Bad For Your Sperm 120
imaginaryelf writes, "WebMD reports that researchers have found a link between hours of cell phone use and sperm quality. 'In a study led by researchers from The Cleveland Clinic, men who used their cell phones the most had poorer sperm quality than those who used them the least.' We Slashdotters know that correlation does not equal causation, so further research is needed to understand the link, but just in case, maybe men should cut back on the hours of cell phone use?"
Got it where it counts (Score:5, Funny)
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Not sure about that; you would have to spend a lot of money on phone calls. A vasectomy might be cheaper...
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Easily solved (Score:5, Funny)
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Keeps the boys warm, too.
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Like it matters... (Score:5, Funny)
Just speculating (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Just speculating (Score:4, Interesting)
This story should have been placed in the category of "It's pathetic, laugh."
Re:Just speculating (Score:5, Interesting)
The data also comes from a fertility clinic. They took a group of patients and asked them about their cell phone use. What are the chances that there is a correlation between the people showing up having good jobs? I'm guessing if you can afford to go to a fertility clinic, you're probably not poor. If you're not poor, you have job responsibilities. If you have job responsibilities, you may have a phone for it. And if the phone gives you stress.. then the phone is indirectly causing your problem.
Is it something that correlates like that? Is it keeping your cellphone in your pocket? Is it just the fact that EVERYONE is using phones more and more theses days (and counts are dropping)?
While interesting, this study is nothing but a "Isn't this weird? We should test this more."
Now that's good science! (Score:2)
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This still merits more investigation. The first step in infertility treatment is to check the man and his sperm. Self-reporting on habits is reasonable.
Phil
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Wait... How do people who live in hot places reproduce? By mitotical process?
Temperature can be one of the answers. It's known that professional drivers have problems with sperm... It's also known that people who use +4 hours their cellphones travell a lot and most of them are stressed to. I think it's not only the cellphone, but a combination of problems that degrade the sperm quality.
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It may also have something to do with keeping in in your pocket next to your genitals all day too.
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Let's do a simple analysis:
Cell phone draws ~300 mA while in use. For conservative reasons, assume that this power is all RF. The battery is 3.6 V, so a total of 1W is being released by the phone. Since the antenna is nondirectional, the intensity
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I put the phone on his belt about 20cm from his pair of 30mm testes. (See, nip/tuck is good for some useful factoids -- Larry Hagman's character just had the oversized 40mm Magnum pair installed!) Those numbers yield a much more generous .0028 steradian target, for a total of 225 microwatts. That's almost four times your original 80 m
There's a correlation alright. (Score:5, Funny)
My sperm are the size of M&M's and they have teeth and can't be killed by conventional weapons. Do I use a cell phone all day?
Hell no. If I want someone to know something, I punch it in Morse code right on their forehead.
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What exactly is the U.S. RDA for expelling coca-cola through your nasal passages?
New nutrition guidelines... (Score:1)
A dose of coke through the nose (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know about Coke out, but a dose of coke in is about 50 mg [thegooddrugsguide.com].
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Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
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Just kidding. I don't have a daughter, I've been using my cell hpone too much for that to happen.
Birth Control (Score:4, Funny)
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That's Nothing (Score:2)
The real danger... (Score:5, Funny)
Birth Defects (Score:2)
Not to mention that "low quality" could very well mean sperm with damaged DNA, but still alive and mobile. That's worse than having no sperm at all, IMO.
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Though the vibrate setting may make up for the awkwardness.
Heh (Score:1)
I have always wondered this (Score:2)
oh well
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One of them a redhead? (Score:2)
the most important thing... (Score:3, Funny)
the down side is? (Score:1)
Nice! (Score:2)
That's great. I'm going to have to purchase more minutes. I might even try to find a pair of pants with a cellphone pocket in the front.
I've really got to get a hottub soon, too. I've wanted one of my own ever since the first time I got in one, but what REALLY sealed the deal for me was the fact that prolonged exposure to heat kills sperm. No wonder hottubs are an indispensable portion of the Californian lifestyle; if you're going to have a ton of hot sex, it's a good idea to be infertile.
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Is that a phone or are you just happy to see me?
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Now the Vatican is going to forbid cellphones.
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Meanwhile work on an EMP weapon that causes operating cell phones to explode continues apace.
Bwahahahahaha from deep inside the volcano lab is heard.....
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I've only seen a few of these types of men, usually with a bluetooth headset, and they've tended to be, well, more towards the girly side of the bell curve.
There may be a gruff, burly man who likes to chat on the phone but I haven't met him.
Just from observation, hormone levels are more likely to be causative here that non-ionizing RF.
Using it wrong (Score:2)
Hmm, I wonder if it's actually using the cell phone that's the problem, or the fact that I carry the phone around in my pants pocket. I suppose I'm sending my little swimmers micro-doses of microwave radiation. Or perhaps it's that more use means more ringing, which causes more radiation while still in the pocket. Personally, I suspect that those heavy cell phone users already had low sperm counts.
I wonder if in addit
Ow! My sperm! (Score:4, Funny)
Fry: "I dunno. Try it on me!" *zap* "Ow! My sperm!"
Bender: "Wow! Neat! Mind if I try that again?" *zap*
Fry: "Huh, didn't hurt that time."
The direct link (Score:5, Funny)
Damnit! (Score:2, Funny)
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Irony? (Score:1)
Oh, great timing (Score:2)
Off-topic: Vasectomy (Score:1)
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They actually remove a small section, and cauterize the ends! The crackling noises and smoke rising from one's nether regions during this procedure are very disconcerting.
No, I'm not kidding. But the worst part is those few seconds between jamming the needle into your sack and the local anesthetic kicking in. It's like being kicked by a lumberjack with steel-toed boots.
That sucks when they do the first side, and sucks more when the realization that you have a second ball slowly material
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Only thing that made up for the whole experience was the wash and shave job by the nurses aide before. If I could get her again would *almost* consider going through it a second time.
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Disrupts electronics and my nuts (Score:1)
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Article points out correlation, not causation. (Score:2)
--Rob
Nothing to See Here (Score:2)
So, there might be a connection? A suspected decline? They don't even know if the decline is real? This is an article about nothing.
Data Center, Radio Station Cell Phone (Score:1)
Nothing will fry your junk better than having huge EMF-emitting devices surrounding your crotchal region for eight hours a day, six days a week.
frequency matters (Score:2)
It would be strange indeed if FM radio waves, which have a very low energy per photon, could do any serious harm to a body. Little in our body resembles an antenna big enough to download them. Cell phone waves are much higher frequency, of course, but exposure to them is still nothing like our daily exposure to visible, IR, UV, radio and every other photonimal i
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You'll be hard pressed to convince me that sitting in here almost 50 hours a week isn'
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Secondly, one of the weirdnesses about quantum mechanics and chemistry that may be tripping us up here is this: photons ha
Our Precious Bodily Fluids are at Risk! (Score:2)
-- With apologies to Lionel Mandrake
Dr. Strangelove! For those who don't recognize. (Score:2)
At risk...by the cell phone companies! (Score:1)
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Send Code FGD-135 immediately. Wing Attack Plan R. Repeat. Wing Attack Plan R.
who cares? (Score:2)
Especially when.... (Score:2)
"Cell Phone Use May Be Bad For Your Sperm" (Score:3, Funny)
And if this later found to be a cause... (Score:1)
Treo?? (Score:2)
Yeah, it's a treo. Condoms are expensive.
Take that South Dakota! (Score:1)
So um... (Score:1, Interesting)
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I wish I could somehow meta-moderate Funny the guy who modded this Interesting.
Fixed Men's Club of America (Score:1)
Well in this case... (Score:2)
Planet (Score:2)
logical phallacy (Score:1)
Heh! Heh! Heh! (Wrings hands for effect) (Score:2)
Now you know why they call it generational warfare.
You've all fallen into our clever plan.
Now they tell me... (Score:2)
Still... you've got to wonder what kind of kinky phone sex would be involved to actually have radiation reach the testes in any quantity. "My penis would like a word with you... i'll put him on".
Obligatory Achewood... (Score:2)
Don't miss the "vestigal dong" story this kicked off...
Age? (Score:1)
Will the studies never end? (Score:2)
Contrary to what people seem to think, we actually have an excellent understanding of electromagnetic radiation and its effects on biological tissue. This knowledge is the foundation of things such as the microwave oven and X-ray and MRI imagin
I don't see a problem here. (Score:1)
Huzzah!
Natural selection is alive and well, it seems
Ask me about my Weiner (Score:1)
Maybe it's not such a good idea after all.
May I take a message?