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Cell phones can affect sperm quality, researcher says
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by ryanborja | September 20, 2008 at 06:51 am
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- Cleveland Clinic: Phones left on talk mode in pockets can hurt quality of sperm
- Semen samples from 32 men were used in the study published Thursday
- Researchers found increase in oxidative stress in sperm exposed to cells
Overall, researchers found an increase in oxidative stress such as a significant increase in free radicals and oxidants and a decrease in antioxidants. Agarwal says that equals a decrease in sperm's quality, including motility and viability. Evidence of oxidative stress can appear under other conditions, including exposure to certain environmental pollutants or infections in the urinary genital tract.
"On average, there was an 85 percent increase in the amount of free radicals for all the subjects in the study. Free radicals have been linked to a variety of diseases in humans including cancer," said Agarwal. Free radicals have been linked to decreased sperm quality in previous studies.
However, the study does have major limitations, he acknowledged, such as the small sample size. It also was conducted in a lab and so cannot account for the protection a human body might offer, such as layers of skin, bone and tissue. Agarwal is in the early stages of further research that can model the human body's role in protecting from radio-frequency electromagnetic waves emitted from cell phones.
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at 07:35 on September 20th, 2008
It's an interesting study, but too far from real-life conditions. (Like the study where the red dye in M&Ms was toxic to mice, but only in astronomical quantities)
at 05:01 on September 21st, 2008
Yes Jordan. It looks like more studies should first be conducted in relation to this report.
And if in case they really find out the use of mobile phones pose real danger to humans, are we prepared then to just throw it away? Or are we just going to ignore the reports?
So at the moment, what we all can do is to use only the mobile phones for important concerns. Perhaps, what this report can do is to reduce talk time for those who only use the phone for gossiping, etc.