Study:
Researchers found those men who used a phone for four hours or more a day had fewer sperm and those they had moved less well and were of poorer quality.
The Ohio study involving 364 men was presented to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in New Orleans.
But a UK expert said it was unlikely the phones were to blame, as they were in use and not near the testes, and it may be being sedentary was the cause.
“If you are holding [the phone] up to your head to speak a lot, it makes no sense that it is having a direct effect on your testes ”
Dr Allan Pacey, British Fertility Society
The team from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio tested the sperm of 364 men who were being treated at fertility clinics in Mumbai, India, with their partners.
It was found that the heaviest users, those who used their phones for more than four hours a day had the lowest average sperm counts, at 50 million per milliliter (ml) and the least healthy sperm.
BBC, October 2006
Comments:
I have to disagree with Dr. Paceys statement, he over looked something very important; If a man uses a cell phone four hours a day than it is in his pocket for another 4+ hours, just at work
heavy phone users don’t turn there phones off when they are not using them.
EMF’s (electromagnetic frequencies) are sent out from the cell phone when it is turned on to find a signal constantly. The phone is in the pocket right next to the testicles turned on the entire time waiting for a call. So the link with heavy phone users may not be that they ‘talk’ on the phone that long, it is more the habit of having the phone with them, all the time, turned on.
So what to do?
No need to get all excited and throw out the phone. There is a simple solution: I found and use these little chips you can place on the phone that blocks the effects of the EMF’s on the body. You can find them at this website and also tons of EMF research and articles. I would also put some on the laptop also.
