Scientists spoke about the impact of sport on male fertility

To have a better chance of conceiving a child, Harvard experts recommend that men perform regular physical activity. After a series of studies involving volunteers, experts found that most sperm of those who engaged in weightlifting and doing exercises outdoors.

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The scientists studied 137 males. Some of them exercise regularly were more sedentary and have few moving. The analysis results showed that the slackers who performed physical activity at least 1 hour a week,   sperm quality   It was 48% less than that of active lifestyles, exercising an hour a day.

Furthermore, in semen of men who conducted outdoors over 1 5 hours weekly spermatozoa was 42% more compared with semen those bezvylazno virtually sitting room. The study's author Audrey Gaskins nefitsitom This is due to vitamin D, which is synthesized under the influence of sunlight and affect male fertility.

Interestingly, the most prolific appeared weightlifters. The quality of the sperm they had a quarter better than those who are not squeezed heavy loads.

"Sport weightlifting increases testosterone levels," - explained Gaskins. But riding a bike, in its view, on the contrary, reduces the number of sperm. "If the ride is more than 1, 5:00, male fertility due to pressure on the scrotum and genitals heat is reduced by 34%," - said the expert.

The results of a study by Harvard researchers were presented at a joint meeting of the International Federation of Fertility Societies and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Boston, wrote HealthDay. The newspaper reminds that before the publication of scientific papers in peer-reviewed professional journals conclusions Audrey Gaskins is can only be considered as preliminary.

The fact of the topic:
At the conference were presented in Boston and other work on the influence of lifestyle on their male fertility. In particular, Dr. George Chavarro of Harvard University spoke about his study in which he examined the effects of alcohol and caffeine on fertility in men.

"We examined 166 men with low sperm quality, and declare with certainty: no coffee, no alcohol did not affect sperm count," - he said.

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