High Mobile phone use in Men may impact sperm count.
One of the biggest technological revolutionizations was the invention of mobile phones on 3rd April 1973 by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City. Since then this device has gone through massive changes – and still is changing – to the modern-day mobile devices. Communication is one of the biggest advantages of the mobile phone as it has eased how people interact across the world. Photo and video sharing, entertainment, organization, and even work are just but a few advantages of mobile phones.
Despite this masterpiece enhancement and development, and despite the advantages, mobile phones have several disadvantages which have several effects to the physical, emotional or even mental status of its users. In a recent research, men between ages of 18 and 22 who use their phones more than 20 times a day were found to have a 21% higher risk for a low overall sperm count. The men also were found to have a 30% higher risk for a low sperm concentration, a less important measure of sperm count in a milliliter of semen.
Men could choose to carry their cell phone in a trouser pocket, breast pocket, belt carrier or elsewhere, but over 85% of them placed their phones in their pants pocket when not in use. The biggest course of this finding is that cell phones do emit low-level radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, or RF-EMF. If those cell phones are emitting at maximum power the surrounding tissues can be heated up to 0.5 degrees Celsius or about 33 degrees Fahrenheit. Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields however, are greatly reduced when texting and highest when downloading large files, streaming audio or video, when only one or two bars are displayed, and when in a fast-moving bus, car or train.
There has been a great debate if actually those fields can actually damage male fertility. Studies in mice have found RF-EMF fields at levels similar to cell phones do lower male fertility and contribute to sperm death and changes in the tissue of the testes. However, other animal studies have not replicated those effects, and there are huge differences between humans and mice in how sperms are created. Observational studies in humans have also found that frequent use of mobile phones was connected to a decline in sperm viability as well as an impact on how the sperm swam. But those studies have been small and short. Researchers also evaluated the impact of cell phones over different periods of time.
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Results showed that men who used their phones one to five times a day or less than once a week had much higher sperm counts and concentration. As cell phone usage climbed, sperm count dropped, with the lowest levels among men using their phone 20 or more times a day. The greatest association between low sperm count and concentration and phone use were between 2005 and 2007. As companies moved from 2G up to 5G, the association weakened, in line with the corresponding decrease in the phone’s output power. Young people across the world are always on their phones, there is still researches taking place to establish if indeed usage of mobile phones have a direct effect on sperm count in men.