Drink and Drugs Damage Men’s Sperm

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by Dafé,

Not that you didn’t know, but there is evidence:

Mens Infertility

Health experts warn that men should not smoke, drink or take unnecessary drugs if they are planning to become fathers to avoid causing health problems for their children. That should be common sense you would think. Well, young couples trying to conceive should take heed.

Cynthia Daniels, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, an expert in the relation between a father and child’s health, said: “If I was a young man I would not drink beer, I would not be smoking when I’m trying to conceive a child.”

Matthew Anway of the University of Idaho, found that in experiments on rats, “some garden chemicals caused problems such as damaged and overgrown prostates, infertility and kidney problems, all of which were present up to four generations later.”

However, the report noted that sperm is produced continuously in a 74-day cycle, so the body does clean itself over time

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