Men , We are getting Redundant !

An excerpt From AIIMS research

 Enjoying a long sauna, reaching for a tight pair of trendy jeans and working on a laptop balanced on the thighs might have side-effects that have not crossed the minds of most males — these lifestyle factors are now being linked to a dramatic fall in fertility of north Indian men.

A study conducted by AIIMS has revealed that the sperm count of a normal adult male in India, which used to be 60 million per ml around 30 years ago, has plunged to a third of that count — to around 20 million per ml. And this relatively swift decline in sperm count is being linked to habits which expose the scrotum to higher-than-normal temperatures.

The 10-year-long study, funded by ICMR and conducted by AIIMS associate professor Dr Rima Dada, questioned 1,000 men from north India and found that lifestyle factors like tight clothing, hot tub dips and long visits to the sauna, pesticide exposure due to intensive gardening or farming as well as increased obesity rates were major causes for decreasing sperm count.

Dada told TOI, "Tight-fit denim trousers result in tightly encased groins, causing the testicles to be pressed back into the warmth of the body. Obesity is also a major factor for this decrease in sperm production. Sudden weight gain leads to increase in abdominal fat, which causes high testicular temperature." Stress is another factor that lowers the sperm count, she said.

An earlier State University of New York study showed how laptops damage fertility. Laptops reached internal operating temperatures of over 70 degrees C and because they are frequently positioned close to the scrotum, the user sits with his thighs close together. This, too, traps the scrotum between the thighs.

 

Another News flash from BBC

Scientists say they have successfully made immature sperm cells from human bone marrow samples.

If these can be grown into fully developed sperm, which the researchers hope to do within five years, they may be useful in fertility treatments.

But experts have warned the findings from the German study should be interpreted with caution at this very early stage.

And proposed new laws would ban their use in fertility treatments in the UK.

This means that they could synthesise sperm from a woman too , bypassing the biological need for a man.

Soon Men won't be required at all , or atleast these researchers would like us to believe that.

 

So all you jeans wearing Laptop toting men , beware !You are literally frying your family jewels ! (And they are not meant to be fried !)

 

So men , I propose that we all wear Mundus or lungis .Even Brad Pitt has worn a lungi. Maybe we can adopt togas and prevent our extinction and delay making the earth a heaven to live in !