Do Cell Phones Affect Male Fertility?
September 19, 2008 by Kristen King
Filed under Women's Health
(www.livelywomen.com) — Cell can phones have a negative impact on male fertility? Yikes!
Guys, listen up: According to new research, keeping your phone in your pocket (a tactful way of saying “close to your testicles”) while you use a hands-free device may be radiating your little spermies right out of commission. At least, that’s what the folks at Cleaveland Clinic said in a recent article published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Men who use these hands-free devices tend to carry their cell phones in their pants pocket or clipped to their belts at the waist while in talk mode. As a result, they may be exposing their testicles to damaging radiofrequency electromagnetic waves, explains Ashok Agarwal, PhD, head of the andrology laboratory and the director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Glickman Urologoical and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
“The Bluetooth devices, which many people are using these days because of health or safety concerns, may not be always so safe. There is a downside,” he says. (source)
So apparently now you have to choose between brain cancer and infertility if you want to talk use a cell phone. Will this change your phone use habits?
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