Put down the phone if you want to have kids

Posted by Kelly on Mar 07, 2008 - 05:13 pm

A fertility clinic has found a relationship between men’s cell phone use and low sperm count.  The electromagnetic radiation has been proposed to cause brain tumors, but that is under much scrutiny.  Even with this finding, there is no proof that cell phone use CAUSES poor sperm quality, but there seems to be an undeniable relationship.

In general, the researchers found, sperm count and sperm quality tended to decline as daily cell phone hours increased. Men who said they used their phones for more than four hours each day had the lowest average sperm count and the fewest normal, viable sperm.

So put down the phone!  Researchers may be unable to prove causation at the present time, but that doesn’t mean they won’t prove it eventually.  There’s so much we don’t know about technology, so it’s best to watch out for yourself and your little swimmers.