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Laptop WiFi Could Damage Sperm
Radiations from WiFi connections can reduce sperm activity in up to a quarter of men, a new study has suggested.
Conrado Avendano and his team from the Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva in Cordoba also found that working on a laptop wirelessly may hamper a man’s chances of fatherhood.
The researchers took sperms from 29 men aged 26 to 45 and placed them either under a wi-fi connected laptop or away from the computer.
The laptop then uploaded and downloaded information from the Internet for four hours.
At the end of the experiment, 25 per cent of the sperm under the laptop had stopped moving and 9 per cent showed DNA damage.
By comparison, just 14 per cent of samples kept away from the wi-fi stopped moving, and just 3 percent suffered DNA damage.
Scientists from the University of Argentina believe that wireless connection creates electromagnetic radiation that damages semen.
“Our data suggest that the use of a laptop computer wirelessly connected to the internet and positioned near the male reproductive organs may decrease human sperm quality,’ the Daily Mail quoted Avendano as saying.
“At present we do not know whether this effect is induced by all laptop computers connected by WiFi to the internet or what use conditions heighten this effect,” he said.
A separate test with a laptop that was on, but not wirelessly connected, found negligible EM radiation from the machine alone.
The study has been published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
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jc
December 1, 2011 at 3:13 am
thats technology for you.
me
December 1, 2011 at 4:09 am
nothing is gud.
kalulete
December 1, 2011 at 6:33 am
tamwaishi fyonse fibi too much ukulyakwalikwata ubwafya too much sex low sperm prodution bafikamba.
Dimdwi
December 1, 2011 at 7:31 am
Such a shallow and small study, no way that could be conclusive, it’s all speculation
fKatai.P
December 1, 2011 at 7:57 am
Bufi!!”’
Nathan iris
December 1, 2011 at 8:10 am
Am sellin ma laptop 2day.
Mm
December 1, 2011 at 8:24 am
Den wil stop buying & using wirless
stansims
December 1, 2011 at 8:26 am
Nathan iris how much is your laptop sperm destroyer goig @
The Last Don
December 1, 2011 at 8:43 am
I will start wearing a belt with a magnetic buckle, so as to distort the EM wave near the my scrotum.
nsoks
December 1, 2011 at 8:48 am
IF you dont have sumthing to share or you are ignorant about the issue, better keep quite, unlike some irrelevant comments, you even know that these wave can damage you reproductive health… is it the first time that some of you have heard to this? “if cant say something just shut up”
Yashi iyo zebigi
December 1, 2011 at 9:02 am
that may be the case. all men will become impotent, reasons hot spots or I spots are everwhere. confirm the research so that we preserve our nature.
pumz
December 1, 2011 at 9:08 am
My fon has also de wifi, can it affect?
TOMBA TRIBE
December 1, 2011 at 10:04 am
Useless study…
Kaydol
December 1, 2011 at 10:18 am
Am f*cked… Please management, change the networking system for the office.. Need cable connections ASAP
LE
December 1, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Family planning next door,ili bad, we waste money to go witch doctor when it is just these technologies
Karis
December 1, 2011 at 12:36 pm
THIS CAN BE BAD IF ITS PROVED TRUE.
David
December 1, 2011 at 12:58 pm
man-made things hav both advantages & disadvantages But God-made things only hav advantages.
Hence, its no suprise at all
UMU D
December 1, 2011 at 1:33 pm
@david thumbup man
MARS
December 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Then Brain Damage, now Sperm damage. WTF
Lelo
December 1, 2011 at 4:54 pm
My Nokia 5800 xpress music has WIFI am worried now!
Onzuna
December 1, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Does it affect only when its on your laps or even when its resting on the table?
mupondo
December 1, 2011 at 10:27 pm
thnx 4 infor
Hot Cake
December 2, 2011 at 3:25 pm
WHO can publish this if it has to be taken as gospel truth.If it is true then we will have no one mustarbating.
lolest
December 10, 2011 at 3:33 am
**** me im owez on tha wifi wth ma macbook pro… **** it i ent stresssin wateva z goin hapen hapenz