In the last ten years, the quality of the semen of young people from the Spanish southeast has decreased by 2 percent, according to a study carried out by researchers from the University of Murcia. Although a scientific study would be needed to know the specific causes of this data, the authors believe that lifestyle and poor diet may be behind this result.
According to a study by the World Health Organization published this year, the number of children born before term is around 15 million and continues to increase. In Spain the rate of premature births already exceeds 7 percent of births. The age of the mother, the use of fertility treatments or stress in the last months of pregnancy are some factors that appear to be related to the increase in prematurity at birth.
More and more couples are turning to assisted reproduction treatments to achieve pregnancy. Fertility problems can be due to multiple causes, but, according to experts from the Ginefiv clinic, stress does not help anything when it comes to achieving the desired parenthood.
The more carbohydrates a man takes in his daily diet, the worse the quality of his sperm. This has been demonstrated by a study from Harvard University presented at the last meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine on 200 patients undergoing in vitro fertilization.
According to research from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) published recently in the specialized journal Chem Senses, although studies on the perception of armpit sweat show that human smell does not seem to distinguish between samples from the left and right armpits, which is true is that their smells are quite different.
The male contraceptive to replace condoms and vasectomies is on the way. A compound called JQ1, originally developed as an anticancer therapy, has been shown to cause reversible infertility in mice, initially without side effects.
Yes, at least in cows. Rising temperatures have a major impact on the fertility of these animals, as recently revealed by European research on the effect of climate change on livestock. Heat stress occurs when environmental temperature, radiant energy, humidity, and wind speed create a hotter situation than the animal's thermal neutral zone temperature record.
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