ALCOHOL: MAJOR FACTOR TO FERTILITY PROBLEMS

 

Regular consumption of alcohol affects fertility, especially in young people.

Study found that the more alcohol one consumes, the more quality and quantity of sperm is been reduced.

A team of researchers has it that the more alcohol drunk by young men, the worse the quality of their sperm, risking their fertility. This is according to a study published in the journal "British Medical Journal".

This conclusion was reached base on researches from researchers from the Southern University of Denmark.

With the participation of 1,221 men aged between 18 and 28 years, who carried out a questionnaire about their drinking habits. After completing the questionnaire, their semen and reproductive hormonal capacity was analyzed.

The results showed that participants who consumed an average of 11 bottles of drinks a week, recognizing the 64% of them having been drunk the previous month and 59% had been drunk more than twice.

Comparing these results with sperm analysis, they found that testosterone levels had increased, while sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), a protein that activates sex hormones, has reduced. The quality and amount of sperm has as well reduced from normal proportion due to more drinking.

This is to our knowledge, the first study among healthy young men with detailed information on the consumption of alcohol, and given the fact that young men in the Western world drink a lot, it is a public health problem and could be a contributing factor to the low amount of sperm that has been observed in Western males, the researchers say.

Many studies have shown that too much drinking is bad for overall health, but few have shown the impacts on reproductive health, except at very high levels, say researchers, who have been in medical profession for quite a long period of time.

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