Laptop Use Can Endanger Your Fertility in as Little as 10 Minutes
A study has uncovered information that may be alarming to laptop users. Using your laptop on your lap, as the product is designed to be used, can lead to scrotal damage within 10 to 15 minutes. The study, published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility, measured the heating effects of laptops on 29 men.
Researchers used temperature sensors on the scrotums of the 29 men, then placed the laptop computers on their laps. It did not take long for the temperature to rise to levels that are known to damage sperm production. After 10 to 15 minutes of laptop use, the damage was observed. This is alarming, as countless laptop users often place the laptop on their laps for hours at a time.
When testicles heat up too much, sperm production suffers. Optimally, they should remain a degree or two below body temperature. This is especially important if you are trying to conceive a child. Laptop use heats up testes at a rate of 2.5 Celsius per hour. This means that hours of daily use can really start wreaking havoc on the testicles, and inhibit sperm production to a very large degree.
Yelim Sheynkin, a urologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led the study. He was concerned about the millions of laptop users worldwide, and highlighted the fact that it is hard to notice the temperature change during laptop use.
“Millions and millions of men are using laptops now, especially those in the reproductive age range,” he said. “Within 10 or 15 minutes their scrotal temperature is already above what we consider safe, but they don’t feel it.”
Even laptop cooling pads didn’t help, the study found. The biggest factor was, surprisingly, your leg position. Computing while widely spreading your legs was found to dissipate heat most efficiently, but it would be wise to simply use a table or other hard surface instead of subjecting your genitals to damage.
It is a shame that another fertility-killer has been identified, especially after the findings that bisphenol a (BPA) was a danger to reproductive health. Now that the conclusions of this study have hit the mainstream news, laptop manufacturers will be forced to answer to their customers. If enough consumers voice their frustration with these companies, changes will certainly be made.
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"Scrotal damage" actually sounds very painful. It just made me cross my legs…
I take these ' recent studies' and their postulated but not proven results, with a big pinch of salt ! Havent we heard similar things before? That long talks on cellphones can cause brain damage, use of earphones can compound this damage rather than reduce it etc etc. ? Hard to believe that my scrotum would be boiling & I would need a research team to tell me that ! These researches help a few students get their PhDs and bring fame to the concerned Professors. Should these findings turn out true, the third world countries would have found a life-style-cure to their population problem !
Given the risk, I'd take the information seriously.
Forget the temperature, its the wi fi microwaves that are damaging the DNA in the sperm and other very sensitive reproductive cells in sensitive places ! You would not put your privates in a microwave but users have no problems putting a microwave transmitter right up against their lap……
I don't know about fertility but do know two people who have died from tumors in the thigh.
Both, one a veterinarian the other a homeopathic physician, were constantly using their laptops and the cancers progressed rapidly, all treatment ineffective.
what does it matter anyway, if youre a white man you are not going to have a mate anyway so fertility isn't even an issue. being a white man you get to watch all the available white women getting pregnant by multiple black men, so a white man might as well radiate his testicals.