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Study: Your Netflix Binges Are Lowering Your Sperm Count

Find a different way to unwind instead - by By Elizabeth Millard
  • 11 Nov 2016
Study: Your Netflix Binges Are Lowering Your Sperm Count

Here’s one more reason to get your butt off the couch: watching too much TV can lower your sperm count, recent research from Denmark suggests.

In the study, men who logged five or more hours of TV per day had a 29 percent lower sperm concentration and 34 percent lower sperm counts than men who didn’t watch any TV.

That dip may make it more difficult to father a child, says study coauthor Laerke Priskorn of the University of Copenhagen.

 

Interestingly, men who played on the computer for the same amount of time – another activity where you remain parked on your butt – didn’t experience a drop in those semen parameters. 

Researchers aren’t sure yet what it is about TV specifically that’s so harmful to your sperm.

It’s a more passive activity than using a computer, Priskorn says, and you might take more active breaks from a computer than you would from TV.

It’s possible that all the stillness increases the temperature in your scrotum, which can mess with sperm production, she says.

The lack of exercise could also be to blame: antioxidant enzymes sparked by physical activity can help protect your developing sperm cells against damage.

Or it could just be that guys who watch a ton of TV are also more likely to be overweight or drink excessively, both of which hurt your sperm, Priskorn notes.

Your move: if you’re trying to become a dad, it doesn’t hurt to cut down on couch time. And when you do sit down to binge on your favourite show, take breaks between episodes to do something active.

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