Coffee 'boosts male fertility'

BBC ^ | Oct. 14, 2003 | Ania Lichtarowicz

[FairOpinion]

The finding was announced by Brazilian scientists at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting in San Antonio, where the effects of drugs on male fertility are under review.

Coffee can do more than just wake you up - it appears that men might also be giving their sperm a kickstart by drinking just a few cups a day.

This, research by a team from Sao Paulo University suggests, increases sperm motility, which could potentially improve the chances of pregnancy.

But caffeine appears to be the only drug that is good for sperm.

Tobacco has no effect on sperm quality but can lead to erectile dysfunction, the same research has found.

Smoking marijuana, though, appears to be bad for sperm and can reduce fertility.

Scientists at Buffalo University found regular smokers had significantly less seminal fluid, and a lower sperm count.

Instead of making sperm slow down and relax, marijuana makes them peak too early: they swim too fast and too soon - they literally burn out before they reach the egg.

[FairOpinion]

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[Hugin]

So if you drink coffee and smoke pot you break even?

[Aracelis]

Drink-up, fellas!

[Jeff Chandler]

I've known heavy pot smokers who didn't seem able to father children. It's probably just as well. (I'm a coffee drinker)

[etcetera]

"I've known heavy pot smokers who didn't seem able to father children."

So pot's a natural birth control for men? Spark it up and tell the ladies!

[Jeff Chandler]

So pot's a natural birth control for men?

Yeah, pot smokers eat so much junk food that they get fat and the ladies lose interest.

[Agnes Heep]

It keeps Uriah up all night.

[this_ol_patriot]

I smoke and drink lots of coffee. I guess I have a great payload but a poor delivery system.

[ppaul]

[AppyPappy]

It's like putting gas in a car that won't run.

[DainBramage]

I don't care how healthy they are, I just want to get them out of my system.

[avg_freeper]

Instead of making sperm slow down and relax, marijuana makes them peak too early: they swim too fast and too soon - they literally burn out before they reach the egg.

...continued:
Disappointed, the sperm then head over to Burger King to grab a few orders of whoppers and fries after hesitantly checking their car trunk for narco spies.

[appalachian_dweller]

From what I understand, pot lowers the sperm count.

[Rebelbase]

"Coffee 'boosts male fertility'"

I am one potent muthuh.

[Skooz]

If this were true I would have fathered my own country by now.

[PatrickHenry]

None of that decafe for me!