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Daily Sex Helps Improve Fertility
mmmscience writes "While fertility studies lately seem to have been exclusively focused on in vitro fertilization [IVF], new data coming out of Australia may help with unaided successful conceptions. The study has found that men who have ejaculate daily produce sperm with less damaged DNA. While such actions decrease sperm concentration, it does increase motility, meaning healthier sperm have a better chance of making it all the way to the egg. Good news, as another report has found severe chromosome abnormalities in over 90% of IVF eggs, meaning artificial insemination is just now discovering a whole new field of problems."
Does masturbation count?
Yes
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We have noticed. It is one of the reasons that multiple eggs are implanted, since so few of them are viable.
This is related to why we have so many multiple births from IVF -- sometimes 2 or more of the implanted eggs are viable.
Also note that IVF is done primarily when people have trouble conceiving normally, so incidence of abnormality should be high anyway... perhaps these abnormalities are part of the infertility issues that brought the patients to the fertility specialist in the first place.
Someone I know very well has tried IVF twice... out of all the eggs that it was tried with (I think 6 or 8 each time), only one egg was viable... and that one miscarried during week 5.
It's really not surprising to anyone who's been through it or has had frank discussions with someone who has.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
You can count my DNA will be *great*, as I wank atleast 4 times a day.
Not to be all Jenny Mcarthy on you, because I don't agree with her opinions on vaccinations, but many autistic kids benefit greatly from a gluten free diet. FWIW, I have no medical background other than that I happen to be celiac (which I know makes me inherently biased towards GF) and am a huge nerd who reads lots of boring research. Not implying that gluten is a 'cause', as you say, but just that the diet seems to work very well for many with autism. You've very likely heard of/explored that option, but thought I'd throw that out there just in case.
I admire you very much for your honesty, particularly about your initial feelings about your situation. I'm very glad you are in a good place. I wish you and yours the best.
Sweet informative mod.
actually... Fellatio does help. http://www.momlogic.com/2009/06/is_oral_sex_good_for_your_fetu.php
Well, at least they taste better...
If you look at the link to the so-called "refuting" article, it is about an entirely different topic, morning sickness. The text "oral" and "sex" do not appear in the article. The text "semen" appears, but only as a subset of the word advertisement!
I put the 't' in electrical engineering.
Meanwhile, this article pretty well describes the reason that most slashdotters have (or will soon have) pattern baldness:
http://www.steadyhealth.com/articles/Consequences_of_over_masturbation_a589_f0.html
Did you happen to catch the part of the article that says that's a myth?
This is something I believe in as well. A well used prostate, either sex or wanking, keeps the sperm on the move. When they hang about, they degrade and degenerate potentially causing damage to the prostate and opening yourself up to cancer.
At 52 when lots of folk are complaining about slow stream and poor PSAs, I'm not having any of those problems.
[John]
Shit better not happen!
TFA says it's 90% of embryos, not eggs. That makes a difference!
You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!