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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."
Although if 'twice a day' helps, all of slashdot should have near perfect DNA.
Now to just find someone to spread it to..
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Health Freedom is almost as popular as Freedom itself.
While the news services have all been reporting that Daily Sex will improve fertility - surely a more accurate description would be that daily ejaculation (via whatever means) improves fertility.
Sara
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Slashdotters would be lucky to get once a month, much less daily...
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Masturbation works too.
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IVF has been around a few years. In fact, it's been around since 1978, if you want to take it back to the first test tube baby.
I'm sure if there were "severe" chromosomal abnormalities we would have noticed by now.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't any increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities associated with the procedure. But 90% chance of severe chromosomal abnormalities doesn't sound like it makes sense to me.
Are there are molecular geneticists in the house?
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Well, if frequent masturbation prevents cancer, then baby, lemme tell ya? I could CURE cancer. And now this?
I just might start selling it, now?
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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.
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It seems pretty simple to me: fresh sperm are better.
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I have an autistic son and I think that "causes of autism" are something that is used far too often. My wife and I have thought about this and we see in our son's autism some of our own traits as its forbears. Rather than the litany of plastic bottles, vaccines, carbon monoxide, indoor air pollution and other bogus causes, we now wonder if autism is actually part of a natural evolutionary response to dealing with an increasingly complex human society.
Perhaps we've evolved to deal with the fact that we are increasingly specialized, as our society feeds back into our own natural selection, and, we've reached a sort of a tipping point where autism is the next step.
We've been very fortunate in that our son has responded extremely well to aggressive therapy, all, by the way, provided by the taxpayer... (makes this old Republican rethink some of his own values). And, we wonder if, perhaps, a different sort of society might emerge from autism, that, we see it as a disability because we value our own communication so much. Perhaps autism is something that will never be cured, but, people who are autistic can move onto lead intelligent and productive lives if only there is intervention and ever better education and socialization for them and in a way that makes sense, for them.
Regardless of all of that though, I can say this. I'm proud of my son for who he is. When I first heard of his diagnosis, I almost felt like he had died and I was very angry about it. Sometimes, I admit, I still am. But, overall, if I could do it all over again, and make a choice about having an autistic child, I would gladly keep the son that I have.
I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world.
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I guessed, and confirmed upon reading, that the linked article is referring to the fact that human embryos naturally have a high rate of genetic abnormalities, and thus the fact that not every copulation during a woman's fertile period results in a pregnancy. The article explains that newer, more thorough screening mechanisms are flagging embryos that previously went undetected.
They pack plenty of eggs in there and still only get 30%-40%(if you trust numbers from US clinics selling IVF) and of those
In 2008, an analysis of the data of the National Birth Defects Study in the US found that certain birth defects were significantly more common in infants conceived with IVF, notably septal heart defects, cleft lip with or without cleft palate, esophageal atresia, and anorectal atresia; the mechanism of causality is unclear.
time for a back of the napkin calculation to not-really-but-sort-of prove my point:
10%*7(couldn't find a number for how many they fill you up with, so i made one up)*50%(other factors and multiple pregnancies counting as one) ~=30-40%
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so its really good news, and more good news (unless you wanted to use the original good news to wank more) as better screening can help increase the pregnancy rate from IVF without filling people up and risking multiple births.
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time for a back of the napkin calculation to not-really-but-sort-of prove my point:
10%*7(couldn't find a number for how many they fill you up with, so i made one up)*50%(other factors and multiple pregnancies counting as one) ~=30-40%
I think they only put in three or four at most. The Octomom had more than twice the usual number implanted.
Note: I was 13 when I wrote most of this. Take with several grains of salt.
Could that explain why wankers seem to have more kids?
The summary ends by jumping straight from IVF to artificial insemination; those are two different (though overlapping) procedures. While IVF does essentially require artificial insemination to occur, artificial insemination can happen inside the uterus as well. Artificial insemination is a commonly employed technique for infertile couples who aren't willing, interested, or financially capable of undergoing IVF.
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We were lucky. It only took us a couple of cycles - our first miscarried and we were told that it was almost certainly due to severe chromosomal abnormalities.
"Less than 30% of conceptions result in a successful pregnancy" (TFA)
I understand that statistic to mean that more than 70% of natural conceptions have chromosomal abnormalities so severe that the embryo fails to implant. I find it quite plausible that 90% of the embryos from people who are having trouble conceiving are flawed.
Incidentally, It was recommended that we have sex every second day before my appointment with myself in the little room with the magazines.
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I declare an International Fertility Week. Actually scratch that, it would probably also end up also being International Unintentional Denial of Service Week.
I realize you didn't RTFA, but you could have read the fucking summary at the very least. Your complaints are based solely off of the headline.
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Thank god! This puts to end the argument I'd been having a friend that thought peoplewho have almost no sex would have the highest fertility. I'll file this one under obvious theory ends up being right.
so i am single AND extremly furtile ?
So it doesn't really make you go blind?
however, drinking alcohol frequently and smoking damages sperm, no matter how often you "produce" sperm.
Please pretend I filled this post out with the most ridiculous anecdotal evidence to the contrary, because I have one. Also, please don't give medical advice. Soda pop does not work as a contraceptive, and the medical term for teens who swear abstinence is "parents".
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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.
"After a week of daily ejaculations, the sperm was re-measured. "
For this to make sense, they must have started out with men who don't ejaculate daily. How do you find those men?
"I think his learning difficulties are more my fault for not knowing how to teach him"
Many people don't get taught properly when they're young. Then don't end up autistic. So I would suggest you get off your cross and accept his condition for what it is, not what you want it to be and pretend that in some way he might one day get better. He won't. Deal.
I'm just off to the office toilets with a copy of The Sun to "improve my fertility".
I remember reading many (>15) years ago a study about human sperm injected into chinese hamster eggs.
The rationale is as follow: the DNA in human cells can be stained b a method called R banding or G banding, which , under the microcsope lets you look at the human genome - you can see something like 100 bands of dark and light, and there is a characteristic pattern; when you have large abnormalities, like an extra part of a chromosome, or a duplication, you see extra bands.
This technique doesn't work on sperm, because the dna is "condensed" in the sperm head' and not stainable; the dna decondenses, and becomes stainable when the sperm enter an egg
However, human eggs are hard to obtain (or harder then sperm) but you can use chinese hamster eggs; the human sperm enter the egg and the DNA becomes stainable.
When you do this, you find that some (from memory) ~ 15% of human sperm have a visible defect.
This staining technigue is quite crude - the human genome has ~ 2e9 base pairs of DNA, and you probably need something on the order of a change in 1e8 to see it with this stain, so if 15% are different by this stain....
you could argue that the above is an artifact of the chinese hamster eggs, and that if human eggs were available, the sperm would apear better
This article's advice to ejaculate every day would be an interesting combination with this article's suggestion that human sperm can help diminish wrinkles.
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Maybe the opposite is the reason for so many insane religious zealots.
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...everything.
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!
I'll bet this new info will jack off---er--up-- Fleshlight sales....
P-III at 16Hz? (The H in Hz is a capital) Was that on the toys packaging, or what? Furthermore, its "I need" instead of "I needs".
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While I don't cheer the information, the frankness impresses me.
Socks and bath towels aren't the best choice for procreation.
Didn't any of these scientists learned this little fact in high school health class. Your man batter is not like wine, it does not get better with aged; so you have to clear it out regularly to get a health fresh batch.
Too late ;p
Shouldn't have let us womin get edumacated - we can read to the end of the article all by ourselves.
Sara
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Your comment is just one more reason to be thankful that I don't live in the U. S. of A.
Then again, I wouldn't fit - not obese, don't vote along party lines like a sheeple, know the difference between capitalism and corporate welfare, between a democracy and an oligarchy, can find my country on a map, speak moe than one language, think gay marriage is fine and that God has no place in politics ... I just wouldn't fit in, neither with the "retarded republicans" nor the "retarded democrats" .... it's obvious neither party has the answers, just borrow and spend and blame everyone else and kick the can down the road for the next person to deal with.
Thinking you can fix a debt problem by doubling the debt yet again in the next 5-1/2 years is what's retarded.