There is a long-held and widespread belief that cannabis lowers a man\u2019s sperm count; a quick Google search will reveal studies claiming a correlation between THC and reduced sperm numbers, or between consuming cannabis and lower sperm concentrations. Yet a recent study from Harvard\u2019s research team reveals substantial and compelling evidence that points to a contrary conclusion.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a bit surprised to hear that consuming pot may actually\u00a0raise a man\u2019s sperm count<\/a><\/i>, you aren\u2019t alone. In fact, even the research team from Harvard that released a study earlier this month \u2014 in the medical journal\u00a0Human Reproduction<\/i><\/a>\u2014 were a bit incredulous of their discovery.<\/p>\n \u201cWe spent a good two months redoing everything, making sure that there wasn\u2019t any error in the data,\u201d co-author Dr. Jorge Chavarro, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard, said in a\u00a0press release<\/a>. \u201cWe were very, very surprised about this.\u201d<\/p>\n To gather their data, the team at Harvard tested 662 men between 2000 and 2017 who were already enrolled at the Massachusetts General Hospital Fertility Center. They collected a total of 1,143 semen samples from this group. In total, 365 of the participants reported having ever smoked pot, and those men provided the researchers with samples containing \u201csignificantly higher sperm concentration\u201d than their abstaining peers.<\/p>\n The difference was significant. Researchers found an average of 63 million sperm per milliliter of semen for cannabis smokers, compared to the participants who had never taken a hit, whose sperm count averaged 45 million sperm per milliliter of semen.<\/p>\n The Harvard team was unable to provide much of an explanation for their data, but they did suggest a correlation between smoking cannabis and higher testosterone levels (shh,\u00a0no one tell Dan Bilzerian<\/a>).<\/p>\n Dr. Feiby Nassan, one of the authors of the study, pointed out that men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to engage in risky behavior \u2014 like, say, consuming an illegal substance \u2014 which could help explain the team\u2019s findings. In the same press release, she postulated that \u201cthe relations we see between cannabis smoking, sperm counts and testosterone levels are because men with higher testosterone, within normal levels, have higher sperm counts and are more likely to smoke cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n The number of participants who admitted to having smoked may, however, have been skewed by the fact that cannabis consumption was still illegal in\u00a0Massachusetts<\/a>\u00a0at the time the study was conducted, and further complicated by the fact that only one in five participants who said they\u00a0have<\/i>\u00a0consumed pot admitted to still doing so. \u00a0Even though the Harvard study provided some substantial evidence in support of a connection between cannabis consumption and higher sperm counts, it also highlights the\u00a0lack of research<\/a>\u00a0being conducted on cannabis, and the necessity of investing more resources into scientific research to ensure definitive data and more concrete explanations.<\/p>\n After all, the scientists claiming that cannabis\u00a0reduced<\/i>\u00a0a man\u2019s sperm count used, seemingly, equally sound data.<\/p>\n \u201cThese unexpected findings from our study highlight that we know too little about the reproductive health effects of cannabis and, in fact, of the health effects in general, to make strong statements about the impact of cannabis on health, with the possible exception of mental health,\u201d lead researcher Chavarro said in the release. \u201cWe know a lot less than we think we know.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, are you a pot smoker concerned about your sperm count?<\/p>\n The post Study Shows Smoking Pot Might Not Lower Your Sperm Count After All<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
There is a long-held and widespread belief that cannabis lowers a man\u2019s sperm count; a quick Google search will reveal studies claiming a correlation between THC and reduced sperm numbers, or between consuming cannabis and lower sperm concentrations. Yet a recent study from Harvard\u2019s research team reveals substantial and compellingContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,7540,8056,25,8057,53,8058,3328,8059],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33140,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139\/revisions\/33140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}An Elevated Data Set<\/h4>\n
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