Questions tagged [fertility]
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Does marrying a relative confer fertility benefits?
While doing research today I run into this piece:
An Association Between the Kinship
and Fertility of Human Couples
Previous studies have reported that related human couples tend to produce more children than
unrelated couples but have been…
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Is the egg much more active during conception than commonly assumed?
David H. Freedman writes in New Theory on How The Aggressive Egg Attracts Sperm:
As they mill around, the egg selects one and reels it in, pinning it down in spite of its efforts to escape. It’s no contest, really. The gigantic, hardy egg yanks…
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Can an ovulation calculator increase your likelihood of getting pregnant?
An ovulation calculator is something that apears on most pregnancy and baby sites on the internet. Searching for the term "ovulation calculator" on Google produces over 2 million results.
This "tool" is supposed to indicate when during a woman's…
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Does keeping phone in the front pocket cause male infertility?
According to this article supposedly keeping your smartphone in the front pocket can cause infertility in men.
According to Lilly Friedman, MD, this is actually the worst place to
store your cell phone. “When cell phones are on, connected to…
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Do 38% of couples conceive within one month of trying to conceive?
This article has the following claims about success rates of couples trying to conceive.
One study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, followed women
who were trying to get pregnant by having sex at the time in their
monthly cycle when…
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Do cellphones damage male fertility?
According to this article wearing cellphones in the front pocket can cause men lose their fertility.
Men using a cellular phone for more than one hour a day double the
risk of their sperm count dropping to levels too low for procreation,
according…
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Are cell phones harmful to male fertility if kept in trousers pocket?
Several studies or press articles suggest that keeping a cell phone in a male's trousers pocket (and cell phone usage in general) may harm that men's fertility (increase sperm issues):…
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