Obesity Can Affect Male Fertility
Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine researchers in the United States, “fertility and infertility,” the magazine published a research report said 87 of their 19-year-old to 48-year-old healthy men were investigated and found that obese men make changes in hormone levels, Led to the decline in fertility.
The team of Eric Cook said, with a thin men, fat men in the blood levels of low testosterone, luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone is also relatively low, after the two hormones is very important for fertility.
Cook said the results show that obesity is a cause of infertility as a factor.
The team found that surveyed 87 men, have accounted for 68% of the children. Their average body mass index of 28 are overweight; men without children average body mass index of 32 are obese.
The researchers surveyed men of reproductive hormone testing found that the higher the degree of obesity, luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels lower, and the higher the level of estrogen.
The researchers explained that obesity may promote testosterone into estrogen, the hormone changes that will signal the brain to suppress luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone generation.
The researchers pointed out that past studies have shown that obesity would lead to loss of libido and erectile dysfunction occurred increased. These effects and the Institute found that the hormone might be changes in the role of the joint, weakening of the obese male fertility.
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