{"id":199,"date":"2010-11-09T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-01-17T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:20:33","slug":"laptop-pads-cant-save-your-sperm-8899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/laptop-pads-cant-save-your-sperm-8899\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop pads can\u2019t save your sperm-8899"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research has found that men using laptops on their knees will be doing damage to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/healthguide\/infertilityindex.htm\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"40\" title=\"infertility\">fertility<\/a>, even if they use cooling pads.<\/p>\n<p>It is an accepted fact that using a hot laptop directly on your lap can increase the temperature of a man\u2019s sperm, even by just a small amount, increasing the chances that his fertility levels will be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the urology department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook monitored the scrotal temperatures of a number of subjects while they were using laptops. Some were using cooling pads; some had their knees open, while others had the laptops placed directly on the area in question.<\/p>\n<p>All the males experienced a rise in temperature, though the subjects using pads or with their knees open did see the smallest change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within 10 or 15 minutes their scrotal temperature is already above what we consider safe, but they don&#8217;t feel it,&#8221; the study leader, Dr. Yefim Sheynkin said.<\/p>\n<p>Even an increase of just one or two degrees is enough to damage sperm and reduce a man\u2019s fertility, though the doctors advise that if you must use a laptop on your lap, then keep your knees apart or use a cooling pad, as at least the options keep the temperature increase to a minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has found that men using laptops on their knees will be doing damage to their fertility, even if they use cooling pads. It is an accepted fact that using a hot laptop directly on your lap can increase the temperature of a man\u2019s sperm, even by just a small amount, increasing the chances that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2255,225,207],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infertility","tag-infertility","tag-sperm","tag-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}