If you\u2019re curious about the effects that smoking pot could\nhave on your sperm quality or count, some new research could provide answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Surprising results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A team of researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public\nHealth looked at the link between smoking pot and male fertility. The\nscientists recruited 662 male volunteers who had gone to a fertility clinic in\nBoston. All the participants were Caucasian and had a college degree. The\naverage age was 36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, the team analyzed semen samples from the men, as well\nas blood from 317 of the participants. All the men were asked to fill out a\nquestionnaire about whether or not they smoke pot and if they\u2019ve ever smoked\nmore than two joints. They found that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 55% had smoked marijuana at some point<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 44% don\u2019t smoke it anymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 11% still smoked pot<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surprisingly, the found that men who smoked pot had a higher\nconcentration of sperm than those who had never smoked it. In addition, only 5%\nof pot smokers had below-normal concentration levels, while 12% of pot smokers\nhad below-normal levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They also found that the men who smoked pot more frequently\nhad higher blood testosterone levels than the other men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Making sense of the\nfindings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the researchers admit to being surprised by the\nresults, they do say they make sense considering pot\u2019s effect on our\nendocannabinoid system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur findings were contrary to what we initially\nhypothesized,\u201d says lead author Feiby Nassan. \u201cHowever, they are consistent\nwith to different interpretations, the first being that low levels of marijuana\nuse could benefit sperm production because of its effect on the endocannabinoid\nsystem, which is known to play a role in fertility, but those benefits are lost\nwith higher levels of marijuana consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other theory is that men with higher testosterone levels\nare more likely to engage in risky behaviors, such as smoking pot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you\u2019re curious about the effects that smoking pot could have on your sperm quality or count, some new research could provide answers. Surprising results A team of researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health looked at the link between smoking pot and male fertility. The scientists recruited 662 male volunteers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[772,968,969,730,773,970],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-health","tag-fertility","tag-marijuana","tag-pot","tag-sex","tag-sperm","tag-weed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}