[Environment and lifestyle: Impacts on male fertility?]
M Bendayan1, L Alter1, N Swierkowski-Blanchard1
1Service d'assistance médicale à la procréation-Biologie de la reproduction, hôpital de Poissy, 78300 Poissy, France; EA 7404-GIG, UFR des sciences de la santé Simone-Veil, université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris Saclay, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France.
Abstract:
In this last century, an increase of men infertility has been registered. It has been suggested that environmental factors could a negative impact over sperm quality. Among these factors, impact of environmental toxicant has been spread by media. In this review of scientific literature, we identify several environmental factors that could impact men fertility in a negative way. These factors are tobacco, marijuana, weight, body mass index, heat, nutritional state, electromagnetic waves and altitude. For each of these factors, the impact over men fertility, their mechanism, as well their influence over the use of Assisted Reproductive Technics are reported.
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