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Vegetarians have much lower sperm counts

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작성일 16-02-09 14:30 | 조회 705 | 댓글 0


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완전채식인의 경우 비채식인들에 비해 정자수와 정자의 활동성이 낮다는 보고이다.

이것이 완전채식인의 경우 불임의 가능성이 높다는 의미는 아니다.

이러한 보고는 흡사, 채식인의 경우 비채식인들보다 면역세포수가 적다는 보고를

떠올리게 한다.

그러나 채식인들의 면역상태는 비 채식인보다 훨씬 좋게 나타난다.

이러한 결과들은 육류속에 포함된 콜레스테롤로 인한 스테로이드 호르몬의 과잉과

관련이 있다고 추정된다.

연구들에 의하면 채식식이에 비해 육류가 포함된 비채식식이를 하게 되면

스테로이드 호르몬들 중 특히 스트레스호르몬인 코티솔과

남성호르몬인 테스토스테론수치가 증가한다.

이것은 정자의 생성에도 영향을 줄것이다.

정자의 생성과정에는 막대한 에너지가 소모된다는 점을 주목할 필요가 있다.

우리 인간의 존재목적에 대한 이해가 뒷받침 되지 않는 상태에서

단순한 결과만으로 어떠한 판단을 하기는 어렵다.

특히나 정자생성과 인체전체에 대한 관계가 아직 초보적인 수준에 머물러 있는

현대사회에서는 더욱 그렇다.


이러한 점을 차치하고서,

채식인과 비채식인의 생리에 관한 중요한 보고라 할수 있다.




Vegetarians and vegans may be harming their chance of having children after a study found that men who do not eat meat have significantly reduced sperm counts.

Although a diet that is rich in fruit and vegetables can protect against many illnesses and can prolong life, it appears that it may also harm fertility.

Researchers at Loma Linda University Medical School, in southern California, embarked on a four-year project to find out how diets affect sperm.

The region has a high population of Seventh-Day Adventist Christians who believe that meat is impure and so are strict vegetarians.

Seventh-day Adventists live an average of 10 years longer than the American life expectancy of about 79 years and the researchers wanted to find out if their astonishing longevity might be linked to sperm quality.

However they found the opposite. Vegetarians and vegans had significantly lower sperm counts compared with meat eaters, 50 million sperm per ml compared with 70 million per ml.

They also had lower average sperm motility – the number of sperm which are active. Only one third of sperm were active for vegetarians and vegans compared with nearly 60 per cent for meat eaters.

The team believes that vitamin deficiencies may be to blame but also believe that replacing meat with soy could be responsible.

“We found that diet does significantly affect sperm quality. Vegetarian and vegan diets were associated with much lower sperm counts than omnivorous diets,” said Dr Eliza Orzylowska an obstetrician at Loma Linda University Medical Centre in California.

“Although these people are not infertile, in is likely to play a factor in conception, particularly for couples who are trying to conceive naturally. the old fashioned way.”

One factor could be diets rich in soy, the researchers hypothesis. Soy contains phyto-oestrogens which have similar properties to the female hormone oestrogen.

“The theory that we have come up with is that vegetarians are replacing meat with soy, which contains phytooestrogens and could be affecting fertility,” added Dr Orzylowska.

“For children who have grown up with those kind of diets, it may have impacted on sperm quality from puberty.


The researchers also think that vegetarians and vegans may be deficient in vitamin b12. The study compared 443 meat eaters with 26 vegetarians and five vegans.


Jorge Chavarro of Harvard University, one of the authors on the paper.

said: “There has been a lot of interest on whether pesticides may impact fertility in general.

“There is some evidence that both occupational and environmental exposure may have an adverse impact on male fertility.

“On the one hand, fruit and vegetables may have a positive effect on fertility, especially fruits very high in antioxidants.”

But he warned that pesticides in the fruit and vegetables could potentially have “opposing influences” on the good effects of antioxidants and other benefits.

The study looked at the sperm quality of 155 men who visited the Massachussetts General Fertility Centre between 2007 – 2012.

Researchers calculated whether men were likely to be high pesticide absorbers or low or medium pesticide absorbers using a US national database which evaluates how much pesticide residue is expected to remain on various foods, depending on how they are usually eaten.

An apple would be tested with its skin on, but an orange peeled.

Those with the highest intake of fruit and vegetables had 70 per cent lower quality and 68 per cent lower sperm motility.

“We found men who had the highest intakes of fruit and vegetables high in pesticide residues tended to have lower sperm quality, specifically lower total normal count and mobile count” said Dr Chavarro.

Foods considered high in pesticides include celery. Those considered low include avocados.

Both studies will be presented at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s annual meeting in Hawaii. 

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