Balls, cojones, nuts, your local sidekicks, bollocks, nads, family jewels whatever you call them, testicles are very important and so is their well-being. April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, so to get into the spirit of all things ballsy, heres a quick guide on how to keep your balls nice and healthy, along with some facts that show just how special testicles are. Unlike many cancers, testicular cancer is particularly common in younger people, usually affecting men between ages 15 to 35. American Cancer Society estimates that 8,720 new cases of testicular cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year alone. Out of these, 380 men will die. The most common symptom is a painless lump on the testicle. Other less common symptoms can include a dull ache, discomfort or an unusual feeling of heaviness in the scrotum. If youre ever unsure, its always best to pay your doctor a visit. Medical professionals recommend men of any age give their testicles a small self-examination at least every month. Heres how you do it.
It takes just a few minutes and it could save your life. The statistics might be scary, but if testicular cancer is detected early there is a 95 percent survival rate. Not that youd need more reasons to take care of your testes, but here is a selection of facts in celebration of these awesome little organs: 1) Testicles create 200 million sperm every day. 2) Proportional to their size, the animal kingdoms biggest testicles belong to the tuberous bush cricket, with its testicles accounting for 14 percent of its body weight. 3) The word avocado derives from the Aztec word for testicle. The same is true for the word orchid, which is derived from the Greek for testicle. 4) Howler monkeys with smaller balls tend to have louder and deeper vocal calls. Any comparisons you want to draw are up to you. 5) Hows it hanging? Its thought the testicles are outside the human body despite the risk of having such an important organ extremely exposed to cater for their sensitivity towards temperature assperm survives best a few degrees cooler than normal body temperature. However, many mammals such as elephants, have theirs tucked up inside, neartheir kidneys. 6)Each sperm contains around 37.5 megabytes of data. Thats around 15.8 terabytes of data per average ejaculation. 7) Male right whales have testicles that weigh around 1 tonne (1.1 ton) and can produce 4.5 liters (1 gallon) of semen. 8) Theres an Icelandic brewerythat brews beer with smoked fine whale testicle. 9) Testicles have the most diverse proteins of any organ. A study found that 77 percent of all human proteins are expressed in the testicles, 999 of which were unique proteins. Thats pretty impressive, considering the human brain has around 318 unique proteins. 10) Most testicles hang at different heights. For around 65 percent of men, the right testicle always hangs higher and is marginally larger. Weirdly, the majority of Greek statues of naked men nearly always featured a larger lefty. No one’s quite sure why, although its thought to be something to with cultural beliefs about fertility and left-rightness. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/26/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-testicles/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-testicles/
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MIAMI – This city of sand and skyscrapers is rapidly emptying out as Hurricane Irma chugs toward it, but an eerie calm and a nervous curiosity abides in the stubborn and stranded folks who remain. Benjamin Garcia is in Miami on a work exchange program. He’s learning management skills at an upscale downtown hotel and has been in the Sunshine State for a little more than two months now. Earlier this week, his girlfriend Mia traveled more than 4,000 miles from Argentina to visit him.
On Friday night, both were about three beers in when Fox News caught up with them. “This is crazy,” Garcia said. “I can feel the wind shake… beneath my feet. You can feel it. Can you feel it? I need another beer, man.” Mia quipped, “You said that yesterday.” As weather forecasts and warnings about Hurricane Irma increase in intensity, the monster storm that’s beaten up the Bahamas and pounded a corner of Cuba, is heading straight for Florida. Irma’s expected to take her wrath out on the state early Sunday with speeds that could snap trees and cause catastrophic damage to the area. People up and down the coast – as well in other parts of the state- aren’t taking chances. By early afternoon, several had called it a day. Almost all of the big name chains had closed shop. Boarded up businesses and homes could be seen for miles. The interstate, going in the direction of Miami, was wide open. Naples, known for its high-end shopping and rich-green golf courses, looked more like a ghost town than a shopping hub. Many stores had closed early, letting employees go home and prepare for Irma. There were a few holdouts. At the 7-Eleven in Estero, Fla., one employee told Fox, “I’m here until the boss comes in himself and tells us to go home… and he’s not coming in any time soon.” Ft. Lauderdale was also a shell of its normal activity. But perhaps most jarring was Miami. Usually, lit up and vibrant, entire city streets sat quiet and eerily empty. Across from the Port of Miami, there were several police vehicles lined up. “We’re waiting for her,” one officer said of Irma. So was the rest of the state. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/reporters-notebook-south-florida-empty-eerie-as-stray-holdouts-await-irma/ Gas stations already sell beer, cigarettes, magazines (dirty and clean), and groceries. So what’s wrong with them selling you a little weed while you fill up your car? The new Gas and Grass in Colorado Springs, Colorado, sees nothing wrong with it. The gas station, which sits next door to a marijuana dispensary, opened last weekend and is the first convenience store of its kind. Marijuana shops in Coloradowhich legalized the drug in 2012can’t sell non-marijuana products, so the gas station and the weed store have different entrances. But because it’s all about synergy, the pot shop has learned from grocery stores that offer customers discounts on gas: People who buy marijuana at the Native Roots shop pay a reduced rate on their fuel. In order to buy the marijuana, however,one has to have a license, because the shop only sells medical marijuana. “It’s really just kind of pairing the convenience in one specific stop,” Native Roots spokesperson Tia Mattson told KOAA. “I believe we’ll have lottery tickets, beverages, cigarettes and similar things that you would pick up in a convenience store. … We definitely are leaders and we’re visionaries. It’s just one more thing for us to pair up the shopping and convenience of gas with a stop for somebody who is a patient, to knock off both errands at one time.” Now you can buy pot and petrol in the same placealong with all the munchies you could ever want. Screengrab via KRDO
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Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/25/colorado-convenience-store-is-the-first-to-offer-weed-and-gas/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/colorado-convenience-store-is-the-first-to-offer-weed-and-gas/ The British are a nation of shoppers; as Napoleon might nearly have said. And when shopping, we have a taste for the foreign. Whether that be smartphones, bookshelves from Ikea, cheap clothes from Primark, or even a Ford Focus, most of what we buy is made abroad. In fact we are a nation of importers. Even if the pound regains some of its value, currency experts expect it to remain at least 10% below where it was on 23 June, in the long term. So imported goods are about to get pricier. The only question is when – and by how much. FoodThe UK imports at least 40% of its food, according to government figures. Sainsbury’s imports 50% of what it sells, for example, with a third of it coming from the EU. If you’ve never clocked the scale of imports, look at Tesco’s apple aisle: You will find more apples from Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Holland, South Africa and France than from Britain. Its top-of- the-range potatoes come from Israel. Eventually these will all cost more – along with fish, salad ingredients, New Zealand lamb, wine, beer and even tea. In the short term all the big retailers have hedged against currency risk – in effect they’ve insured themselves against a fall in the pound – but these hedges will start to unwind next year. Production costsSome retailers may try to absorb the extra cost, by cutting their profits. “It is not certain we will see inflationary pressures passed on to customers,” says the boss of Sainsbury’s, Mike Coupe. But retailers’ profit margins are so thin, this may not be possible, according to Andrew Stevens, of Verdict Research. “In the face of inevitable cost inflation, the grocers now have very little option but to raise prices for consumers,” he says in a research note. In the long run there may be further pressure on prices, according to what sort of trade deal is eventually negotiated with the EU. Any reduction in subsidies for British farmers, as a result of leaving the Common Agricultural Policy, could also push prices up. And what about the EU migrants who pick our home-grown fruit and vegetables on low wages? “Without the freedom of movement, the cost of producing food in the UK will come under further upward pressure,” says Andrew Stevens. Clothing and footwearThe fashion industry is even more dependent on imports than food retailers. Those cheap T-shirts from Primark, or that party outfit from New Look, will probably come from South East Asia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Turkey. They are usually priced in US dollars. Marks and Spencer says virtually all of its clothing and homeware comes from outside the EU. For that reason it has hedged its currency exchange up to 18 months in advance, meaning it could be Christmas 2017 before it comes under pressure to raise prices. Steve Rowe, the chief executive, has even promised to lower prices on clothing and homeware, as part of the company’s recovery plan. But Kate Ormrod, who analyses clothing and footwear for Verdict, believes some shops will have toincrease prices as soon as next summer. “Few clothing players will be able to fully absorb increased costs, or risk weakening margins, resulting in price hikes for consumers,” she says. ‘Canny decision’Lord Wolfson, the boss of Next, has said the company is 60% hedged against dollars and euros, up to the spring and summer collections of 2017. That raises the possibility of price rises in less than a year. The company also points out that when the price of cotton rocketed in 2011, most fashion stores passed the increases straight on to customers. That is a heavy hint that they will do likewise this time round. However, not all retailers are exposed in the same way. The online company ASOS pays for 80% of its clothing in pounds, suggesting it may be able to maintain its UK prices. Right now that looks like a canny decision. Homeware, DIY, electricalsThe US computer maker Dell has already raised prices by 10% to its UK retailers this month, and the Chinese smartphone company OnePlus has put some prices up by 6.5%. John Lewis, which imports two-thirds of what it sells, says it too will be under pressure to raise prices. It has hedged its currency transactions until the end of next year, but after that may find it hard to hold prices down. “The pound is a big issue for us next year. It will have an effect,” says Andy Street, the store’s managing director. “If inflation gets into the value chain and into prices, it will feed through.” Look at all those Bosch, Miele, and Samsung washing machines in John Lewis’s kitchen department, and you see what he means. Only in September, when Ebac washing machines go on sale, will you be able to buy one that’s made in the UK. Verdict analyst Matthew Rubin believes the prices of such items will rise next year. “Furniture, floor coverings and large electricals have the most to fear,” he says. MotoringSince oil is priced in dollars, it is likely that fuel prices will rise as currency hedges unwind. Assuming oil prices themselves do not fall, that is. However the cost of oil only makes up around a third of the cost of a litre of petrol, so the currency effect will be small. Meanwhile 70% of the cars we buy are imported, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). But the structure of pricing is complex. Manufacturers have greater flexibility over their margins than shops on the High Street, and they usually set prices according to competition in the local market. In theory, buying a British-made car might be cheaper, but most of these use foreign suppliers, increasing the cost of production even in the UK. In fact nearly 60% of components used to make cars in the UK are bought from abroad. At the least, car prices are unlikely to fall. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/25/how-food-clothing-and-homeware-bills-are-likely-to-rise-bbc-news/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/how-food-clothing-and-homeware-bills-are-likely-to-rise-bbc-news/ I haveanxiety, baby. Crippling, not-cute, debilitatingANXIETY. I might as well wear a T-shirt that says, Talk ~anxiety~ to me because I indulge in that anxious talk much more than I indulge in that dirty talk. Sometimes, when Im drinking by myself at the bar, Ill gaze at those laid back girlswith their bohemian beach wavescasually cascading down their sun-kissed backs, meeting their boyfriends family for the first time and Im sick with jealousy. I just want to be a non-anxious girl who doesnt wear makeup,authentically enjoys yoga, rolls out of bed and throws on a braless, side-boob dress and puts the frenetic energy of a New York City subway gorgeously at ease with my magnetic, carefree swagger. But, no. Im actually an acutely raven-haired, snow-white, pale-skinned, hyperactive mascara lesbian, all big anxious eyes, caffeine-shaky lips and nerves. My leg is inexplicably shaking as a write this. Is something ANXIOUS about to happen? Nah, girl. Its a boring Tuesday in lower Manhattan. Im just feeling things because I dont know how to not feel things. But I adore love. People who suffer from anxiety and depression tend to fiercelylove because were glutenous in the feels department, like out of control chocolate addicts who just cant help but devour a box of Godiva in one sitting. We recklessly dive into the emotional pools, whether its the anxiety pool, the depressed pool or the love pool. Two anxious/depressed entities swimming in the love pool is a powerful force of nature (not necessarily a healthy force of nature,but theyre still a forceto be reckoned with). Social anxiety is the worst when youre dating someone new. Because, all of a sudden, youre forced to ~socialize~ with their people. Its probably really good for us to crawl out from under the covers and mingle with fresh personalities, but damn, is it harrowing. But ya know, kittens, if we want love so bad, were going to have figure out a way to deal with our social anxiety. So today, together, like two long lost, anxious sisters, were going to navigate the dark and stormy waters of dating with social anxiety. Last week, we talked about dealing with meeting your significant others friends with social anxiety. And this week, were going to talk about the collectively feared meeting of the family. Iknow this one is tough. Because the thing is, when you love someone something fierce, you want to be close their family. You want to be loved, accepted and celebrated by them. But how the hell do you get there when youre feeling irrepressibly shy? Now that Im a smug 30-year-old, I can tell you Ive learned a thing or two in my time here on this cruel, cold planet earth. At this point, Ive become such a ferocious expert in charming a significant others family, I can do it with the grace and ease of a ballerina. So, if the leg-shaking, former over-drinker due to her extreme shyness, bug-eyed, noticeably quiet girl has learned to deal with meeting the SOs fam, so can you. Here is my basic beginners guideline. Message me, if you have more questions, for I am your anxious lesbian big sister. And I amalways here for you. 1. Be more polite than the Queen of England.Its OKto be a little shy. But the trouble with being shy is this: Shy can sometimes be misinterpreted as bitchy. Iknow thats not the case, and you know thats not the case. But does baes family know thats not the case? Unless they have a mastersin psychology, no. They dont. So you need to be over-the-top polite. Make sure you look everyone you meet in the eye, smile and firmly shake their hands. Say sweet, polite, sugary things like, So LOVELY to meet you! People can handle quiet, as long as youre a polite quiet.Channel your inner Kate Middleton, and act like a god damn royal. It will distract everyone from your palpable anxiety. And if they do notice your trembling hands, theyll know its because youre nervous fromtrying to impressthem. And theyll be inclined to love back anyone who loves their gorgeous, perfect child. 2. Take the piece of cake, no matter what allergies you have.I dont care if youre on the Atkins Diet. I dont give a shit about your gluten allergy. I dont care if youre going to go into paralytic shock from all of the sugar youre eating. If youre offered a piece of cake, take it. If youre worried youre going to shut down or come across as rude, the best way to put a buffer between your lack of conversation participation is to take the fucking cake when its offered, eat it and gush about how ~amazing~ it is. You have ONE chance to make a good impression, you hear me? Dont blow it by being a bitch about the food. Eat the cake today, and save thediet for every other boring day of your life. Whats a night of irritable bowels over family acceptance for life? 3. Ask them questions about their lives.OK,so you dont know what the hell to say. Youre tongue-tied, your mouth is dry, your fingers are shaking, you really want a cigarette (even if you dont smoke) and you just want to crawl into a hole and hide. Take a deep breath right now. Channel your inner California babe. Ill visualize myself as some sort of calm, hippie, wild-haired Cali girl with golden sand sprinkled across my bare feet and Ill breathe like a real yogi. It helps. After youve done your visualization and have calmed down a bit, ask their family questions about themselves. Ask them where theyre from, what they do for work, what theyre passionate about and how they made that cake so mouthwatering. Trust me, everyone loves to talk about themselves. Were all vain, and were all a bit self-obsessed. Let the human condition work to your advantage. 4. Offer to help clean up.If youre shy, your in with the fam is being of service. Dont bitch about this one, girls. No one is more useless than yours truly. I dont even know how to load a dishwasher correctly. I dont know how to roast a chicken. I dont know how to iron my linen dresses. But you know what? When I meet baes family, I channel my inner domestic goddess and I help clean up like Im a god damn professional. It gets you out of conversation, but still makes you seem amazing, engaged and helpful. So, stop worrying about your broken nail, and get down and dirty with those dishes, babe! Chipped nail polish today, manis and xanis tomorrow. 5. Have a glass of wine, for Christs sake.Now is not the time to be a prim bitch. Have a glass of wine (just one, two max) and let your hair down a bit. It will socially lubricate you so youre not a stiff Stepford wife from Greenwich, Connecticut when you arrive on the family frontier for the first time. Dont have more than two, or else that booze will quickly turn on you. An anxiety-ridden drunk is weird. Its uncomfortable. But an anxiety-ridden buzz is totally fine! Have a personality drink, follow steps one through four and youll be good to go, I swear to goddess. Well deal with using drinking as a crutch later this week. But today, youve just got to get through meeting THE FAM. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/24/how-to-deal-with-meeting-baes-family-when-you-have-horrible-anxiety/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/how-to-deal-with-meeting-baes-family-when-you-have-horrible-anxiety/ There are several commonalities between the far left and the far right including a disdain for liberals but the biggest divide is on the topic of intolerance The cookout offered free food, a face-painting booth and a protest sign-making station a pile of cut-up cardboard boxes, paint markers and rolls of packing tape. A group of neighborhood boys, each no older than 12, gathered around. They wanted signs to tape to their bicycles, so they could ride around and tell Trump what they thought of him. One grabbed a piece of cardboard and wrote in big letters: TRUMPS A BITCH. Max Neely quickly stepped in. Im not sure you should use that word, he said, his voice taking on a fatherly tone. At 6ft2in, he towered over them. That word isnt very respectful to women, and there are a lot of women around here today that we should be respecting. Maybe you can think of another word to use. The boys conferred. Eventually, they settled on a different, less offensive protest sign at least in Neelys eyes. FUCK TRUMP, it read, followed by four exclamation points. A 31-year-old activist with long hair and a full bushy beard, Neely had a full day of political activism ahead of him: Donald Trump was in Harrisburg to mark his 100th day in office with a speech at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. In other parts of the city, the liberal opposition were also readying themselves: organizations such as Keystone Progress, Dauphin County Democrats and the local Indivisible group planned to march in protest. Neelys group were not among them. Instead, they had set up a picnic site in a small park, offering a barbecue and leftist pamphlets. Someone had planted a bright red hammer-and-sickle flag in the grass. On a nearby table hung a black banner that bore the words Redneck Revolt: anti-racist, pro-gun, pro-labor. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/redneck-revolt-the-armed-leftwing-group-that-wants-to-stamp-out-fascism/ 1. Something relatively simple happens, like finding $20, or getting the best parking spot in the lot, or a 25 cent raise, and you cant wait to share itbut you get a lump in your throat because you just cant anymore. 2. You notice things more fully. Things you looked right past, like a birds nest in the tree out front, or the children throwing snowballs across the street. 3. You wake up earlier and have more of your days to experience. Or the reverse, and you sleep in later, indulging in some selfish, rejuvenating sleep. 4. You become dependent on your phone. It is now your lifeline to the rest of the world and your outlet for social media. And you begin to analyze pictures and Snapstories and Tweets at the deepest level, reading for some underlying, hidden meaning. Wondering if those song lyrics, that smiley face are about you. 5. You are suddenly blessed with free time, and you begin to fill it with purposeful, intentional activities that make you happy. 6. You feel vulnerable in ways only losing love can make you feelit becomes essential to put on a good face because the whole world seems to be watching you, but all the while you wonder what that persons doing, and if theyre wondering about you. 7. You want to share the excitement over that amazing thing youve been wishing for which has finally become a realitybut its bittersweet. You cant share the news with the person who was there through the struggle. So you bite your tongue. 8. You are brought to tears at the tiniest of thingsopening your door to an empty bed, seeing the fridge without his beer or her yogurt, or only one towel in the bathroom. 9. You smile with intention. Purpose. Until that smile begins to form naturally again. 10. You feel this sense of fear. Not at a deep level, but in a way that is much different than how you felt before and who you were before. You are now more hesitant to talk to the opposite sex and careful with your words. 11. You start doing the little things youve always wanted to do, but never could find the time for. 12. You see the value in family and friends, these dependable, truly incredible people youve been blessed with. And you begin to spend more time with them. 13. You have a little hole in your heart from coming across something hilarious or sentimental and wanting so badly to send it to your exs sibling, or mother, or uncle, who you know will appreciate it. But you just cant. 14. You learn to fill the empty spaces, so you bury yourself in things like work and outings with friends and to-do lists. 15. You find confidence in the smallest things, like your outfit, or how you styled your hair, or the person at the grocery store who smiled at you. 16. You begin to accept that cooking will now feel tedious, and will remind you of how your ex would always cook with you, or how you would always have the perfect portions for two people. But you begin to accept this difference. 17. You try new foods, new recipes, new restaurants, and delight in the simple pleasure of doing something that you didnt do before. 18. You learn how to make yourself a little less lonelya fortress of pillows so it feels like youre not sleeping alone, notes on your mirror to give you confidence, new pictures in the frames on your walls. 19. You fend for yourself, finding ways to organize your schedule or plan out your days in the way that you want. 20. You listen, really listen. To song lyrics, to the wind rushing past your car windows as you drive, to the silence of the morning. And you hear things you didnt before, sounds that remind you to breathe. Sounds of hope. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/20-unexpected-ways-your-daily-life-changes-when-youre-suddenly-single-again/ There’s no better feeling than cruising around in your car and having your favorite song suddenly come on the radio. But you can’t force it. It has to happen naturally. You can’t, for instance, go down to the local radio station with an axe and demand that they play “My Axe” byInsane Clown Posse. Yetthat’s exactly what 38-year-old Richard Newton did on Monday afternoon. Police were called to the offices of the Kiss 108 radio station in Medford, Massachusetts at around 1:30 pm after Newton, brandishing an axe, approacheda secretary and requested the song. He then returned to his car, perhaps expecting to hear the tune. Instead, he was surrounded by police. Police tried tasing Newton, and even shooting him with a beanbag, but to no avail. A witness told CBS Bostonthat the police negotiator even offered to get the ICPsong played on the radio station in question which, it should be noted, is a top 40 pop station. Newton threw the axe, along with several large knives, out of his vehicle, but still refused to surrender, at one point saying, “I guess you’re just going to have to kill me.” Eventually, after over three hours of tense negotiations, Newton finally gave himself up. “It was a peaceful resolution for everyone involved, ” said Lt. Joseph Casey of the Medford Police Department. “Nobody got seriously injured, and we’re grateful for that” Newton, who witnesses say was drinking beer and huffing something from a bag, has yet to be charged with a crime and will undergo a psychological evaluation. H/T UPROXX from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/axe-wielding-man-demands-radio-station-play-my-axe-by-insane-clown-posse/ Bad news, dudes. Odds are, seemingly harmless, everyday activities are actually weakening your ability to procreate. Several studies found you can lower your sperm count simply by being a creature of habit, and these habits tend to be pretty enjoyable. Here are five things you’re probably doing on a regular basis that may be killing your sperm in the process. 1. Watching too much TVResearch conducted at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found men who watchedmore than 20 hours of TV a week had 44 percent less sperm than those men who watched lessTV in the same time frame. The sperm samples came from 189 men, ages 18 to 22, who recorded how much time they spent in front of the TV in a given week. It appears the decrease in sperm comes from the excessive sitting, since the participants who exercised regularly had 73 percent more sperm than those who got the least exercise. So you might want to get up every now and then. 2. DrinkingShocker: Drinking a lot of alcohol isn’t very good for you. According to researchers, you only need to drink five units (less than three pints of beer) a week to reduce the quality of your sperm. Astudy published in the journal BMJ Openinvolving 1,200 Danish military recruits, ages 18 to 28, found the amount of alcohol consumed was directly correlated to sperm count. The averageamount of units participants drank in a week was 11. Researchers found the more alcohol consumed in aweek, the greater thedecrease in levels of reproductive hormones and sperm count the following week. Those who drank significantly more than 11 unitscrippled their sperm counts, with a 33 percent decrease observed in those who drank 40 units a week compared to those who drank less thanfive units per week. 3. Wearing boxer briefsOver the course of a year, 12 men were instructed to wear boxers for a certain period and then boxer briefs for the same amount of time for a study on the effects of underwear on sperm counts. The sperm counts from each time period revealed wearing boxer briefs cutthe participants’ sperm counts in halfwhen compared to periods of wearing boxers. Wearing boxer briefs also decreased sperm quality by about two-thirds. Guess this means everyone should stick to boxers? 4. Being a vegetarianMen who do not eat meat apparently have a lot less sperm than their carnivorous counterparts. In a four-year study, researchers at California’s Loma Linda University School of Medicine discovered 26 vegetarians and five vegans hadan average of 50 million sperm per milliliter compared to the average of 70 million per milliliter for 443 meat eaters. Just one-third of the meatlessgroup’s sperm wereconsidered active, while meat eaters had nearly 60 percent active sperm. Researchers believed the difference may be attributed to vitamin deficiencies and an abundance of soy, which may negativelyaffectsperm. Moral of the story? Eat meat. 5. Smoking weedIf you usually smoke weed just two times a week, your sperm count may be 29 percent lower than those who don’t smoke as often, according to a study from the University of Copenhagen. Sperm samples from 1,215 Danish men, ages 18 to 28, also revealed a 55 percent sperm deficit in those who regularly did drugs such as ecstasy and cocaine in addition to marijuana. It isn’t clear how exactly marijuana affects sperm, but researchers mentioned the possibility of THC, the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana, interfering with receptors in the testes. The study’s researchers could not, however, establisha causalrelationship between marijuana and sperm count, since regular marijuana users tended to have an increased intake of cigarettes, alcohol and caffeine, and acombination of those three factors couldpossiblyhave a bigger impact on sperm count than marijuana alone. Subscribe to Elite Dailys official newsletter,The Edge, for more stories you don’t want to miss. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/23/5-things-you-do-every-day-that-are-lowering-your-sperm-count/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/5-things-you-do-every-day-that-are-lowering-your-sperm-count/ |
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