BEING overweight reduces men’s fertility, says William Roudebush of Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta, Georgia.
The more sperm with fragmented DNA a man has, the lower the chances of conception and the higher the chances of miscarriage. Roudebush’s team looked for a link between fragmented DNA in sperm and obesity, as measured by body mass index. “As BMI goes up, the DNA fragmentation rate goes up, and we could see a dramatic reduction of sperm quality,” Roudebush told a meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in San Antonio, Texas, last week.
He speculates that obesity is partly to…
