Is the degree of environmental pollution related to the number of sperm? How the ozone layer causes oligospermia

According to foreign media reports, the scientific research team led by American scientist Rabes Sokol has analyzed the sperm samples of Los Angeles sperm bank in detail, and concluded that smoke pollution will not only have a negative impact on human lung function, but also damage the sperm quality of men.

Oligospermia is a common cause of male infertility. Modern medicine believes that the physical and chemical factors, immune factors, and direct or indirect effects of various pathological changes that cause testicular spermatogenesis dysfunction can reduce the number of sperm.

After analyzing the semen samples of 48 men, scientists from the University of Southern California in the United States found that the quality of male semen from different polluted areas was also different.

The research results of scientists show that the ozone contained in polluted air has the most obvious impact on semen quality: the increase of ozone concentration in the air directly leads to the reduction of male semen production.

At the same time, scientists also pointed out that from their research results, the carbon monoxide gas contained in the air does not affect the quality of male sperm as previously thought.

Leibers Sokol, who led the study, stressed that there was no direct relationship between testicles and ozone. The reason why ozone affected semen quality was the formation of toxins and inflammatory reaction in human blood under the action of ozone.

In addition, according to the latest statistics of scientists, one in every 10 couples is infertile. Among them, men have 30% to 60% of the causes of infertility.