Tuesday, August 19, 2014

“Guys, Your Smartphone Is Hurting Your Sperm” - Summary _ Natalia Carolina Camargos Ferreira


Summary
“It may be time to take the cellphone out of your pants pocket, gents”. This is the advice given by Alice Park, author of the article “Guys, Your Smartphone Is Hurting YourSperm”. As explained by Park, cellphone can cause harmful effects for the body, especially for the cell functions, because they emit low-level electromagnetic radiation (EMR).  According to the article a new research, analyzing previous studies, shows that sperm   samples exposure-to-cell-phone EMR lowered the mobility by 8% and mobility by 9% . This result can be explained by the fact that the man carry their cellphones in their pant pockets and this exposure to the EMR can  bring about an increase of temperature (up to 2.3 Celsius degrees) of the skin. This change in the temperature can significantly interfere with the hormone production. The author also mentions that how much the cellphone is harmful isn't totally clear yet. Thus, the best thing to do was to try to keep the cellphones away for the maximum time that you could in spite of this is a difficult thing to do in practice.
Comments

Cellphone are essential nowadays. It’s difficult to imagine our life without them nowadays since the time we wake until the time we go to bed, they are beside us. The cellphone allows that we can talk to everyone in any place of the world. They also allow us to have access to our email and research sources all the time we need. Without doubts, the cellphone is a very useful invention. However, some studies suggest that use of the cellphone can have causing bad effects in our body’s health. The main reason is because the cellphone works because of the electromagnetic radiation, and this one point that already is not so clear. Thus the best thing to do is to use the cellphone moderately. This way we avoid  the harmful effects of the cellphones.

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