Peer-reviewed research on sperm concentration, motility, DNA fragmentation, and the factors that influence male fertility, including the temperature mechanism Oakman is built around.
This review looked at whether the underwear a man wears, tight versus loose, actually affects his fertility. The testicles work best a little cooler than the rest of the body,…
This review looked at how psychological stress might affect male fertility through oxidative stress. It synthesized animal studies and human observational data to explore the link between stress, oxidative damage,…
This review examined how oxidative stress, sperm DNA damage, and epigenetic changes interact to affect male fertility. It pulled together studies on men with infertility, looking at how these factors…
This narrative review set out to explore how lifestyle choices affect male fertility, examining diet, exercise, stress, sleep, weight, and environmental exposures. It synthesized existing research on how these factors…
This review set out to examine whether mobile phones and laptops, as sources of electromagnetic radiation and heat, might harm male fertility by affecting semen quality. It analyzed existing studies,…
This review gathers recent evidence on what damages male fertility and how much of it can be undone. Smoking raises sperm DNA fragmentation (breaks in the genetic material inside sperm)…
This narrative review argues that a man's fertility is a readable signal of his health generally, not just of his ability to father a child. The reasoning runs like this:…
This review pulled together what is known about how everyday life affects a man's fertility, covering age, psychological stress, nutrition, physical activity, caffeine, scrotal temperature, hot water and mobile phone…
This is a history of forty years of French research into male contraception (hormonal, chemical and thermal) summarising clinical trials involving thousands of men and couples. Those trials established that…