DROWSY SPERMS

Boule after 600 million years is increasingly producing “lazy drowsy sperms”, which just aren’t interested to swim to the nearest egg to fertilise.
It’s not Boule the sperm-producing gene that is losing vigour and entirely responsible for the “drowsy uninterested” sperms, it’s the men themselves who have to shoulder the blame.
Scientists have recently discovered that Boule a gene is responsible for sperm production, which the gene is diligently doing for the past 600 million years, since evolution of life on earth!
“Men with their high alcohol intake and smoking habit are making the sperms drowsy these days, and infertility is on the rise,” Dr. Sudip Basu, Chief Invitro Fertilisation (IVP) consultant, Amri Hospitals said.
Sperms need Zinc for the development of its head and tail. However, alcohol reduces Zinc intake into the human body. With reduced Zinc the sperms develop deformity and many others are weak to swim to fertilize and have reduced motility.
Normally, a sperm after being attracted swims towards an egg, waving its tail vigorously, hoping to fertilise it.
Dr. Basu says, even if sperm counts is normal, high alcohol and nicotine content in the blood makes the sperm bereft of energy and they don’t like to swim to the nearest egg to fertilise.
Here in the north east, Dr. Basu adds, the incidence of infertility amongst men is especially high. “About 15 to 20 percent of the total male population in the region has infertility problems and the number is increasing everyday with a changed lifestyle.”
He said each year India adds up to one million men who suffer from infertility problem mostly due to an altered lifestyle, although medical complications are also responsible.
“Infection, tuberculosis, hormonal disorder and other medical complications are also responsible for infertility, but more cases of infertility are reported because of alcohol and tobacco abuse,” Dr. Madhav Das senior infertility consultant of Amri added.
Amri today tied up with Woodland hospital here for setting up a satellite centre to treat infertility through Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI) and IVF process.
But the physicians advised that by maintaining a healthy lifestyle the 600-year-old seminal dance to reach eggs should continue naturally.