Obesity may decrease Male Fertility

If you are fat bodied men, should begin to watch. In addition to risk of various serious diseases, like heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, a study indicates, the opportunity to have a fat guy offspring would be threatened.

As reported a study published the journal Fertility and Sterility, the chance of a fat man has a relatively low child even if he is able-bodied. Study of research scientists from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine at the Hershey show, among 87 healthy men aged 19-48 years, those in obese (overweight) tend not to have kids.

One important thing is underlined by these findings, male fat body also showed hormonal differences that show decreased reproductive capacity and capability. The results showed, compared with peers who have better posture lean, obese men have lower testosterone levels in his blood.

In addition, they also recorded a luteinizing hormone levels of the hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) are low, but both types are very important for male reproductive health.

According to experts, the lack of LH and FSH levels are relatively hypogonadotropik indicating partial hypogonadism. This is a condition in which the testes do not function properly due to interference and signal the pituitary gland hypothalamus, two important parts of the brain that regulate hormone secretion.

Dr Eric M Pauli and her team from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine said, its findings indicate that obesity is one of the independent factors that affect male fertility.

In his research, Pauli involving 87 men and 68 percent of whom already have a child. Pauli and her team found, the average body mass index (BMI) recorded lower among this group compared with those who have not had children.

When researchers examined several types of reproductive hormones, they found that men who have obesity category of LH and FSH levels lower. On the other hand, increasing obesity is also associated with increased levels of hormones Estrogens. The influence of body fat, Pauli said, it can increase the conversion of testosterone to estrogen in the blood of men. Such hormonal changes can cause signals in the brain to suppress the production of FSH and LH hormones.