Dr. Brent Hanson

Oh my gosh.

Many thousands.

I don't have an exact number for you, but we're talking in the thousands.

When I, you know, as I'm still focusing the microscope, if I'm just seeing like, I almost view it as fish.

Like you're thinking of like a pond with like fish in it.

And you're like, there's nothing but fish here.

It's full of fish.

You can hardly see the water.

If all I'm seeing is like a swarm.

That makes me happy.

Yeah.

Right.

And he thought... Shouldn't we have a better understanding of this?

Because it's so simple, you know?

You should be able to look at...

six hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, and three weeks, and get a really good estimation of like, what is the optimal time?

And it seemed kind of baffling to me that no one had really looked into that in quite some time.

There are a lot.

So concentration is one, the number of sperm per milliliter, the volume.

There are some that you just look at and it's like, yeah, double head, we're out.

That's not normal.

Double tail, same thing.

It's like if there's two of anything, we're done.

That's not a normal one.

Yeah, and so the take-homes from this were really that the longer you go without ejaculating, the larger that sample will be.

Yeah, so what we found is that the longer the abstinence period, the more these kind of DNA errors, so to speak,

I think if you're going beyond five days, certainly beyond 10 days, you're not doing yourself any favors.

You will just be increasing the number of probably non-viable, non-modal, abnormally shaped sperm with high rates of DNA fragmentation because those will continue to accumulate and they don't get flushed.

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