Paul Turek
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first heard Jun 2025
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And so the issue really is it got started that biking was bad for reproductive health. with a Spanish competitive cycling study. Competitive Spanish cyclists, Tour de France caliber cyclists, their sperm counts were examined.
Not a good group to study. Yeah. So their sperm counts were low, their morphologies were off, and they're extreme athletes. So we know that, and we know maybe they were on drugs, maybe they were, you know, it's a big industry. They're super fit. They're certainly exercising two hours a day. And so they said, look at these guys who are really healthy and look at their sperm counts.
But this other data didn't come out. So I did a blog called Cycling into Childlessness. And I looked at a more comparable study, which was British commuting cyclists, everyday people bicycling to work in Britain. on different saddles. And I looked at their fertility and their fertility was far better than the average Brit.
Yeah, I don't remember what they controlled for, but I think they did a lot of the socioeconomics. It may just have been activity, but the bicycle- So is this a myth? Yes. Now, if you said, am I worried about biscus? Yes. So I worry about sexual health. I worry about the pudendal nerve and I worry about seat anatomy. So the best seat for a biscus. So if you're biking a lot, that's good.
If you're biking and you're getting pelvic numbness, that's bad. Okay. So you need to get a better seat. The best seat was studied by the NACH, the NA, I forgot, it was Dr. Schrader at the NIH. The best seat is the saddles that are shaped like this are bad for your sit bones because they come into the middle where the arteries and nerves are to the penis. So it's an erection issue.
Those aren't good saddles. The saddles with the two little tongs that hold your iliac crest bones with no nose. Perfect. So it's pressure where the pressure is outside facing, leaning in. So we gave those to police in Washington, the bicycling police down in National Cathedral area in the parks. And they all gave the seats back a week later, said, you're not doing this. He said, what's going on?
He said, we don't know where the seat is. We go sit down and it lands somewhere. You have to have the nose for bicyclists because they use it to guide when they sit down. They use it to guide where they sit. So The best saddle is flat or gel in the back, cut out in the middle and some kind of lean in like this. So cut out saddles and then you should get your bones fit. You can do this online.
You can ask them to send you a pressure pad and you sit on it and then you send it back and they measure the distance. And there's only a couple of different saddles, maybe 12 widths that you could do and you get it done. Or like me, you use a saddle used for 30 years and it's perfect, but it weighs four pounds.
So fertility-wise, I'd say the government wants men. I'm going to talk about men to less than two glasses of alcohol a day is okay. They consider four binging. Now, alcohol is a small molecule, goes right into the brain, goes right into the testicle. It's definitely a poison. It goes everywhere. The testicle doesn't limit it. So I worry about it a lot.
The effects I see are direct when it's abused. So I would say you see morphology, motility, and count issues. So that's a direct effect as a direct toxin. It's one of the few things that's into the testicle. Second would be a hormonal effect. So alcohol use tends to cause the liver to rev up, tends to cause more estrogenization. So you tend to get low testosterone from that.
So it's a hormonal effect and a direct effect.
That's the worst player for me. So THC, same thing, count motility, morphology, and it probably has an effect. We know it has an effect on fragmentation, which is a quality measure of sperm, not only the way it looks descriptively, but quality, and also probably an epigenetic effect. Some of the early studies on sperm epigenetics showed alterations with nicotine and with pot.
What I don't like about pot is you ingest it and however you ingest it, you get a peak, you feel it, it goes away, you feel it's out of your system like nicotine, but it sits in your fat for a month or three weeks and it's a depot effect and it keeps coming back. So you get a low level toxicity, which I don't like at all. So I am not a fan of pot.
The other thing that really concerns me about pot and reproductive age men is I wrote a couple of blogs on this called The Weed Worries. And there's some compelling evidence from epidemiology and two studies 10 years apart validating each other that chronic pot use is associated with testis cancer.
I mean, it's an interesting phenomenon. It's medical marijuana, right? So medical means safe. But I asked someone, I have a lot of pot growers in the Emerald City up in Northern California, and they have the artisanal stuff that wins awards and stuff. And it's like, which is worse for driving, being stoned or being drunk? undoubtedly being drunk. Yeah.
So it looks like reflexes, but you know, like he said to me, well, we tend to stop at stoplights and wait for them to turn when we're stoned.
And I think the signs, the LA story signs, and they have the lit up signs about open season traffic and the movie LA story. They do say now drunk or stoned, watch out. We're going to get you.
I don't think it's the root. So I don't think it's toking or edibles, but it might just be the chronic exposure. And I don't see, there's some evidence that THC acts like LH and binds the receptor and blocks it. But blocks it from LH.
It's nicotine. Nicotine per se. Is the issue. And it doesn't last as long as THC. It does have count motility effects and fertility effects. We think probably both of these are oxidants.
Probably all of them. I don't think we know exactly, but I'd say that I diagnosed diabetes in a lot of infertile men. I make the diagnosis.
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