{"id":25251,"date":"2025-04-03T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25251"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:25:33","slug":"your-weed-habit-may-be-messing-with-your-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25251","title":{"rendered":"Your Weed Habit May Be Messing With Your Sperm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A growing body of evidence now shows that cannabis is destructive to male fertility.<\/p>\n

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About a decade ago, patients started coming to Dr. Alexander Pastuszak with a question that has only become more common since then: Would smoking weed make it more difficult for them to have children?<\/p>\n

Dr. Pastuszak, an expert in male fertility but not a cannabis user, knew that laws and norms around marijuana were being relaxed across the country, and that many men were comfortable discussing their drug use with their physicians. He just didn\u2019t have anything concrete to tell them.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil recently, the answer was, \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019 \u201d said Dr. Pastuszak, who is now a urologist at the University of Utah.<\/p>\n

So he started looking for an answer. Cannabis is legal for either medicinal or recreational purposes in all but 11 states and was used at least once by 52.5 million Americans in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. Yet because it remains illegal under federal law, it\u2019s hard to study, and its long term health effects are still poorly understood, said Dr. Omer Raheem, a urologist at the Cleveland Clinic who practices in the United States and Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even so, when it comes to the male reproductive system, some effects of cannabis are becoming clear. By looking at 48 studies from around the world, Dr. Pastuszak found in 2019<\/a> that cannabis products do<\/em> harm a man\u2019s chances of conceiving children. Finally, he feels, he has an answer for his patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHC, certainly in smoked form, can impact semen,\u201d Dr. Pastuszak said, and therefore damage male fertility.<\/p>\n

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A growing body of evidence now shows that cannabis is destructive to male fertility.About a decade ago, patients started coming to Dr. Alexander Pastuszak with a question that has only become more common since then: Would smoking weed make it more difficult for them to have children?Dr. Pastuszak, an expert in male fertility but not a cannabis user, knew that laws and norms around marijuana were being relaxed across the country, and that many men were comfortable discussing their drug use with their physicians. He just didn\u2019t have anything concrete to tell them.\u201cUntil recently, the answer was, \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019 \u201d said Dr. Pastuszak, who is now a urologist at the University of Utah.So he started looking for an answer. Cannabis is legal for either medicinal or recreational purposes in all but 11 states and was used at least once by 52.5 million Americans in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet because it remains illegal under federal law, it\u2019s hard to study, and its long term health effects are still poorly understood, said Dr. Omer Raheem, a urologist at the Cleveland Clinic who practices in the United States and Abu Dhabi.Even so, when it comes to the male reproductive system, some effects of cannabis are becoming clear. By looking at 48 studies from around the world, Dr. Pastuszak found in 2019 that cannabis products do harm a man\u2019s chances of conceiving children. Finally, he feels, he has an answer for his patients.\u201cTHC, certainly in smoked form, can impact semen,\u201d Dr. Pastuszak said, and therefore damage male fertility.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25253,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25254,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251\/revisions\/25254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}