Laptop in the lap bad for health?

[Liberty Star]

For male or feamle health?

Came across this old report, little concerned because newer multimedia laptops generate a lot of heat:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4078895.stm


Is this credible?

 

[orafi]

sperm cells don't like heat.

 

[Kludge]

For male or feamle health?

How many females do you know with a scrotum....?

 

[orafi]

How many females do you know with a scrotum....?

you don't need a scrotum to boil eggs, now.

 

[Liberty Star]

How many females do you know with a scrotum....?

Orafi, answered that well, now don't blame me for asking an 'ignorant' question lol

Media reverses its reports on health effects of almost everything every few years, trying to get a realistic perspective from the folks.


I use a breakfast tray when using laptop in bed, I'm hoping that's relatively safer from radiation POV.

 

[MalcolmGandi]

Laptops emit microwaves, which are not good for your balls. The rate of testicular cancer has gone up something like 55% since cellphones came into popularity, and they operate with the same frequencies.

 

[dannno]

Laptops emit microwaves, which are not good for your balls. The rate of testicular cancer has gone up something like 55% since cellphones came into popularity, and they operate with the same frequencies.

....i'm gonna go have a couple more apricot seeds..

 

[Nirvikalpa]

The ideal temperature for spermatogenesis (the creation of sperm) is 94-95 degrees - which is around 3.5 degrees cooler than that of your body temperature. At temperatures above 96 degrees sperm production slows, because heat affects the construction of DNA.

It takes 72 days for a sperm to mature (spermatagonia -> spermatocyte -> spermatid -> spermatozoa). Exposure to above-normal heat levels mostly affects spermatocytes and spermatid, which actually sometimes program themselves to die (via chemicals) after exposure.

If you're going to be worried about testicular health, I would worry about the estrogen-mimetic compounds you ingest through liquids and food stored in plastic every day over laptop heat, though. You're exposed to heat through baths and showers, and working in the sun. The body has it's own defenses, but not so much to chemicals you are not supposed to be ingesting.