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Enough evidence is mounting to substantiate a direct link between heat and sperm quality and quantity. Exposure to excessive heat invariably leads to an elevated testicular temperature. As a result, sperm often becomes deformed (tapered), lacks the ability to propel itself, and/or is missing the acrosome, a granule at the tip of the sperm that releases a substance on contact with an egg to facilitate entry into it. Sperm quality deteriorates substantially during the summer months.
Women can’t entirely blame men for low conception rates during hot weather conditions.
Fertility-
Where fertility and conception is an issue, men should prevent exposure to heat and
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