Here's How Cellphones Can Affect A Male's Fertility

Men who keep their phone in their trouser pocket risk reducing their sperm quality, a study suggests.

Talking on your phone while it's charging, or keeping it as far as two-feet from you as you sleep can also make reduce your sperm count.

Martha Dirnfeld, who conducted the study at Technion University in Haifa, Israel, said: "We analysed the amount of active swimming sperm and the quality and found that it had been reduced.

"We think this is being caused by a heating of the sperm from the phone and by electromagnetic activity." 

The research found that 47% of the men who carried their phones within 20 inches of their business had sperm that'd been hugely affected.

"If you wear a suit to work put the mobile in your chest pocket instead of close to your testes. It will reduce the risk of your sperm count dropping or dropping so much."

The study analysed the sperm of 106 men over the course of a year. The findings were originally published in the medical journal Reproductive BioMedicine.