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A birth control gel for men lowers sperm count sharply


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A gel containing testosterone and Nestorone effectively lowers sperm concentration in men in a preliminary study. (National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health / June 26, 2012)

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By Thomas H. Maugh II
June 26, 2012, 8:40 a.m.
A birth control gel for men sharply lowered sperm counts with few side effects, researchers reported Tuesday. The gel, containing testosterone and a synthetic progestin called Nestorone, will require substantially more testing, but it has the potential to become the first effective chemical birth control agent for males.

The male hormone testosterone can turn off the production of reproductive hormones controlling the production of sperm. Progestin, a synthetic hormone similar to the naturally occurring hormone progesterone, can amplify the effects of testosterone. The two have been used together in the past in pills, implants or shots, but progestin has androgenic effects that can produce side effects such as acne and changes in cholesterol levels. Nestorone is a new synthetic progestin, developed by the Population Council, that apparently does not have those side effects.

A team headed by Dr. Christine Wang of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center enrolled 99 men in a preliminary study of the drug combination. A third of them received a gel containing testosterone and a placebo, which they applied daily for six months. The rest received a gel containing testosterone and one of two concentrations of Nestorone. Fifty-six men completed at least 20 weeks of the study and adhered to the protocol.

Wang reported at a Houston meeting of the Endocrine Society that 88% to 89% of the men receiving the drug combination achieved a sperm concentration of less than 1 million sperm per milliliter, "a level that is compatible with very low pregnancy rates," compared with only 23% of those receiving the placebo. A complete absence of sperm occurred in 78% and 69% of the men receiving the drugs (depending on dose), compared with 23% of those receiving placebo. Side effects were minimal, she said, and the drug combination "warrants further study as a male contraceptive."

The study was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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Nah bro I'm letting my seeds spread.

I would touch that with a one foot pole man.. Nothing beats the good old proven rubber.

AbdiWahab252 wrote:the Population Council

I don't know who they are but they don't sound very zygote friendly, one way trip to infertility.


ps Lol@ the related topics

Awe,

If you are lucky:

Fasting will be the birth control device that my wife and I would employe.

LoDoon wrote:Fasting will be the birth control device that my wife and I would employe.

Only in the summer, but impossible in the winter

7.2 Billion humans and rising it is called humane culling. Alternative is a population explosion that will cause severe food shortages and a sudden population drop globally will be inevitable...

We haven't even learnt to feed our self yet.

LoDoon wrote:Fasting will be the birth control device that my wife and I would employe.

Sex is not haram during ramadan.

Abdiwahab can you read Fatiha? Also, do you consider yourself a secularist?

BlackVelvet wrote:

AbdiWahab252 wrote:the Population Council

ps Lol@ the related topics

Yes, I saw that 5 of them were started by Abdiwahab, he really needs to stop. I fear that his soldiers will all die by experimenting with these sort of stuff.

Cirwaaq wrote:7.2 Billion humans and rising it is called humane culling. Alternative is a population explosion that will cause severe food shortages and a sudden population drop globally will be inevitable...

We haven't even learnt to feed our self yet.

Allah swt provides.

VeiledGarbasar wrote:

BlackVelvet wrote:

AbdiWahab252 wrote:the Population Council

ps Lol@ the related topics

Yes, I saw that 5 of them were started by Abdiwahab, he really needs to stop. I fear that his soldiers will all die by experimenting with these sort of stuff.

Shukansi and birth control a day in the life of AW

AW,

Prince Charming:

Awe wrote:

LoDoon wrote:Fasting will be the birth control device that my wife and I would employe.

Sex is not haram during ramadan.

Abdiwahab can you read Fatiha? Also, do you consider yourself a secularist?

Awe,

Don't be a taraqul salat


Veiled,

I am not a fan of having kids when you are not ready or unsure to have it with a certain person. To often, people assume children will fix relationships which is not true. I'd even go further and state that couples should avoid having children in the first 2 years of marriage and instead focus on getting to know each other and building a reservoir of romance/good will/love to sustain the marriage in those testing times.

Blackvelvet,

The two go hand in hand. Whatever you do, you will never meet a more geniune man than me Oh, he may be wadaadish or a rude boy, but he will lie, manipulate and break your heart into 1000 pieces which no super glue can fix. I won't lie to you. You won't appreciate my truthfulness as you are young and prone to the charms of men who are bedazzled by your good looks. I am that guy whom you will look back on and say dammit shouldn't have let him go.

VeiledG


AW given your track record with women I doubt it gets more charming and are you saying that you would be immune to my good looks?

Cirwaaq wrote:7.2 Billion humans and rising it is called humane culling. Alternative is a population explosion that will cause severe food shortages and a sudden population drop globally will be inevitable...

We haven't even learnt to feed our self yet.

7.2 billion people on earth and occupy less than 1 % of its habitable land and consume less than 0.2%n of it resources (food and energy).
There is plenty more room and resources for more humans on this wonderful planet PEOPLE LET BREED and fck this western propaganda and their stuuupid birth control aka power control over the masses (corporations trying to sell useless things to people to maximize profits).

cirwaaq, there is no food shortages the problems of food that we see these days is caused by the people who control the global economy and not birth rate or population increase. The whole thing is orchestrated by the homosexual lobby