Andrew Huberman· PhD
Cannabis & Detriments to Egg & Sperm Health
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
Cannabis & Detriments to Egg & Sperm Health
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cannabis use is not good for egg quality and the fact that cannabis use can disrupt the motility of sperm and therefore is not good for sperm quality and it can disrupt the patterns of swimming in sperm in ways that reduce the likelihood of fertility
But if you're going to use cannabis, you should try and abstain from cannabis in the two months prior to the attempt to fertilize and get pregnant.
It turns out that the data on cannabis really do support the idea that some of you may have heard from parents and teachers-- I don't know, I did hear this from parents and teachers-- that cannabis can disrupt the swimming styles of sperm in ways that are not supportive of fertilization, that it can turn more of the sperm into twitchers.
you know things like cannabis right decreases sperm production decreases sperm motility changes sperm morphology the shape of it changes the DNA increases the fragmentation of the DNA