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While some want to kill sperm, some want to buy or sell sperm and others get frustrated when sperm fails at its job. Lets appreciate sperm because without it, we'd be a lonely place.
Dr. Craig Niederberger, professor of urology at the University of Illinois at Chicago shared why sperm needs to get credit.
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1 Abnormal Sperm? That's Normal
Human sperm-making machinery is a bit lazy. How else to explain the fact that 90 percent of the sperm in a man's ejaculate are deformed? Two heads, two tails, huge heads, pinheads, coiled tails - the list of common deformities is a long one.
It's the price of monogamy, Dr. Niederberger says. "For those species where more than one male's sperm can find itself in a female at the same time, the sperm are much more uniform in appearance," he says. "In humans, Joe and Sam's sperm don't usually find themselves in Betty at the same time."
My notes:
With just 10% of sperm non-deformed, it shows that something can go 1 for 10 and still succeed in life. You can't get this in baseball. A .100 hitter won't be in MLB long before he exits. Sperm is competitive as crap. Joe and Sam's sperm does not want to share Betty's egg. Call that selfish, eh?
2 Half a Teaspoon
That's how much a man typically ejaculates. It isn't much, but - for better or worse - it often does the job.
My notes:
For all you women here who likes your man to spoon feed you his sperm, here is some great tasting nutrition for you and even better is that you could take turns swallowing and getting pregnant and you'd get the best of both worlds.
3 Sperm Wear Hard Hats
You might not call sperm dapper, but they do wear hats.
Well, not really a hat but an oval-shaped structure called the acrosome. It contains strong chemicals that are released once the sperm attaches to the egg. The chemicals melt the egg's outer surface, drilling a hole so that the sperm can penetrate the egg to release its genetic cargo.
My notes:
Our sperm is so drill ready that it penetrates hard to try getting inside and attached to the egg. It is relentless and won't give up. It will die trying to impregnate y'all wonderful women.
4 Sperm vs. Semen
Some people use the terms sperm and semen interchangeably. But sperm cells are only one component. Semen also contains substances from the prostate and a pair of rabbit ear-shaped organs inside the pelvis called the seminal vesicles.
Sperm cells - which are made in the testicles - need lots of high-octane fuel to whip their tails. Lucky for them (and us), sperm get the fuel they need in the form of sugar fructose, which is supplied by the seminal vesicles.
Fluid from the prostate contains chemicals that cause semen to liquefy once it's inside the female. Without it, sperm would be locked in place and unable to swim.
My notes:
It's true. Sperm and semen is not the same. Sperm is like dragons and semen is like dogs. Both get fiery and feisty but one blows out the sparks while the other lets out the howl. Imagine sperm being in prison on lock down. No freedom to do as please.
5 One Testicle Is Enough
If a guy loses one testicle, the other is generally able to make enough sperm to create a baby. Often the remaining testicle grows a bit to boost sperm output.
Lance Armstrong, shown here, is perhaps the most high profile person to have lost a testicle to cancer. He has fathered five children since then, three from banked sperm, but two, he says, were conceived naturally.
My notes:
Yes, men. 50% of your sperm can be gone and you can still make lots of babies. babies like 5 and 6 count. No worries if you had to lose a testicle for whatever reason, you can still enjoy fruitful sex. YAY :)
6 200 Million Competitors
It takes only one sperm cell to fertilize a woman's egg - but there's stiff competition for that honor. In fact, the average ejaculate contains 200 million sperm. Best of luck to each of you.
My notes:
Whoa, nelly!!! In one sperm batch, a man could create 3% of the world's population. He can impregnate every single American woman in the USA and some teenage girls too (although that's illegal, depending which age). Truly the King of honor in each sperm bath. 199999999 losers and 1 winner. Of course, this is rounded off.
7 The Factory Never Closes
Women are born with all the eggs they'll ever have. It's different for men. Men produce sperm all day, every day - throughout their lives.
As men age, their sperm may become a little sluggish and their DNA a bit more fragmented. But the factory never closes.
Hope springs eternal.
My notes:
While it may be argued that eggs are more valuable than sperm due to lower account of eggs than sperm, that doesn't always imply in the world. Simply be more rarity, doesn't add to being more valuable because the value of sperm is that it abounds plenty.
8 Sperm Are Tiny
Want to see a sperm cell? Better have a microscope, because sperm are far too tiny to see with the naked eye. How tiny? Each one measures about 0.002 inch from head to tail, or about 50 micrometers.
Of course, what sperm lack in size they more than make up in sheer numbers. If a guy could coax all the sperm in one ejaculate to line up end to end, they'd stretch six miles.
That's a lot of sperm.
My notes:
1/500th of an inch can play huge dividends to our population. That sure would be one heck of a 6 mile walk to randomly guess which one will be King of the Batch for the Egg. Each batch of sperm has a maximum of 1 king, excluding twins, etc.
9 Sperm Need Protection
Sperm start out looking pretty much like any cell in the body. But by the time they're ready to leave the testicles, they have half as much DNA as other cells in the body. That makes them look a bit suspicious to the body's immune system.
To keep immune cells from wiping out "invading" sperm, the testicles employ specialized cells to surround them with a sort of "picket fence."
My notes:
Geez, sperm goes through a rough life losing part of themselves in such a short time. They are programmed to penetrate the egg of a woman and impregnate her. That's a good fence there. Don't want attackers on the good side, fence them from the attackers. Yes, some women's bodies attack male sperm because they see male sperm as an invader. However, her body doesn't attack female sperm. So yes, women have incredible bodies too.
10 Dead Sperm Can Make Live Babies
To fertilize an egg the old-fashioned way, sperm need to be able to swim. Not so with in-vitro (test tube) fertilization. In fact, when IVF technicians use tiny, robotically controlled glass straws to insert a single sperm inside an egg, they sometimes beat the sperm with the glass until it stops moving. The only thing that matters is the DNA inside the sperm.
My notes:
Sperm is so powerful that it can be dead and still accomplish its mission. That other thing do you know that can be dead and complete its mission?
11 Which Way Do We Go?
Sperm can certainly whip their tails, but many have a hard time swimming in a straight line. In fact, only about half do. The rest swim around in circles or bob along with the motion of the semen.
But because so many start their journey, plenty make it to the egg. And that's despite the fact that the tubes connecting the uterus to the ovaries contain tiny hair cells that beat against the sperm.
Ever seen salmon swim upstream? It's a bit like that.
My notes:
Sperm is so fluky at times that it stays lost in the center of nowhere and still some of them stay smart and eventually escape the pool. Imagine swimming in a pool with adult sperm and baby sperm. Well, one of them like won't win and it's the baby sperm. Talking about salmon. Imagine sperm that large at how the baby would be.
12 Sperm Live for Days
How long can a sperm cell live once inside a woman's body? About two days.
My notes:
Well with 2 days of roaming, that sperm will become more mature as it penetrates the egg. Must be a wonderful feeling to know you're out of male territory and into female territory. We can get fully inside of a woman but our sperm can. DANG!! I'm sorta jealous.
13 The Y Stands Alone
Once a sperm fuses with an egg, the chromosomes swap bits of DNA, meaning that each becomes a mash-up of mom's and dad's DNA. But there's one exception: the Y chromosome has no counterpart within the egg's DNA, so it's passed along essentially unchanged from father to son.
In fact, a man's Y chromosome looks just like his father's and his father's father's, and so on, back through the generations.
My notes:
Although male sperm swims 30% faster on average than female sperm, female sperm is 35% larger than male sperm on average. Even female sperm slightly outlives male sperm. Male sperm never makes a full transition from the time the creation of the male sperm. Only female sperm gets fully transitioned. The miracle is when sperm is created, how does it know how much male and how much female sperm to create.
14 Refrigerator Testicles
Sexual passion may be hot, but a guy's testicles stay cool - about 7 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than ordinary body temperature. That's just right for producing healthy sperm.
A man's body keeps the ideal testicle temperature with radiator-like veins that pull heat away and muscles in the scrotum that raise and lower the testicles to bring them closer to the body's warmth - or farther away.
If a guy crosses his legs, his scrotal temperature increases by about 2 degrees. Ditto if he wears briefs. But lots of guys who cross their legs become dads, and Dr. Niederberger says the idea that wearing boxers will help boost fertility is probably misguided.
My notes:
Temperature is everything is determining how healthy your sperm can be as well as diet and exercise. Yeah, boxer versus briefs is not true like people assume.
15 Two Months to Make Sperm
How long does it take to make sperm? About two months, according to the latest studies.
"Sperm are being started all the time, just like an assembly line," says Dr. Niederberger. "You don't wait for a truck to finish the assembly line before starting to build another, right? But just like an assembly line, it takes time to go from the start to the end."
So get busy.
Notes:
Yeah, just like flowers take time to bloom and blossom, sperm takes time to grow. I'm sure it's not the same time but lets get busy and make babies.
Thanks for reading and watching and which of these 15 surprises you the most? Is it number 11? If not, which?
What Girls & Guys Said
1 0Wow! Im stunned
Contraception kills sperm. Birth control kills sperm. I don't want a woman killing my sperm but thrilling on my sperm inside.
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