Men who want to have a baby with their partner may want to know how smoking marijuana may help them do it. A surprising study suggest that compared to those who are non-smoker, men who uses marijuana have the higher chance of conceiving a baby with their female partner. In contrast, women who use marijuana have higher chance of pregnancy loss during infertility.
The results of the study were published in the journal Human Reproduction. It was participated by hundreds of couples who were already undergoing treatment to prepare them for in vitro fertilization or the IVF. the report included the fact that women who have admitted to using marijuana are likely to suffer from pregnancy loss compared to those who are not using marijuana at the time of conception.
In contrast to this, the report also shows that the male partners who are admittedly using marijuana are more likely to end up conceiving, compared to couples whose male partners are not into smoking pot.
The results of the study surprised the authors. The team is made up of researchers from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health of Harvard University in Boston. The researchers primarily worked their research along the hypothesis that the use of marijuana does not affect the fertility outcomes either by the male or female partner. This has always been the case in other studies conducted about the topic.
However, the results of the tests conducted present something else. Men who have admitted to ever smoking marijuana in their life have notably higher sperm count than those who didn't. Still, the researchers believe that such results should encourage more men to smoke marijuana to give their fertility capacity a boost. Only a few of the male participants have admitted to smoke marijuana during the course of their fertility treatments, which basically downgrades the possible strength of the expected results.
Although there is still no research that clearly links the positive effects of smoking marijuana on fertility treatments, the authors of the study also says that there are also no studies that show how it could affect a man's fertility treatment negatively. The authors clarified that the results of their study only requires that further research be conducted to clarify the role that marijuana plays in fertility as well as in the overall health of the offspring.
Despite the growing call to legalize the use of medical marijuana, scientists feel that more studies should be conducted to ensure that people understand what they could expect.
