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An Italian study published in the scientific magazine “Human Reproduction” has found that smog and pollution affect sperm production and the length of the male reproductive organ.

Carlo Foresta, docent of Endocrinology at Padova University and co-ordinator of the research group “Youth Division at risk of”, sets the alarm.

Humans and animals, through food, water, and contacts, are increasingly exposed to contaminated products, plastic waste, and crop degradation. These elements affect the balance and function of hormones, disrupting them and bringing negative effects on health.

In some animal species living in a highly exposed environment, such as American lakes crocodiles, polar bears, and snakes, an increase in anomalies in the reproductive endocrine system, from reducing the size of the genius organ, to reproductive capacity, and to sexual disorder.

While the Italian study, conducted in a thousand 20-year-old boys, resulted in a reduction in sperm production by -18% in proportion to the youth of 15 years ago, as well as a pronounced hormonal disorder.

And the results of the study, they discovered a reduction in the size of the penis by -0.9cm, in relation to the young people of 15 years ago, as far as testicles are concerned, a reduction of volume was observed at 23% of young people.

All these signals are about a negative effect from chemical elements in the environment on hormone activity to male. This intervention manifests itself both in an embryoal development stage and in adolescence but also in adulthood, resulting in negative effects on male reproductive capacity”, Foresta says.