whats your opinion on this health article?

mondeo

I became a little concerned when I read this. It makes me feel like I should buy a saddle which will not stress my manly bits .

Is there really any truth in this?

http://www.m.webmd.com/men/features/biking-and-erectile-dysfunction-a-real-risk

ZiabR

There has been articles around this many many times before. It is no secret that a saddle will put pressure on the prostate glad etc but unless you are cycling 5-6 days a week 100+ km a day I dont know if you should be worrying. Look at the pros sure, they live on a bike and plenty of them have kids...

Just practice getting off the saddle and changing position every few km and you will help blood flow and comfort.

Doc07

Jens Voigt, 20 years of thousands of KM per year ; 6 kids and he'll probably live to one hundred.

Barne Riis: 5 kids

Lance : 5 kids

The above anecdotal examples are 'case-reports' ie lowest level of medical evidence but enough for me never to lose sleep over the issue in the linked article.

eeeee

I don't know how much faith I'd put in Mr. Goldstein director San Diego Sexual Medicine . It is in his interest to build up custom…if that were true, no pro's would ever have families, unless in retirement. Jens Voigt has been pro/semi pro for over 20 years and has, as Doc07 says 6 children, pre-retirement. I certainly wouldn't live by the 'rigor' of that article.

quozl

I'm not arguing for or against the value of that article but you can't argue against it on the basis that many pros have children.

If it had a 5% effect for example then you would struggle to notice the difference looking at a group without really careful study. That would still be a significant effect particularly if you're one of that hypothetical 5%.

Traumadoc

Myth

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10952228/Cycling-does-not-cause-infertility-British-scientists-find.html

“This is good news for male cyclists, there is no association between cycling time and erectile dysfunction and infertility,” said study author Dr Mark Hamer, of the Department of Epidemiology at UCL.