Fertility Potential Of Men With One Testicle

In this short video we'll try to answer what's the fertility potential of men with one testicle using two studies done on the subject. We'll also briefly mention a possible way to increase the odds and improve fertility. Firstly, we'll go over a study where men who had undergone unilateral orchidectomy was evaluated. There were different reasons for the said unilateral orchidectomy, howerever, the results suggested that it always resulted in a considerable decrease in fertility potential, whatever the reason for it. The second study being performed on rats who had one testicle removed (at prepubertal age) and leading to a rather reassuring 70% of the rats with restored fertility. However, the remaining 30% of the rats were shown to experience hampered spermatogenesis, low testosterone levels, decreased testicular weights and were not able to reproduce. And finally, we'll briefly mention a suitable method to increase and possibly restore fertility, and that being by optimizing the temperature of the testicle that's left using a device made for that purpose (uBreeze).