He continued: “You may actually damage testicular function.” “So if you bombard it with heat or light or something like that, you may actually make things worse.” Keith Jarvi, professor of urology and surgery at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. “The thing about testosterone that’s really interesting is that you need to have a normally functioning testicle to produce it,” said Dr. Worse, though, is the fact that red light ball therapy could actually be counterproductive. Anyone interested in the history of the ensuing research (none of it fruitful) can find it summarized by Joe Schwarcz in “ Shining a Light on Testicular Red Light Therapy,” an article on McGill University’s excellent Office for Science and Society site. Most of the misinformation seems to trace its roots to a single incident in 1967, when a lab rat’s surgical wounds appeared to heal up nicely after being exposed to a red laser beam. Not only is there no benefit to tanning your testicles in the sun, there’s also no benefit to exposing your testicles to red light therapy.
Next, let’s tackle the “no scientific benefit” part. It makes no sense to expose one’s testicles to the sun when there is known cancer risk and absolutely no scientific benefit.”
“Sun exposure is a leading cause of skin cancer. An-Wen Chan, Phelan senior scientist at Women’s College Research Institute and a dermatology professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. “‘Tanning’ is the wrong term to use, as infrared light does not produce a tan,” said Dr. Nobody has a great answer for this, but you can’t just leave it hanging out there, either.
Last week, though, when a teaser for a new docuseries,“The End of Men,” featured a clip of Tucker Carlson asking a doctor if men should tan their testicles to raise their testosterone levels, it did feel a little as if the dumbest timeline had become a parody of itself.Īlthough “testicle tanning” was properly roasted all over the internet and late-night TV, it actually raises a number of serious problems, including how to push back against medical misinformation. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.There’s no shortage of social media posts about how we’re living in the “dumbest timeline,” usually in response to some new ridiculous happening in our unrelenting news cycle. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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