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What is influence of strong magnetic fields (like neodymium magnets) on testicles?

Macumbakaloo (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:54 am Who knows?

What is influence of strong magnetic fields (like neodymium magnets) on testicles?

Well, for one thing, if you plug your Ipod headphone into the little hole in the end of your peepee, you'll be able to receive XM/Sirius quite well...Honest!

Yoli

Who's absolutely the funniest girl in the known world.

FianceeUvBigGuy (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:12 am Well, for one thing, if you plug your Ipod headphone into the little hole in the end of your peepee, you'll be able to receive XM/Sirius quite well...Honest!

Yoli

Who's absolutely the funniest girl in the known world.

Don't forget the aluminum foil insulation to keep from receiving the Martian brain control waves. And, you thought you were supposed to wrap it around your head.

Macumbakaloo (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:54 am Who knows?

What is influence of strong magnetic fields (like neodymium magnets) on testicles?

Unless you have some ferrous metal in your testicles for some reason magnets it will no effect whats so ever. People are placed inside a MRI medical device which has a very strong magnetic field all the time while ON. No side effect are reported. The MRI can be used to image the genital area with no side effects.

Guess they can be harmed if you place your testicle between 2 magnets. Or with your testicle between a magnet and some ferrous material.

[not going to go into electrical magnetic]

bobbie (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:10 pm Guess they can be harmed if you place your testicle between 2 magnets. Or with your testicle between a magnet and some ferrous material.

This would require placing one magnet on an anvil and using a hammer on the other magnet if you wanted to produce any harm.

JesusA (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:23 pm This would require placing one magnet on an anvil and using a hammer on the other magnet if you wanted to produce any harm.

I guess that would make it a "strong" magnetic field.

Macumbakaloo (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:54 am Who knows?

What is influence of strong magnetic fields (like neodymium magnets) on testicles?

Perhaps we should suggest the idea to the Mythbusters. I can see it now...

On tonight's episode the boys test out the myth that testicles placed between magnets become sterile.

Have you seen some of the insanely powerful magnets they've used on that show? Get your nuts caught between a couple of those, and I think sterility would be the least of your problems.

bobbie (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:10 pm Unless you have some ferrous metal in your testicles for some reason magnets it will no effect whats so ever. People are placed inside a MRI medical device which has a very strong magnetic field all the time while ON. No side effect are reported. The MRI can be used to image the genital area with no side effects.

Guess they can be harmed if you place your testicle between 2 magnets. Or with your testicle between a magnet and some ferrous material.

[not going to go into electrical magnetic]

This is a good question and it concerns me because there is a higher incidence of leukaemia in kids who grow up living close to overhead power lines.

The haemoglobin in blood responds to magnetic fields. It probably needs a long term exposure for any effect to show itself but I for one am fairly sure that magnetic fields do have some effects on the body. If you were to put your balls into

bobbie (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:10 pm a very strong magnetic field

it could slow down the flow of blood through them but it would take several years before they would cease to function.

Permanent magnets or the field from a direct current coil might even cause blockage of blood vessels with iron oxide particles. Alternatively an alternating current coil might have some heating effect.

This is just speculation of course. Meanwhile don't raise children close to overhead power lines. Just because no direct causal link between magnetic fields and leukaemia has been found doesn't mean that there isn't one.

Kortpeel

I believe radio waves are a certain frequency of EMF

Abstract

Within a cohort of 340 police officers, six incident cases of testicular cancer occurred between 1979 and 1991 (O/E 6.9; p<0.001, Poisson distribution). Occupational use of hand-held radar was the only shared risk factor among all six officers, and all routinely held the radar gun directly in close proximity to their testicles. Health effects of occupational radar use have not been widely studied, and further research into a possible association with testicular cancer is warranted. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.