can bikram yoga affect fertility in men?
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I would imagine you are asking becuase of the HEAT? I did not find anything that would suggest this in the search I just did, but it may not be studied really.\n\nBUT YOU CAN ASK THE SOURCE>>>>>\n\nHere: ainslie@BikramYoga.com\n\nMy opinion is: I highly doubt it.
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No known medical treatment in allopathic system for treatment of Oligoasthenospermia, Homeopathic medicine are effective in more than 95 % patients. You can read more about it at the links below....
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Men have this notion that yoga is "gay" because there are more women doing yoga (especially in the US).  \n\nIn my opinion, more guys should try doing yoga.  There can be physically demanding.  It is actually not as easy as it looks. Plus it benefits you physically, mentally and emotionally.  \n\nIn India, where yoga originated from, more men than women practice yoga.
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If you're deficient in zinc, supplementing with it can help increase testosterone levels and reduce estrogen levels which could possibly help with sperm production.  If you're not deficient in zinc, though, I don't think taking more will do anything.
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Well since my partner and I have taken up Yoga we have altered our way of eating and become much more disciplined in exercising, Not to mention our flexibility is astounding compared to what we were like  before.\n\nAll age groups attend sessions, from the (well frail n aged) to mid lifers to the young....everyone at a different level , it is strange how yoga is perceived to be a Gay pursuit ,usually from the un-informed.\n\nIt works out certain vital organs in our bodies which in turn helps us ward off illnesses  and makes us much fitter in process, so to me I feel it should be taught  in schools as a subject.....
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Not harmful.  Recent studies have shown that men who "exercise" their reproductive organs on a regular basis have a healthier prostate gland and urinary tracts.  It needs exercise like the rest of the body.  Additionally, pre-ejaculant fluid contain components that cleanse the urinary tract of bacteria, so as to minimize the destruction of sperm.  However, if you m-bate quite often, you may not be able to have an orgasm without "flogging your bishop" yourself.  So make sure you "exercise" that area in other ways besides just m-bating.
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Yes, massaging the scrotum and testicles is a way to help increase your penis' health and prevent prostate issues.\n\nfrom http://www.hotlib.com/articles/show.php?t=Increase_Sperm_Count:_10_Ways_you_can_Increase_Your_Sperm_Count\n10 Ways you can increase Your sperm count: \n1. Have sex & masturbate less often - the more times you ejaculate, the less dense your semen will be. Maintain a gap of 3 days between two consecutive ejaculations. \n2. Refrain from habits like smoking, alcohol consumption etc. - Alcohol affects your liver function, which, in turn, causes a dramatic rise in estrogen levels. Even two drinks a day will have long-term effects on sperm production\n3. Exercise regularly.Exercising your PC muscle can help you shoot further than ever before.Read How to Exercise your PC muscles at http://www.ayurvediccure.com/penis_enlargement_stretching.htm \n4. Eat Nutritious Food - Diet that's low in fat, and high in protein, vegetables, and whole grains is good for your health and for your sperm. Avoid bitter, astringent and spicy foods.Reduce caffeine intake \n5. Avoid heating of testicles - Wear loose, cotton boxer shorts, Avoid hot baths and saunas \n6. Lose any excess weight, which tends to cause testosterone/oestrogen imbalances. \n7. Reduce stress levels by learning relaxation techniques - Keep your mind and body healthy by regular practice of YOGA and MEDITATION.\n8. Massage body with herbal oil, which improves blood circulation. Try Penis Massage Oil available at http://www.ayurvediccure.com/penis_enlargement.htm\n9. Try supplements - Certain natural supplements promise to increase sperm production.\n10. Make love in the early morning or afternoon. Sperm levels are often highest in the mornings.
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Plenty of C vitamin and Zinc.\n\nThat is why Chyvanpras, sex tonic from indian ayurvedic system contains amalki, one fruit amalki contains C-vitamin equivalent to 10 lemon fruits. Vit E from sprouted legumes also helps.\nIn addition, milk, dates, sprouted legumes, almonds, honey will help to increase sperms. see some articles on \nhttp:/groups.yahoo.com/group/ayurvedaonline/messages\nwhich you can obtain by search using keyword 'fertility'.\nIndian ayurveda system offers special formulations too, which are available online.
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I am a conscientious but nondenominational exerciser, and coming to Bikram (a.k.a. "Hot") Yoga began more as a scheduling convenience than devotion to its unvarying regimen of 26 poses (asanas), each performed twice and held for what can seem like forever over the course of the nearly two-hour class. \n\nYoga comes in almost as many guises as there are yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that. \n\nThe truth is, I hated this Bikram class when I started. At first I returned only because I was desperate — the victim of a muscle-kinking bout of business travel (cramped airline seats and strange beds). Our teacher, Leah Weisman, seemed to talk incessantly. The room was always full, from 30 to 50 people. And the space was intentionally overheated. \n\nTrue Hot Yoga requires a room temperature as high as 105°F, supposedly so muscles warm up quickly and stretch more easily. This gym's drafty old studio achieves only Balmy Yoga — about 81°F — which is just as well. I've experienced optimal Bikram temperatures just once, and frankly, that's way too much bodily fluid shared and dripped and flicked around among a bunch of people who know one another in anything less than a biblical fashion. \n\nBut the thing I hated most about the class was that at the very end, while everyone was resting for a few minutes in the stillness of Shavasana, the corpse pose (designed to quiet the mind), Leah broke into song. Classroom scuttlebutt is that she has been known to sing On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever, but I've only heard her sing verses from New Age-y folk tunes that mention planets spinning around the sun and the Earth Mother calling her children home. \n\nWhy torture myself so? Simple: love triumphs over hate. As it turns out, Leah is an excellent teacher. Week after week she goes through the same routine without ever falling into autopilot. She is very "present in the moment," as she might describe it. Leah offers cautions about overexertion, suggestions on how to do each pose at various levels of challenge, and great good humor. Last week she talked about a meditation seminar she had attended and called the impromptu lecture her "sermon on the mat." \n\nAs a gasping heater blows lukewarm air around the room, she intersperses practical instruction ("Pull up your quads as you pull down your hamstrings") with abstract concepts ("Remember, you're burning new neurological pathways") that I take or leave, depending on my mood. \n\nLeah wanders among the students, propelling the class forward even as she stops to adjust an arm angle here or perform a thyroid-massaging chin tuck there. She urges noncompetition, with oneself ("However you do the posture today is how you should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling in opposite directions? How does my alignment shift when I turn my foot three degrees to the right? \n\nSome people criticize Bikram for being too arduous, but as with all yoga, much of the responsibility falls to the individual. I welcome this opportunity to eschew faster, higher and stronger in favor of deeper. In this regard, the simplicity of Bikram's poses is one more way to avoid being distracted from myself. \n\nTo spend this much time slowly and gently stretching is a luxu
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This ancient tantric technique"Kaya Kalp Yoga" was used by Indian Yogis to live longer up to 600 to 1000 years,mainly using breath exercises and special cleansing techniques from Ayurveda like Panchkarma.In ancient texts one can find reference to 90 days special kaya kalp program which can rejuvinate body cells again returning the vitality of young age.
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Scientists aren't exactly sure why yoga has physiological benefits, but at least some of its success can be attributed to stress reduction, the relaxation response and "exercise" element with benefits that parallel traditional exercise.
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One of the best stress busters around is yoga. It directly counteracts both the physiological and psychological components of stress, simultaneously helping you take better care of yourself and change your attitude. The stretching you do in yoga relieves muscle tension. Upside-down poses and reclining poses slow the heart, relax the blood vessels, inhibit production of norepinephrine, and calm the brain. Pranayama (yoga's classic breathwork) slows respiration. As you practice being more aware and mindful, you gain a sense of self-control, equanimity, and peace. Perhaps most important of all, meditation and the teachings of yoga philosophy can help you realize that most of the things that upset you just aren't worth getting stressed about.
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The pranayam part of yoga is just breathing and meditation which is completely safe and beneficial even during pregnancy. Alot of times pranayam is paired with more physical areas of yoga were it becomes an exercise. Almost every kind of exercise is safe if you have a normal pregnancy and don't over do it. If you have never done yoga or a similar exercises before you should check with the doctor first. If your doctor clears you, start out slowly and don't overexert yourself.
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Of course. \n\nYour body is equipped to protect itself, expecially the more important parts.\nWhen the temp drops, blood vessels close to the skin surface close up, reducing the amount of blood that is "chilled", thus protecting your core temperature.\nSoft tissue structures, such as the genitalia, tend to rely on blood volume to maintain their shape and size.  Take away the blood flow, they shrink. \nIn addition, the testes are drawn up into the body to protect them, for much the same reasons. It's an involuntary reaction (though some martial artists learn to control the effect voluntarily, as a safety precaution).\n\nThe only cure for this shocking condition is a nice warm shower...
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I wouldn't think that would make a difference. Do you drink alcohol, do drugs like meth, wear tighty whiteys, soak in Jacuzzis? \nThere are all kinds of reasons for not being able to have children. It might not even be you, maybe your wife is having trouble?\nEither way, it's easier and less expensive to test the man first.
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There is no general answer; one would need to know the exact treatment involved, or at least the drug.\n\nHowever, it's unlikely.  Fertility is a complex mix of factors, including some as random as diet and stress, to the obvious such as exposure to radiation.  I am fairly on top of the medical literature and have never heard of a fertility increase being passed on to a daughter via a mother's treatment.\n\nIt's more likely there are other explanations:\n1) you or the father may be younger then they were.  Age has an enormous relation to fertility.\n2) you or the father may be healthier than they were.  Health (and stress and diet) have a relation to fertility.\n3) the father may have higher sperm count/motility than your parents or your husband's parents.\n4) you are experiencing normal statistical variance in pregnancy, but (to you) it seems like it is highly unusual.\n\nand so on.\n\nMy bet, without knowing more, is on #2 or #4.
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there is a website for yoga, Bikram Yoga is REALLY good for weight loss (given that u dont have heart problems).\nAlso, if u just run, jog, dance, have sex, do whatever continuous exercise for 20 minutes a day every day for several months u will notice a significant weight difference.\nswimming is also very good for a total body workout.\nwhen u work out regularely tru to eat at least 4-5 times daily (small meals).\nin conjunction to aerobic exercise do some weight training to ensure you dont sag afer you loose weight.