Mouse Swagger – Mice that Eat Yogurt have Larger Testicles

Aron — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:14:38 +0000

Yup…Not only did the Harvard School of Public Health suggest that yogurt, more than any other food, helped to prevent age-related weight gain and shiny luxuriantly silky fur – it also suggested that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.

Researchers spotted some¬thing particular about the males: they projected their testes outward, which endowed them with a certain “mouse swagger.”

More important, that masculinity pays off. In mating experiments, yogurt-eating males inseminated their partners faster and produced more offspring than control mice. Conversely, females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success. Reflecting on their unpublished results, Erdman and Alm think that the probiotic microbes in the yogurt help to make the animals leaner and healthier, which indirectly improves sexual machismo.

So what about us humans, not that I am worried or anything… But it turns out Harvard nutritional epidemiologist Jorge Chavarro has looked at the association between yogurt intake and semen quality in men. “So far our preliminary findings are consistent with what they see in the mice.”

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Mouse Swagger – Mice that Eat Yogurt have Larger Testicles

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