Cryos International Sperm and Egg Bank Finds that VR Use During Sperm Donation Improves Sperm Quality - Femtech Insider

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Cryos International Sperm and Egg Bank has published a caller technological survey which suggests that the usage of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets during sperm donation has a affirmative effect connected sperm quality.

During the summertime of 2021 Cryos International introduced VR headsets successful the donor cabins arsenic an optional add-on to the donor experience. Cryos was unaware astatine the time, that this inaugural would extremity up playing a relation successful a higher sperm prime for samples delivered by donors utilizing headsets.

Examining 504 samples from 63 sperm donors, results showed that the sperm prime was notably higher, erstwhile the VR headsets were utilized and the elapsed clip betwixt ejaculations was shorter. For example: erstwhile a donor visited Cryos doubly with an mean of 14 hours successful betwixt visits and the VR headset was used, the samples showed adjacent to a 50% summation successful motile (alive and active) sperm cells. In cases wherever visits were up to 58 hours apart, determination was a traceable, affirmative effect seen successful the prime of the sperm samples.

“We are excited that our instauration of VR headsets has had a affirmative interaction connected the sperm samples our donors deliver. It is simply fantastic!” said Cryos International CEO, Helle Sejersen Myrthue, “In summation to making much high-quality sperm for our customers, we besides spot an absorbing aboriginal of VR studies for men who privation to frost and store their ain sperm earlier crab treatments, subject service, and more.”

The survey was carried retired successful collaboration with internationally recognized scientists Alan Pacey and Robert Montgomerie and tin beryllium viewed present successful the journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology.