Boxers or Briefs? Which one is the best for your sperm quality? I'm Dr. Rena Malik,
urologist and pelvic surgeon, and today I'm going to explain exactly what the difference
is between boxers and briefs. Do they really affect your sperm quality? Let's find out.
Let me explain exactly where this comes from. There is a lot of data that proves that having
scrotums at higher temperatures can actually impact your ability to produce quality semen or
quality sperm, and so if you think about it boxers leave a little more room to breathe whereas briefs
are a little bit warmer and cozier so the thought has always been that maybe you should avoid
briefs if you're trying to get pregnant, but what's the data? In 1998 they did a study
of 97 men and they asked them what do you wear boxers or briefs and they took semen analysis for
all of them also of those 97 men 14 men decided to switch from boxers to briefs and they also
looked at their semen analysis so essentially they gave their specimen and they analyzed what
was the difference between their semen parameters based on this data is there any real difference
between the quality of their sperm what they found was no there was really no difference they also
measured the scrotal temperatures of men who had boxers versus briefs and found again they were
really very minimally different interestingly in the boxer group actually the temperature
was a little bit higher at 33.8 degrees celsius whereas those in the briefs group had an average
temperature of 33.6 degrees celsius so really no big difference all right so that's just one study
but another study was done in 2016 which looked at 501 couples who were trying to conceive and they
got really into the nitty-gritty what do they wear during the day what do they wear at night
how often do they change their underwear and all these things and what they found again in this
group that there was really no difference so if you're trying to conceive it really doesn't matter
whether you wear boxers or briefs but there may be other reasons to consider one type of underwear to
another so certainly if you're choosing to wear briefs you may notice it's a little bit hot and
humid down there and so in that case you may be at a higher risk of getting jock itch or tinea
creoris basically a fungus that results in a red itchy rash that you find in your groin and
so in order to avoid that you can try using any sort of decaccent powder that dries out the area
like cornstarch in the area of the genitals if you're interested in another video about
different kinds of decascent powders or drying powders let me know in the comments below and
i'll make one of those as well so on the topic of groin fungus interestingly a few months ago i saw
a tweet by a dermatologist that said make sure you put on your socks before your underwear so
you don't get fungus that transfers from your toes into your groin whoa i was horrified she goes on
to say that this actually does happen however it's really only common if you have really horrible
toenail fungus but i think i'll start putting on my socks before my underwear from now on
and lastly what about going commando well you know there's a lot of reasons that people like
to go commando one that i will point out is when you're going commando please be careful
zipping up your jeans or pants that have zippers on them because you don't want to end up like this
exactly what the hell is the situation what did you [ __ ] yourself or something
i got it stuck you got what stuck it oh it uh um uh well uh let's have a look at it
oh my god
sheila you got to come here you got you got to see this don't worry she's a dental hygienist
she'll know exactly what to do hi ted you okay yeah okay holy [ __ ] I mean um is it the um
is it the frank or the beans
oh I I I don't know it looks like I think it's a little bit of both what's that bubble
there what do you think it's a well how the hell did you get the beans above the frag
yeah zipper related injuries are real and they definitely come into the emergency room
and can be quite uncomfortable and quite embarrassing they are easily correctable
but certainly doesn't make for a fun trip to the emergency room all right thank you
guys so much and always remember to take care of yourself because you're worth it