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4/25 what is downside of vasectomy?
\_ Why would you want a vasectomy? - motd not getting laid guy
\_ why are you still not getting laid? lots of promiscuous
women in the San Diego area:
http://www.courttv.com/trials/sommer/113007_ctv.html
\_ already have 6 kids. -mormon
\_ If you're done having kids, it's a much less invasive procedure
than a woman getting her tubes tied.
\_ A few weeks of discomfort. Not generally reversible.
New studies suggest it may increase chances of senility in old age.
\_ what if you take synthetic testosterones?
\_ A vasectomy doesn't terminate testosterone production. It just
keeps the sperm cells from mixing into the seminal fluid (the
vas deferens, the tube that delivers the sperm cells is
severed, a section removed and the ends sealed), and the cells
are reabsorbed into the body. The going hypothesis about
senility is that sperm cells that can't exit the body are
attacked by the immune system and that the body starts
attacking cells in the brain as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasectomy#Vasectomy-Dementia_Link
\_ how do you explain that everytime I jackoff I feel
so brain dead and do worse on exams?
\_ oh shit! I better start ejaculating more |
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| www.courttv.com/trials/sommer/113007_ctv.html NCIS Declaration Rob Terwillinger of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NICS) outlines how the investigation of Todd Sommer's death evolved from a heart attack to a homicide. Search Warrant This search warrant authorized Florida police to seize evidence, spefically computers, from the Palm Beach County home where Cynthia Sommer resided in November 2005. By Lisa Sweetingham Court TV SAN DIEGO -- A new trial was ordered Friday for Cynthia Sommer, a mother of four who was convicted in January of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to collect his veteran's benefits. "However I rule on this case, we all feel great sorrow that Todd Sommer, a great man and a great Marine, is no longer with us," Judge Peter Deddeh announced minutes before overturning the guilty verdict and granting the defense's motion for a new trial. The ruling spared Sommer a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole for the mysterious 2002 death of her 23-year-old husband. Todd Sommer's father sat quietly in the gallery with a stoic thousand-yard stare as the judge rendered his decision. Across the aisle sat the defendant's family and friends, who wore ribbons of blue, the defendant's favorite color. They held hands, heeding the judge's warning to refrain from emotional outbursts. Story continues Story continues Advertisment The decision came on the anniversary of Sommer's arrest for murder. After two years in jail, her face is pale and thin, her hair is dark, and the last vestiges of her blond highlights have grown out to wispy straw-colored tips. She smiled at her family and thanked her appeals attorney, Allan Bloom, who argued over three days of hearings that her murder trial was marred by juror misconduct, fuzzy science and blunders by her previous attorney, Robert Udell. Udell testified Friday, before the court's ruling, that he was "scared to death" of the potential consequences his errors might have on his 30-year practice. He told the judge that his belief in Sommer's innocence had blinded him at trial. "It was a dead-bang winner as far as I was concerned," Udell said, adding that he had not slept since the verdict. Bloom called Udell a passionate attorney who suffered from "legal glaucoma." But Deputy District Attorney Laura Gunn argued that Udell's counsel, while not "stellar," was reasonable, informed and thoroughly competent. Already sensing the court's decision, her final words were an emotional plea as she asked Deddeh, "Please do not grant this motion." "He missed many areas that would have been fruitful for his defense," Deddeh said. "And in missing those areas, I believe he was ineffective." Those areas included failing to object to controversial evidence about the arsenic test results; failing to call witnesses to debate questionable testimony from state investigators about the ease with which one may obtain arsenic; and failing to counter or investigate testimony that the Marine base where Todd Sommer worked was free of arsenic. The judge also found that Udell made the crucial mistake of posing questions to witnesses about Sommer's behavior after Todd's death. Sommer's mother testified at trial that her daughter was hysterical, lying in a fetal position, and clutching Todd's shirt -- testimony that opened the door for prosecutors to call witnesses who described the string of men in Sommer's bed, the late-night parties at their apartment and the breast-implant surgery that also characterized her grieving behavior. The judge did not cite the defense's allegations of juror misconduct as having any basis in his ruling. Bloom claimed that one juror, a retired detective, conducted personal research and had considered improper information during deliberations. Udell smiled and hugged Sommer's family after hearing the judge's decision. As he left the courtroom, he was overheard telling Sommer's mother, "Good luck this time." His death was initially ruled heart failure, but samples of his vital organs and tissues were retained for future testing, per Marine Corps policy. Sommer collected $250,000 insurance, as well as monthly benefits. More than a year later, scientists found elevated levels of arsenic in Todd's tissues: more than 1,000 times the normal level in his liver and 230 times the acceptable level in his kidneys. Sommer testified during her month-long trial that she loved Todd, a man she called her knight in shining armor. She showed jurors the tattoo on her arm with his birth and death dates, and the Marine motto "Semper Fidelis," Latin for "Always Faithful." State investigators testified that it was easy to purchase arsenic online or as an ingredient in ant-trap stakes sold at the base market, but they were unable to uncover any receipts, credit card statements, or computer searches indicating that Sommer ever sought or obtained the poison. Expert witnesses testified at trial that Todd had an inconsistent distribution of arsenic in his tissues samples. The significantly high levels in his liver and kidney should have resulted in elevated levels in his blood, urine, brain and other organs. But Gunn made a compelling argument to the jury that if he died of arsenic, as the tests indicated, only Sommer had both the financial motive and the proximity to commit an untraceable murder. guilty of first-degree murder and the special allegations of administering poison and murder for the purpose of financial gain. The verdict drew intense debate: Some believed the defendant was an opportunistic black widow who preyed on an unsuspecting solider; others saw her as a woman branded by her promiscuous behavior, the victim of an unreasonable double standard. Bloom is expected to introduce experts on grieving at the next trial and contends that Sommer did not even know what arsenic was, nor did Todd die from arsenic poisoning. Cynthia Sommer is currently in custody at the Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility in Santee, Calif. |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasectomy#Vasectomy-Dementia_Link Almost all failures are due to disregarding this instruction. Clinic review None Advantages and Disadvantages STD protection No Benefits Local anesthetic to the scrotum and vasa deferentia by needle or jet injection, as opposed to general anesthesia usually needed for female sterilization. Risks Risk of chronic pain, incidence and severity is widely debated. in which a surgical hook, rather than a scalpel, is used to enter the scrotum. Another type of vasectomy which may reduce the risk of chronic pain could be the so-called "open ended" vasectomy. A "normal" vasectomy typically seals both ends of the vas deferens with stitches, heat, or both, after cutting. The open-ended vasectomy seals only the top end of the vas. With this method sperm are free to spill out from the lower severed end of the vas thus avoiding any build-up of pressure. The likelihood of long-term testicular pain from "backup pressure" seems to be eliminated using this method. Sperm is matured in the epididymis for about a month once it leaves the testicles. Approximately 50% of the sperm produced never make it to ejaculation in a non-vasectomized man. edit Effectiveness Early failure rates, ie pregnancy within a few months after vasectomy, are below 1%, but the effectiveness of the operation and rates of complications vary with the level of experience of the surgeon performing the operation and the surgical technique used. Overall, tubal ligation is ahead of vasectomy but not by a large factor. In Britain vasectomy is more popular than tubal ligation, though this statistic may be as a result of the data-gathering methodology. In one study, vasectomy reversal was found to be 69% effective for reducing the symptoms of chronic post-vasectomy pain. Treatment options for 31% of patients whose pain did not respond to vasectomy reversal were limited. The study was very small, only evaluating 13 patients, making it difficult to draw solid conclusions. edit Vasectomy-Dementia Link Research on potential risk factors for Alzheimer's disease has revealed a surprising association - the development of an unusual form of dementia is much more common among men who have experienced a vasectomy. Although the finding is recognition of an association, not a cause and effect, additional research is indicated. The dementia is Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a neurological disease in which people have trouble recalling and understanding words. In PPA, people lose the ability to express themselves and understand speech. It differs from typical Alzheimer's disease in which a person's memory becomes impaired. Northwestern University physicians began investigating a possible link between the surgery and PPA after a male patient connected the onset of his language problem at age 43 to the period after his vasectomy. Sandra Weintraub, principal investigator and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurology and her team of researchers surveyed 47 men with PPA who were being treated at Northwestern's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center and 57 men with no cognitive impairment who were community volunteers. Of the non-impaired men, 16 percent had undergone a vasectomy. In contrast, 40 percent of the men with PPA had had the surgery. "That's a huge difference," said Weintraub, director of neuropsychology in the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center. "It doesn't mean having a vasectomy will give you this disease, but it may be a risk factor to increase your chance of getting it." While PPA robs people of their ability to speak and understand language, an unusual twist of the disease is patients are still able to maintain their hobbies and perform other complicated tasks for a number of years before other symptoms develop. Some people garden, build cabinets and even navigate a city subway system. By contrast, Alzheimer's patients lose interest in their hobbies, family life and may become idle. As PPA progresses over a number of years, however, patients eventually lose their ability to function independently. Preliminary evidence from the study also seemed to connect another form of dementia to a vasectomy. In a smaller group of 30 men with a dementia called frontotemporal dementia (FTD,) 37 percent had undergone a vasectomy. The earliest symptoms of FTD are personality changes, lack of judgment and bizarre behavior. As in PPA, FTD usually starts at an earlier age, in the 40s and 50s. One of Weintraub's patients with FTD was eating lunch in a restaurant with his family and excused himself to go to the bathroom. When he hadn't returned after 10 minutes, his sons went to investigate. Other FTD patients begin shoplifting, compulsively gambling, misspending large amounts of money or become sexually demanding. The most common form of dementia caused by brain deterioration in individuals over age 65 is Alzheimer's disease. Weintraub did not find an increased rate of vasectomy in patients with Alzheimer's. Many patients with FTD and PPA share a common brain disease that is completely different from Alzheimer's. Whether a patient will get the behavioral or language problems depends on where the disease causes the most destruction in the brain. in PPA, it's in the language centers of the left hemisphere of the brain. Weintraub theorizes a vasectomy may raise the risk of PPA (and possibly FTD) because the surgery breeches the protective barrier between the blood and the testes, called the blood-testis barrier. Certain organs - including the testes and the brain - exist in what is the equivalent of a gated community in the body. Tiny tubes within the testes (in which sperm are produced) are protected by a physical barrier of Sertoli cells. The tight connections between these cells prevent blood-borne infections and poisonous molecules from entering the semen. After a vasectomy, however, the protective barrier is broken and semen mixes into the blood. The immune system recognizes the sperm as invading foreign agents and produces anti-sperm antibodies in 60 to 70 percent of men. Weintraub said these antibodies might cross the blood-brain-barrier and cause damage resulting in dementia. "There are other neurological models of disease which you can use as a parallel," Weintraub said. Certain malignant tumors produce antibodies that reach the brain and cause an illness similar to encephalitis, she noted. The next step in Weintraub's research will be to launch a national study to see if her results will be confirmed in a larger population. "I don't want to scare anyone away from getting a vasectomy," Weintraub stressed. This is just a correlational observation," she said of the dementia connection. The research was conducted as part of an Alzheimer's Disease Core Center Grant from the National Institute on Aging. "High Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy and Diploidy Rate of Epididymal Spermatozoa in Obstructive Azoospermic Men". Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 20 : 196 - 203. |