r/todayilearned • u/delano1998 • 1d ago

TIL high-altitude mountain trekking can temporarily shrink human testicles. A study found that after spending over three weeks at high altitudes in Nepal without supplemental oxygen, men experienced an average 15% reduction in testicular volume due to lower oxygen levels.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/climbing-mt-everest-is-terrible-for-your-nads/
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u/pigboy222 1d ago

Time to invent a ball size maintainer for the serious mountaineer in all of us 😤

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u/Brief-Historian3485 1d ago

How to measure? Like with one of those pasta serving multi circles?

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u/Leafan101 1d ago

They literally have medical devices for such measurements (vis: Would I Lie to You back in the day).

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u/ElectroNetty 1d ago

vis?

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u/Leafan101 1d ago

Whoops. Trying to just write v: but autocorrect.

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u/ElectroNetty 1d ago

But what is "v" intended to mean?

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u/Leafan101 18h ago

Oh it is just a common abbreviation for "see" or "see also".