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The quality of male potency depends on blood type
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
Turkish scientists, representatives of Ordu University, claim that a man's blood group can influence his potency.
Numerous experiments conducted by scientists have demonstrated that men with the first blood group are significantly less likely to complain of poor erection quality.
Interestingly, according to statistics, more than 40% of all men on the planet are holders of the first group. Therefore, more than half of the male population in the world may be subject to the development of impotence.
The experiment, which was conducted by Turkish specialists, involved 350 males of different ages who had complaints about potency. The average age of the participants was about 30-50 years, but not more than sixty years. After all the participants gave blood for analysis, it was discovered that among them there were practically no people with the first blood group: all the other groups were present in approximately equal proportions.
Of course, the experiment was immediately subjected to harsh criticism, both in the media and among doctors who work in this area. Analyzing the information obtained as a result of testing only three hundred people, it is impossible to obtain truly and 100% truthful conclusions. Nevertheless, most scientists admit that the data obtained also have significant significance in the field of statistics: it is impossible to fully assert the coincidence of such facts.
It is currently unknown whether the results of the study have been accepted by scientific critics and whether they have been formally published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Russian professor, Doctor of Sciences Lev Shcheglov, who has been studying psychology and sexology for many years, believes that the statement about the relationship between blood group and male sexual capabilities is not true: "Sexology, as a science, does not have such information about such a relationship. Most likely, we are dealing with meaningless data, with an attempt to make a sensation out of nothing. If such a study is conducted, then its participants should not be selected randomly, but very specifically." In addition, the professor added that he treats such statements with irony and considers them, at the very least, "absurd."
A large number of studies have been conducted on this issue before. For example, it was found that at least ten percent of the male population sooner or later discover problems with erectile dysfunction. And in people who have overcome the 40-year barrier, such disorders are recorded in every third case.
As doctors themselves say, common medications aimed at improving erectile function do not help all men. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the causes of impaired potency can be different: most often we are talking about bad habits, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases.