The Burden of Metabolic Diseases on Male Reproductive Health

During the recent decades, we have witnessed fertility rates dwindling worldwide, while metabolic diseases followed an opposite tendency, with their prevalence dramatically increasing [1-3]. Those trends are particularly marked in both developed and under-development countries, where type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity are key players in the ever-increasingly number of new metabolic disorder cases, fostered by overeating and sedentarism