Singing Birds Could Possibly Help Humans With Infertility

March 22, 2008 - Have you ever found yourself singing uncontrollably, meaning no matter how awful, shrieking glass shattering that you sound, which is often unknowing I might add, that you still can't help singing anyways? Certainly, not everybody goes into operatic renditions while showering. Yet, there's no denying that singing is one of the greatest expressions of human emotion.

If you ask me, we all could stand to do some more singing, which brings me to the point of this news article and the ongoing results of a very interesting study published in the Journal Nature. According to the findings of researchers who have been trying to determine exactly why it is that birds sing, apparently, it's the exposure of a particular brain cell to sunlight that ultimately gets our feathered friends to start chirping.

But there's more to the picture than just cock-a-doodle-doo first thing in the morning. It's the birds cellular release of a thyroid-stimulating hormone that essentially informs, or should I say compels the birds to find a suitable mate. And this, in turn, leads to some attention grabbing chirp-antics.

Ultimately, the research was able to show that the correspondence between the length of sunlight that the birds were exposed to and the amount of thyroid stimulating hormone was directly proportionate. In other words, the more sunlight, the more hormones.

While this information is certainly most interesting, scientists are mainly concerned with how useful it could be for humans. This is largely because us humans have the same cells in question in our own brains. Scientists are using the research to possibly find a way to better treat infertility, especially if the cells are found to be in the human reproductive system.

In the meantime, it's definitely not going to hurt to try singing if you need to get yourself in the mood.

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