“…In fact, the detrimental effect of lansoprazole on sperm function was found to be, at least in part, attributable to the calcium chelating effect of lansoprazole (Banihani & Khasawneh, 2018); given that, free calcium has been approved to have a crucial function in human sperm motility (Abbasihormozi et al, 2017; Miller et al, 2016). Mechanistically, it has been recognised that chemical compounds containing at least two of the following chemical functional groups: –COOH, –OH, –SH, –S–, C=O, S=O, – N =, –NH 2 , –NH– and –O– are acknowledged to have, most of time, a metal‐chelating property (Cherrak et al, 2016; Wang et al, 2017). Such chemical property, in actual fact, applies on lansoprazole as it contains four of the mentioned organic functional groups (–NH–, –O–, –N= and S=O) (Banihani & Khasawneh, 2018).…”