Posted on 11/16/2022 1:00:23 PM PST by algore
Get ready for a baby bust.
Sperm counts globally have fallen at an alarming rate – dropping by more than 62% between 1973 and 2018 – and could lead to a reproductive crisis, new research has found.
During the same period, the concentration of sperm among men dropped by more than 51%, from 101.2 million to 49 million sperm per milliliter of semen, according to the peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in the journal Human Reproduction Update.
That number is still above the World Health Organization’s cutoff, namely 15 million per milliliter, below which men are deemed to have a low sperm concentration, The Times of Israel reported.
But the drop is still alarming, according to Prof. Hagai Levine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who led the study along with Prof. Shanna Swan at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine.
“We have a serious problem on our hands that, if not mitigated, could threaten mankind’s survival,” the epidemiologist said in a statement, adding that the findings serve as “a canary in a coal mine.”
The Israeli and American team, joined by researchers in Denmark, Brazil and Spain, studied sperm count trends in areas that had not been reviewed previously.
Levine noted that the news doesn’t address what is causing the declines, but other researchers have tied falling sperm counts to obesity, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, exposure to certain chemicals and pesticides, among other factors.
In 2017, the same team had already reported about an alarming decline in sperm counts across the Western world, according to Euronews.
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“WE can not allow a mine shaft gap”
‘It’s xenoestrogens, chiefly from urine from women on birth control pills...’
I was about to say it had something to do with pissy women...
“How was your day counting sperm honey?”
thank u
I can just hear it in the bar, can’t you?
“Babe, trust me, it’s ok. My sperm count is down 62%.”
Disturbing.
Or aborted..
Knee jerk vaxx blame. The article states over 50 years. Can we stop with the vax is the cause of everything
“If it has anything to do with the vaxx,”
They have found sperm antibodies in post-vax men but this study ended pre-vax.
They need to do another one!
Dang, you beat me by a couple years but barely. My wife thinks she is still capable and his been on me about another one but holy hell I’d be firmly in my mid 50’s at birth don’t know if my sanity can do another round.
More than likely due to various Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals we’ve pumped out over the last century that are now in nearly everything including the water you drink and the food you eat.
See 52, nothing to do with the Vax, been steadily declining worldwide for decades...
Can you stop you knee jerk defensive reaction to that murderous poison? I’ll guarantee that the vaxx has had some effect on reproduction as well. Obviously, the vaxx has also affected the VaxxHead brains.
Errrrr…….
My sister-in-law is so careful about what her three boys eat, and one forbidden thing is soy. She won’t feed them chicken from markets because the chickens supposedly are injected or fed something that makes the breasts larger. Antibiotics, too.
Purity of Essence…
Maybe a DeLorean with a flux capacitor was involved.
Did you think of that Doc?…
4 kids. Everything still works heh.
It’s hardly news. They’ve know about the seriousness of the problem for decades:
“EE2, a synthetic hormone, is only one of a cocktail of natural and synthetic hormones that humans excrete into wastewater, including other estrogens. EE2 has a potent biological effect at low levels. “Animals are exquisitely sensitive to it,” Jobling told LiveScience.
The body of a fish or a frog reacts to EE2 as if it were a natural estrogen, “demasculinizing” male animals and creating a condition called intersex that interferes with an animal’s ability to reproduce, Jobling said. Intersex males often produce eggs in their testes.”
That’s from 2012
https://www.livescience.com/20532-birth-control-water-pollution.html
Or 2009
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-in-water-supply/
“One of the common culprits is estrogen, much of which is inadvertently released into sewers through the urine of women taking birth control. Studies have shown that estrogen can wreak reproductive havoc on some fish, which spawn infertile offspring sporting a mixture of male and female parts. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that human breast cancer cells grew twice as fast when exposed to estrogen taken from catfish caught near untreated sewage overflows. “There is the potential for an increased risk for those people who are prone to estrogenic cancer,” said Conrad Volz, lead researcher on the study.”
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