Posted on 07/26/2017 10:07:37 AM PDT by Lorianne
Reasons for the ‘shocking’ drop are unclear, say researchers, and represent a huge and neglected area of public health __
Nicola Davis
@NicolaKSDavis
Tuesday 25 July 2017 13.00 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 25 July 2017 20.10 EDT
Sperm counts among men have more than halved in the last 40 years, research suggests, although the drivers behind the decline remain unclear.
The latest findings reveal that between 1973 and 2011, the concentration of sperm in the ejaculate of men in western countries has fallen by an average of 1.4% a year, leading to an overall drop of just over 52%.
“The results are quite shocking,” said Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist and lead author of the study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
While infertility treatments such as IVF can offer solutions to potential ramifications of the decline on one level, little has been done to address the root of the issue, said Levine, pointing out low sperm counts might also be an indicator of poorer health among men more generally.
“This is a classic under the radar huge public health problem that is really neglected,” he said.
It is not the first time researchers have highlighted concerns about sperm counts, but previous studies have been criticised, with some saying the decline could be down to changing laboratory methods, or studies failing to take into account whether participants were selected on the basis of infertility problems.
But the authors of the latest study say they have addressed such concerns, analysing only studies that used the same sperm count method, were of a reasonable size and involved men not known to have infertility problems or disease, among other measures.
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Something in the water?
I have four kids. I must not be affected by these chemicals lol.
Probably all the weed everyone's been smoking for decades.
Those may have been your only 4 sperm!
Alex Jones was right about “them” turning the friggin frogs gay lololol
Ritalin ??
There has been an ongoing discussion about the presence of estrogen in the water system from the volume of women taking prescription birth control pills. I don’t know if there is any merit to linking the two, but it would be an interesting study.
Would hate to have been the PriceWaterhouseCoopers beancounter on THAT assignment!
I have 3 kids, all healthy. I mean, when she went off the pill for each one, it took in a week. Maybe one night. (Or day) But it was quick. But that was over 34 years ago for the youngest one. Maybe all the estrogen in the water and food is killing sperm?
Obesity & being overweight lowers sperm count. And there is no question we have become a bunch of fat asses in the past 40 years.
“Those may have been your only 4 sperm!”
If so good “shooting” on his part.
Too many ball-busting women in the West.
...ducking now
different water, different air in all those countries
so....maybe...
all the chemicals in McD burgers?
Soy? It’s in everything now.
So does age. Over the last 40 years I've become 40 years older. Who knows how many sperm I have left.
Feminist control over schools has emasculated males starting at an early age - we need to kick them out and bring back things like rope climbing and dodge ball.
Note that egg quality is greatly diminishing, much earlier than in past generations. Many young women in their twenties have lost 50% of their egg quality already. There are many more sexual organ birth defects now than earlier as well (hypospadias of the penis is common). And no one needs to add that brain-gender-orientation differences are also at epidemic levels.
We need to clean up our environment.
Young women’s unused wombs all have neurotoxicity plastics in them from a lifetime of exposure. We need to be concerned. Our brains and reproductive systems are soft and vulnerable.
What will be really interesting will be if/when enough evidence is found to make this a plausible hypothesis, in which case the FDA, if it is honest, would be compelled to order the immediate withdrawal of all birth control pills from the market.
The pill is not the only form of birth control, so there is no legitimate reason not to take this step.
It's conceivable that there might be a sharp reduction in gender-confused people as well. Come to think of it, perhaps gender confused people have a cause of action against the makers of birth control pills. I'm surprised some trial lawyer hasn't already thought of this. If the Pope were Catholic, maybe the RCC could take this on.
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