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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yeah, I know —I was on my phone posting and if I went away from the site to go do a spelling search, I would have lost my post. And the FR spell checker came up snake eyes for me.....oh well, I figured someone from here would correct me —it’s all part of being “family” :-)
It’s “phyto” ... from Greek, relating to plants.
Our precious bodily fluids.
No problem. I got this covered. Move along.
I’ve read that people in the Oriental world use more natural means to process soy-not all the chemicals we use- nor do they process the soybeans to super-concentrate them as we do here.
A couple of weeks ago, I went grocery shopping with T5’sguy to get the stuff to make a salad topped with some kind of sea food for dinner, because neither of us wanted hot food on a hot day. He picked up a package of that fake crab meat stuff, and we both read the label-the 1st ingredient in it said fish-the 2nd was-soy protein-I imagine an awful lot of people buy that product because of the price and convenience of it, never reading the label. We bought fresh shrimp instead at 3x the price and that is okay...
There’s a job I don’t want!
Sperm Counter.
I had my vasectomy done in 1993 and they’re just now noticing? LOL
Very disappointed in FReepers.
Almost none of the replies are funny!?
As Cosmo Kramer would say “my boys can breathe Jerry!”
“But that was over 34 years ago”
Maybe you should do some testing with your wife just to be you are still OK.
good one
“volume of women taking prescription birth control pills.”
Do you think women would give up birth control pills to save male sperms?
Another study.
Another opinion.
Another piece of suspect information.
I think I found the problem...
-PJ
Maybe it’s completely geographical. Our church supports many “western” missionaries who serve on foreign fields. They’re putting out five to eight kids pretty much across the board.
Actually, with a 50% drop in sperm, you probably have somewhere between 200 and 90 million swimmers per shot. Theoretically, you could impregnate every fertile woman in America every time.
Wife of Dead NYPD Officer Gives Birth to Daughter Using Sperm Preserved After His Death
God Bless them.
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