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Sperm counts worldwide have plunged 62% in under 50 years: study
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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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To: ronniesgal

27...probably drank soy milk almost daily for 10 to 12 years.


21 posted on 11/16/2022 1:10:26 PM PST by woweeitsme
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To: hardspunned

Been going on long before the fax.

And smoking had dramatically declined.

Pesticide use and exposure is way down.

It’s xenoestrogens, chiefly from urine from women on birth control pills that has made its way to drinking water. It’s not a mystery.


22 posted on 11/16/2022 1:10:38 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Adder

low sperm and low testosterone....


23 posted on 11/16/2022 1:10:42 PM PST by cherry
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To: algore
Some of us old timers still carry a full payload.

My youngest daughter is four and was born when I was 49....

24 posted on 11/16/2022 1:11:16 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: algore

The sperm cells are wasted on porn.


25 posted on 11/16/2022 1:11:18 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Adder

...and xenoestrogens & phthalates.


26 posted on 11/16/2022 1:11:32 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Dilbert San Diego
And is it really a threat to the survival of mankind, if there are fewer sperm? It only takes 1 out of many millions introduced into the female, to fertilize the egg.

Please educate yourself!

Regards,

27 posted on 11/16/2022 1:12:56 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SuperLuminal
the alan alda approach....don't get upset, don't get angry, and if your dtr is raped and killed just forgive them.....

so sick of it....

if you want to really see whats going on with American men just look at pro basketball....the white stars, and there are quite a few, are foreign...

they have not grown up in America being itimidated by youknowhos.....

I would love to see a million robust Russian men come to this country.....men who remember what being a man is...

I don't like arrogant obnoxious men but I do like strong minded men of character.

28 posted on 11/16/2022 1:15:04 PM PST by cherry
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To: algore

How do they know this? Who checks?


29 posted on 11/16/2022 1:15:35 PM PST by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: algore

I think it’s because the world has lost its best “breeders” in two world wars and add in the last thirty years men have gotten obese and not producing the hormones earlier generations naturally produced by working to survive.

Plus soy consumption leading to “bitch tits”:in men.


30 posted on 11/16/2022 1:16:30 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: algore

Probably because we keep having to see photos of Hillary and Rachel Levine.


31 posted on 11/16/2022 1:17:55 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: combat_boots

We need to preserve “our bodily fluids” eh, General Ripper!


32 posted on 11/16/2022 1:17:58 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: algore

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/06/15/us-abortion-rate-increased-guttmacher/7633229001/


33 posted on 11/16/2022 1:18:23 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: algore

Too much estrogen in dairy products?


34 posted on 11/16/2022 1:20:42 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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To: cherry

Yes indeed!


35 posted on 11/16/2022 1:23:10 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Pollard

The Delaware weekend dude


36 posted on 11/16/2022 1:34:14 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: algore
This has absolutely nothing to do with the advent and use of hormonal contraception.
37 posted on 11/16/2022 1:34:48 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: algore

Don’t worry, folks. I’m doing my part.


38 posted on 11/16/2022 1:36:43 PM PST by Tom in Seattle
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“And is it really a threat to the survival of mankind, if there are fewer sperm?”

If the trend continues the way it has been going, then certainly. Even men with low sperm counts still have millions of sperm, they just don’t tend to produce many children despite that fact.


39 posted on 11/16/2022 1:37:23 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: algore

“Sperm counts worldwide have plunged 62% in under 50 years: study”

I’m sure if they’d tested my wigglers 50 years ago, and then today. The younger ones could definitely outswim my wigglers of today.


40 posted on 11/16/2022 1:40:04 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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