The Truth About "Rising" Male Infertility - Cheddar Explains
January 6, 2022
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as posted by the channelAmong all the other events of the last few years, you may have missed this one: Spermageddon. This is the fun name for the idea that sperm counts among mainly ‘Western’ men are in freefall. The Spermageddon hype began with the publication of a 2017 study showing a nearly 60% drop in overall sperm counts in men living in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
But four years later, it seems that Spermageddon has been overblown. By a lot. And all that hype has obscured the real issue behind declining male fertility.
Further reading:
Human Reproduction Update [original “Spermageddon” study]
Human Fertility [2021 rebuttal study]
Smithsonian Magazine
The New York Times
Asian Journal of Andrology
The World Health Organization
National Library of Medicine
Epidemiology [research journal]
BBC News
British Medical Journal
The Conversation
Translational Andrology and Urology
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Urology [research journal]
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EXAMPLES OF 2017 SPERM COUNT CRISIS IN THE MEDIA:
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BBC News
Scientific American
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USA Today
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