It’s something in the air, or in the water, or it’s that cell phone in your pocket:
…Evidence for a drop in sperm quality and quantity has included anecdotal reports from sperm banks as well as larger scientific studies. For instance, one sperm bank in Israel says that when it opened its doors 1991, it turned away about a third of the applicants for low quality. Using the same standard today, it would reject more than 80 percent, according to an article in the LA Times. And while the jury is still out on whether there is a real “sperm decline” and what that means for fertility, scientists say if the little swimmers are truly changing, it may be a red flag for harmful environmental toxins or even physiological changes in the human body…
I seem to recall that animal populations will decrease as living conditions worsen, and more resources are need simply to keep the breeding adults alive. So, fewer young are produced.
Is Gaia sending some kind of message to human males?
And, where there are no cell phones, is the same thing happening? Any studies?
What the LATimes article didn’t discuss is that sperm production requires more perfect control over cell regulation than any other easily researchable cell type.
So poor sperm production is indicative of faulty cell regulation. It’s highly likely that applies to all cells, it just may not be as evident yet in slower-growing ones with the usual 2×23 chromosome number. Cancer and auto-immune diseases are also, basically, cells having a hard time regulating themselves properly. Who knows, as epidemics go, obesity may come to seem like a nice problem to have.
It seems fairly absurd to think this might be due to cell phones. Surely, most sperm donors don’t keep their phones strapped to their groin? I’ll bet not even a majority do.
I’m guessing the study is saying, “We hope it’s cell phones. Because otherwise we may have to change our entire agro-industrial complex.”
Umm, if you you look at the composition and output of our legislative bodies, I would suggest that this trend was simply missed a couple generations back.