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AFH LIBRARY - The Demise of Human Sperm.
 
The Demise of Human Sperm
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."The doctor of thefuture will give nomedicine, but willinterest hispatients in thecare of the humanframe, in diet andin the cause andprevention ofdisease."- Thomas Edison
 
Scientists issue warning about bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical RTM: EarthSave.org: Robbins: The Demise of Human Sperm 3.2.2 rmforallEarthSave International1509 Seabright Avenue, Suite B1Santa Cruz, CA 95062(831) 423-0293 (831) 423-1313 (FAX) (800) 362-3648 (toll free)General information:information@earthsave.org Bookkeeping:finances@earthsave.org Website questions and comments:webmaster@earthsave.org VegPledge program inquiries:vegpledge@vegpledge.com EarthSave International was founded in 1988 by celebrated author JohnRobbins. EarthSave International was the direct result of the overwhelmingreader response to the 1987 publication Diet for a New America. Johncontinues to support the ongoing educational activities of EarthSaveInternational as Chairman Emeritus of its Board of Directors. His latestbestseller is "The Food Revolution." Visit John's sitehttp://www.FoodRevolution.org What is EarthSave?EarthSave leads a global movement of people from all walks of life who aretaking concrete steps to promote healthy and life-sustaining food choices.EarthSave supplies information, support and practical programs to thosewho have learned that their food choices impact environmental and humanhealth.We support individuals in making food choices that promote health, reducehealth care costs, and provide greater independence from the medicalsystem.We raise awareness of the ecological destruction linked to the production of"food animals."We advocate and promote a delicious, planet-friendly diet.******************************************************http://www.earthsave.org/newsletters/sperm.htm They Can Sow But Can't Reap: The Demise of Human Sperm
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AFH LIBRARY - The Demise of Human Sperm.
in plastic.Conventionallyproduced beef inthe United Statescontainsmeasurableresidues ofinjected anabolicsteroids, plusnatural andsyntheticestrogen,testosterone andprogesterone.Men born towomen who eatbeef produce lesssperm. If thewoman eats lotsof beef, there is anearly 20%chance her malechild will bevirtually infertiledue to low spermproduction.-
Human  Reproduction 
,Volume 22,Number 6, pages1497 - 1502.
 
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by John RobbinsIn Diet For A New America I stated that we are witnessing a dramaticdecline in human sperm quantity and quality. If this is true, it is obviously offoremost importance. While it is true that only one sperm is required tofertilize an egg, once sperm counts drop below a certain point infertilitybecomes increasingly common.While skeptics and representatives of the chemical industry have attackedDiet For A New America, and said sperm counts are not really dropping,developments since the book was published in 1987 have not beenreassuring.A 1992 study in the British Medical Journal found that men in Westerncountries today have less than half the sperm production their grandfathershad at the same age. (1) The report examined 61 separate studies of spermcount in men in many countries, including the U.S., and concluded that therehas been a 42% decrease in average sperm count, from 113 million permilliliter (ml) to 66 million per ml, since 1940. (There are 4.5 milliliters in ateaspoon).Furthermore, the average volume of semen diminished from 3.4 ml to 2.75ml, a 20% loss since 1940.
Thus the average man has lost 53% of spermproduction in the last 50 years.
 How low can sperm counts drop before men become infertile? In manyinstances, men are considered infertile if their sperm counts drop as low as20 million per ml, although it is still possible for a man with that sperm countto sire a child if other factors are all favorable. If sperm count drops muchbelow that, however, reproduction becomes increasingly unlikely. Below 5million, a man is definitely sterile.Diminished sperm count is not the only factor in male sterility. If spermquality is compromised, higher sperm counts are needed for reproduction totake place. As sperm motility (the ability of the sperm to move) is impaired,the sperm may be unable to pass through the cervical mucous or penetratethe hard outer shell of the egg. When sperm motility is reduced, spermbecome increasingly incapable of fertilizing the egg.Abnormally shaped sperm also have difficulty fertilizing an egg. In one study,if 14% or more of sperm had round enlarged heads (indicating earlyunraveling of genetic material) the chances for pregnancy fell to about 20%.(2)It appears increasingly certain that in today's world both the quantity andquality of male human sperm are declining. The New England Journal of
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Medicine reported in 1995 that not only had sperm count declined 33%during the past 20 years among fertile, healthy men in Paris, France, butalso that, during the same period, the proportion of motile sperm (spermable to swim) declined at the rate of 0.6% per year, and the proportion ofnormally shaped sperm (compared to misshapen sperm) declined at the rateof 0.5% per year. (3)We now have a scientific consensus that both sperm counts and the qualityof sperm are declining. Yet the chemical industry has only stepped up itsefforts to convince the public and elected officials that the data is tooambiguous and controversial to justify alarm. To do so, they point to possible"confounding factors," such as subject abstinence time before sampling, anddiffering methods of analysis, that can influence the accuracy of sperm countdata. Their tactic is to take legitimate but relatively minor issues and blowthem out of all proportion to imply that nothing conclusive has been learned.In 1999, however, the journal BioEssays published a major report byUniversity of Missouri epidemiologist Shanna Swan that found the dramaticdecline of average sperm density in the U.S. and Western Europe to beeven greater than previously estimated. (4) In a meta-review of data frommore than 60 studies, Swan found that average sperm counts amonghealthy American men dropped from 120 million sperm per milliliterof semenin 1938 to just over 50 million in 1988. In Europe, she found, sperm countsdropped to roughly the same level, and have been dropping by thestaggering rate of 3.1% each year between 1971 and 1990.Despite the efforts of the Chemical Manufacturer's Association, Monsanto,DuPont, etc., to cloud the issue, the evidence of declining sperm levelscontinues to mount. It was The New Yorker Magazine that, in 1961, firstpublished Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. In 1996, The New YorkerMagazine ran a long feature story called "Silent Sperm." (5) The author,Lawrence Wright, interviewed dozens of prominent researchers in the fieldof endocrinology and reproductive health and made some interesting points:1) Danish endocrinologist Niels E. Skakkebaek said it has become difficultfor sperm banks to establish a core of donors. In some areas of Denmark,for example, they are having to recruit ten potential donors to fine one withgood semen quality.2) Skakkebaek also reported that 84% of the Danish men he studied hadsperm quality below the standards set by the World Health Organization.3) There has been a three-fold increase in men whose sperm count is below20 million, the point at which fertility is jeopardized.4) Researchers at the Washington Fertility Study Center report that the
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