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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582534
I wonder if it gets as many upvotes? Or if hacker news prefers to get its fertility analysis from theoretical physicists.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have enough investments and fiat to not be the poor sucker who can’t pay for help end of life as the young, productive cohort compresses.
Outcomes aren't great for old folks who go into homes without having someone on the outside looking out for them. I don't know if you've seen the recent stories but a little cognitive issues and you'll be signing away everything you've earned to the home itself or one of it's employees. It's quite common.
Most hygiene products get away with listing diethyl phthalate as 'Parfum'.
What we need is not savvy consumers what we need is regulators to get serious.
I had a test recently and I have 0% "normal" sperms, when 4%-14% is the normal range. Pretty radical. The doctor said to take vitamins, to get testosterone to normal level, and to excercise. In other words not much to do
But are they? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/fears-over-fa...
"In addition, they argued that the design of the 2017 study relied on racist and colonial hierarchies"
I get that everyone has their biases, but this sounds like it's up there with the feminist approaches to rocket science that claim rockets are shaped the way they are for Freudian reasons. The only specific claim your linked article is making against the actual studies/data is that there is not nearly as much data for Asian, African, and South American countries as there is for Europe and North America. Which is a great point, we need more data, but it doesn't really undermine or debunk any of the other claims being made.
From what I hear our friends story is not unusual and many in our age bracket 20-30 year olds are struggling to have children.
Don't really know what my point is except it is interesting and I am wondering what the potential impact of the increased difficulty in having children is.
I had a test recently and I have 0% "normal" sperms, when 4%-14% is the normal range. Pretty radical. The doctor said to take vitamins, to get testosterone to normal level, and to excercise. In other words not much to do