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Thats absolutely not true.
You're right, it's not true. It's more like a decade's salary. Full IVF generally ranges from $10-15k USD. Median worldwide income is about $900 USD.
In many parts of the world, it's either way less expensive, or even covered by health insurance (at least a few tries).
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
> to get testosterone to normal level > In other words not much to do Isn't this contradicting? What were your test/free-test levels?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S230505001...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
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I'm a Catholic and fairly traditionally minded and am surprised by what you're saying since at my church, couples in this age range are on their fourth or fifth kid by the time they're 30. Even amongst the newest married couples, most are expecting within the first year. I understand we have different beliefs and such but since we're all in the same environment, how do we explain the simultaneous existence of the see…
> I understand we have different beliefs and such but since we're all in the same environment, Interesting you mention that the group I am referring to and myself are all members of religion generally associated with large families as well. I should also clarify all of them have at least 2 kids at this point. Which is another interesting data point of many of them didn't have difficulty with their first couple of kid…
I wish them the best of luck.
I will say, the first couple of kids make it harder to conceive the rest. Logistically speaking... And also , men's and women's stress levels with young children cannot be good for fertility
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It must be environmental.
it can't really be genetic
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To be fair I think it is kinda racist to categorize sperm as either "Western" sperm vs "other" sperm. They couldn't do the bare fucking minimum and at least separate by continent or wealth? Health?
Maybe it's not the bare minimum? Maybe they had limited funding, largely access only to "Western sperm" (which actually is a reasonable category I would argue because we share a lifestyle to a greater or lesser degree), maybe they had sparse data that covered simply "not the West".