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Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought

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Post by sidewndr46 »

PakG1 wrote: post #156

My wife and I have a beautiful daughter about to turn 2. But she wouldn't have existed if it weren't for IVF (in vitro fertilization). Had to stab her stomach with needles for a while to make hormones to mass produce eggs and then they took my sperm to put into her eggs and see which ones took. Five viable pairings happened. Three were put into her and out came the one kid. Other two are in cryo for future use, and h…

I don't think that is how IVF works, you can't induce an adult female to produce eggs in any medically approved way. Apparently mammals are born with a finite number of eggs that just get used up as they get older.

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Post by xienze »

seydor wrote: post #224
xienze wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But whether sperm counts are falling or not we need more funding towards artificial reproduction and extracorporal pregnancies Seems like a pretty extreme solution to the problem of declining birth rates. Perhaps we’d be better served by encouraging people to reproduce through financial incentives and, frankly, positive propaganda. Part of the problem is that young folks feel like raising children is financially bu…

those things are popular in america but the US doesnt even have a big birth rate issue. Some of the most pro-welfare countries are having the worst crisis in europe. I dont think financial help would do. People really now consider children to be more somewhat a burden to things they want to do in life. I think it was all deliberate, not a forced hand

> People really now consider children to be more somewhat a burden to things they want to do in life.

I think that goes back to decades of negative propaganda.

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Post by guywithahat »

standardUser wrote: post #128
Bubble_Pop_22 wrote: post #86

Now we only need a vaccine against HIV and STDs in general and we can finally do away with condoms.

I can't remember the last time I talked to a gay man who wasn't on PrEP. It's arguable that in reasonably responsible circles, HIV these days poses little-to-no risk, even among sexually promiscuous people. And most other common STDs are completely curable. The big exception is herpes, the spread of which is not prevented by condoms.

Condoms can absolutely prevent the spread of herpes, it's just it can also spread by kissing/etc.

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Post by notch656a »

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #314
willcipriano wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you intend to become elderly? Perhaps not so great news in 50 years when you are looking for a nursing home.

I'll rather hang myself then going to a nursery home now and even more so in the future. I'm living a happy life and looking forward to tomorrow - and yet I am dead serious about that. I've seen enough people in those places. Did you notice that one thing you learned while growing up and maturing was that you started to notice when the party is over and it's time to leave instead of hanging on until the very dire end…

Something like 95% of suicides fail and then they'll toss you into a home or someplace terrible to keep you from doing it again.

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Post by zrail »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #321
PakG1 wrote: post #156

My wife and I have a beautiful daughter about to turn 2. But she wouldn't have existed if it weren't for IVF (in vitro fertilization). Had to stab her stomach with needles for a while to make hormones to mass produce eggs and then they took my sperm to put into her eggs and see which ones took. Five viable pairings happened. Three were put into her and out came the one kid. Other two are in cryo for future use, and h…

I don't think that is how IVF works, you can't induce an adult female to produce eggs in any medically approved way. Apparently mammals are born with a finite number of eggs that just get used up as they get older.

OP was probably using "produce" to mean "ovulate", i.e. cause an egg to leave an ovary.

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Post by jonahrd »

HideousKojima wrote: post #13

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/AfzEs I've heard a lot of theories about what is causing this, the most common being plastics, increased sugar consumption, more people worldwide being overweight/obese, more people worldwide being sedentary/less physically active, exposure to various harmful chemicals, and more. I'd assume it's probably a combination of several factors, but similar to plummeting male testostero…

This is objectively false. It's a well documented fact that women's health is severely underfunded compared to men's health.

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/03/09/womens-health-research-fda-tr...

[2] https://www.everydayhealth.com/womens-health/womens-health-w...

[3] https://theconversation.com/gender-bias-in-medicine-and-medi...

[4] https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/a...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/08/24/the-surprising...

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Post by smilebot »

devmor wrote: post #264
scient wrote: post #246

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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.

Add another $10-15k per cycle if you want genetic testing.
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