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Experts predict that most couples will need medical help to conceive by 2045, as chemicals destroy health.
Shana Swan, professor of environmental medicine and public health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, has spent years studying patterns of chemical effects on the body.
And in 2017, she documented how the average sperm count among Western men had more than halved over the past 40 years.
By following "the curve from the 2017 Sperm Decline Meta-analysis, he predicts that by 2045 we will have a mean sperm count of zero," Swan said.
The hormone expert expects that most couples will have to resort to IVF or medications to help conceive, claiming that they have noticed an increase in infertility in the younger generation.
"I am talking directly about this hidden problem that people do not like to talk about, which is poor fertility or reproductive problems, and how this relates to the environment. People realize that we have a reproductive health crisis, but they say the reason is delayed childbearing," Swan told the Guardian. Or choice or lifestyle, it cannot be a chemical crisis. "
"I want people to realize that it could be a chemical crisis. I''m not saying that other factors aren''t involved, but I''m saying that chemicals play a major causal role. It''s hard to use the word cause, but it''s a collection of evidence. We have mechanisms, animal studies, studies," she added. Multiple mankind. "
"When my colleague and I looked at the change in fertility impairment (the ability to conceive), we were surprised to see that younger women saw a greater increase than older age groups. This suggests that something besides aging and delayed childbearing affects fertility," she explained. However, there is overwhelming evidence that the risk of miscarriage is on the rise among women of all ages.
Swan said she and her colleagues tracked patterns of chemicals entering the body from plastics and fertility problems and found a link.
Phthalates and Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to make various types of plastics, can interfere with or imitate the body''s sex hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, and disrupt fertility.
According to research published last year for BioMed Central, BPA was found "more frequently in infertile women" and has also been shown to disrupt IVF success.
"In medically assisted reproduction procedures, exposure to Bisphenol A was found to be negatively associated with serum estradiol levels during gonadotropin stimulation, the number of retrieved oocytes, the number of naturally fertilized eggs and their implantation," said the paper, written by Claudia Pivonello and other scientists.
Phthalates have been shown to affect male fertility and reduce sperm count, and they have been doing so since they were added to plastic in the 1930s.
A 2006 study by Giuseppe Latini and other experts said: “An unprecedented decline in fertility rates and prenatal semen quality has been reported during the latter half of the twentieth century in developed countries and there is increasing interest in the potential relationship between exposure to environmental pollutants, including phthalates, and health. Male reproductive system. "
