Plummeting Sperm Counts, Gender Dysphoria: Canaries in the Coal Mine Doomsday Scenario for Humanity’s Chemical Laced Future?
#40 Part 1 2023 The Rowen Report
Dear Subscriber,
I have an interesting and intellectual multi-part report for you beginning today, and, I believe you will come to agree with me that our children afflicted with gender dysphoria need our compassion and concern, which I will explain. Their plight is predicting a grave future. I believe this multi part report explains, uncovers, and provides remedy for the coming doomsday for our future on this planet if our people were to understand and embrace the problem and reasonable political solutions.
I believe this report might answer some of the questions you have, and which I have raised here about transgender, and also, a most worrisome concern about our ultimate fate on this planet. I start with plunging sperm counts in men.
Sperm counts in men have plummeted in the last many decades and published 30 years ago in 1992:
OBJECTIVE--To investigate whether semen quality has changed during the past 50 years. DESIGN--Review of publications on semen quality in men without a history of infertility selected by means of Cumulated Index Medicus and Current List (1930-1965) and MEDLINE Silver Platter database (1966-August 1991). SUBJECTS--14,947 men included in a total of 61 papers published between 1938 and 1991. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--Mean sperm density and mean seminal volume. RESULTS--Linear regression of data weighted by number of men in each study showed a significant decrease in mean sperm count from 113 x 10(6)/ml in 1940 to 66 x 10(6)/ml in 1990 (p < 0.0001) and in seminal volume from 3.40 ml to 2.75 ml (p = 0.027), indicating an even more pronounced decrease in sperm production than expressed by the decline in sperm density. CONCLUSIONS--There has been a genuine decline in semen quality over the past 50 years. As male fertility is to some extent correlated with sperm count the results may reflect an overall reduction in male fertility. The biological significance of these changes is emphasised by a concomitant increase in the incidence of genitourinary abnormalities such as testicular cancer and possibly also cryptorchidism and hypospadias, suggesting a growing impact of factors with serious effects on male gonadal function.
Note that both sperm concentration in the ejaculate and the ejaculate volume has dramatically decreased in the 50 years prior to the 1992 report. Now, horrifyingly, sperm counts in a 2017 report says:
The latest analysis added seven years of sample collection and 44 study results to the 244 included in the earlier 2017 analysis. That study, in its analysis of data trends between 1973 and 2011, found an average decline in mean sperm concentration of 1.6% per year, and an overall decline of 59.3%. The latest study found an even steeper decline – to 2.64% post-2000 and an overall fall of 62.3% among unselected men. This, add the authors, represents a decline of – 4.70 million/year, and indicates that this world-wide decline is continuing into the 21st century at an accelerated pace.
A 2015 article reported the average sperm count in 1 ml of ejaculate was 60 million at that time. The fall from 113 million to 60 million is almost a 50% drop! Remember, the pace is accelerating. And please don’t get caught up in the notion that you only need one sperm cell to get to one egg for procreation. Not unlike herds in the wild needing large numbers to survive predators and support each other in survival, conception takes millions of sperm to support the ultimate winner.
The original BMJ report from 1992 indicated that associated with the collapsing sperm counts were other abnormalities in the reproductive tracts of men. This would include hypospadias (abnormal position of urethra opening on penis, testicular cancer, and more).
Now the thoughts of one major researcher has come out in international mainstream news. Famed American scientist Shanna Swan, PhD, has been investigating the effects of EDC (endocrine disrupting chemicals) on sperm counts in men as part of her life’s work. She connected a most interesting finding related to plastic chemicals called phthalates to an easy to measure ano-genital distance (AGD). In male, it would be the distance from the anus to the base of the penis. In females, it would be the perineum, or the distance from the anus to the base of the vaginal opening.
“Her next quest began on a flight to Japan for a conference in the late 1990s. She was sitting next to a chemist from the CDC called John Brock, now a professor at the University of North Carolina, who told her that scientists had identified a “phthalate syndrome” in rats. When male foetuses were exposed to di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), one of the worst actors among the phthalates, a normal testosterone surge early in pregnancy failed to take place. The effects on the rats included a smaller penis, sometimes malformed, undescended testicles and a shorter AGD. Swan was fascinated. It was a new puzzle: could something like a phthalate syndrome affect humans?
Her success in working out a way to measure AGD in babies and children to help answer that question has been one of her most crucial contributions to the field. When I visited her in New York, she went to a cupboard and brought out an anatomically correct doll — called Willy, she said, somewhat impishly — and a pair of callipers to demonstrate the simplicity of the procedure, which is painless. AGD, or the length of the perineum, she explained, can reflect how much testosterone or androgen a foetus was exposed to during a very small window of pregnancy. “If there’s too little androgen for a boy, he doesn’t get fully masculinised,” she said. “If there’s too much androgen for a girl, she gets over-masculinised.” A mother with polycystic ovary syndrome, for example, will produce an excess of testosterone, and her daughter might have a longer, more masculine AGD.”
So Dr. Swan’s work has focused on chemicals introduced in the 20th century as proximal cause of plummeting sperm production in men.
To be continued in part 2 as we examine and connect dots from the declining sperm crisis to the crisis in transgender. If you enjoy the information you receive here, please help the page grow by sharing with your friends and encouraging subscriptions. It is your interest in the serious health/medical issues of our times that keeps me going.
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Robert Jay Rowen, MD
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