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Decide that you're ready to start a family,
and then it doesn't happen.
It starts to become like this obsession,
and then you could just kind of
lose like the joy of of your
everyday life. It's been a long
journey for Sindel and Chris Sir
develop they started trying to
have a baby four years ago when
they were both in their late 20s.
They struggled trying to conceive and
resorted to in vitro fertilization.
After several failed treatments
and a miscarriage,
it consumed your everyday life.
Because your normal activities were
not as fun anymore because you're
only sole focus was to try to make
him the sort of else were
diagnosed with unexplained
infertility. 20% of the couples that
we see in average have what we call
unexplained infertility. Infertility is on
the rise with at least one in 10 couples
struggling to get pregnant in the
United States, e.g is a major
factor as far as the reproductive.
Potential of any couple the age
of the female partner according to
the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Advanced maternal age refers
to women aged 35 and older.
The term is intended to
highlight the increased risk of
complications that can occur,
such as difficulty, conceiving,
miscarriage, and birth defects.
The age factor is pretty well known.
Most of us have been reminded of
our ticking Clock at some point,
but new research shows that
infertility rates are rising
because sperm counts are dropping.
All we can say is it has
significantly declined,
with no indication that the rate is
slowing down. Doctor Shanna Swan
is a reproductive epidemiologist.
Her research found.
Sperm counts have dropped by
half in the last four decades.
In 1973, the average Jack Ulate had
99 million sperm per milliliter.
By 2011, the average ejaculate had 47
million sperm per milliliter. Don't
forget it's not just the number
of sperm they have to be shaped.
Well quality, they have to swim well
because they have to swim for them a
long distance and you know it's hard.
You know upstream in her
new book, Countdown, Swan says,
based on the current curve,
sperm counts could be down
to 0 by 2045. So we know,
for example, that smoking
lowers your sperm count.
We know that binge drinking.
Does as well, but
Swann hypothesizes other factors
are leading to an eventual
fertility crisis. While you can
ask people how much they smoke
or how many drugs they take,
you can't do that with environmental
exposures. She believes chemicals from
plastics are getting into our bodies,
impacting our hormones and
ultimately interfering with
our reproductive functions. If
you eat unprocessed food, particularly
if you can afford it organic food,
then you are avoiding. A lot of
exposure, but even changing your eating
habits won't entirely slow the curve.
Swan says. We need new products
made of safer materials.
It will take government intervention. They
have to be made of different chemicals,
chemicals that can't interfere
with their hormones.
It's a call to action.
Many couples like the sort of
else can get behind, so there has
to be something that's causing
these fertility issues that we
never saw before I came along.
End a dilemma. Many fertility
doctors are tracking whole sector
that yes, maybe years down the road
we're going to be leaving in a epidemic
of infertility because there's just,
you know, man just does no
longer produce enough sperm.
It's it's a fascinating concept.
This will take a lot of big effort. I believe
we can do this.