Among all the other events of the last few years, you may have missed this one: Spermageddon. This is the fun name for the idea that sperm counts among mainly ‘Western’ men are in freefall. The Spermageddon hype began with the publication of a 2017 study showing a nearly 60% drop in overall sperm counts in men living in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
But four years later, it seems that Spermageddon has been overblown. By a lot. And all that hype has obscured the real issue behind declining male fertility.
Further reading:
Human Reproduction Update [original “Spermageddon” study]
academic.oup.com/humupd/artic...
Human Fertility [2021 rebuttal study]
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
Smithsonian Magazine
www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/he...
Asian Journal of Andrology
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
The World Health Organization
www.who.int/docs/default-sour...
National Library of Medicine
medlineplus.gov/ency/article/...
Epidemiology [research journal]
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21629...
BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/health-12634109
British Medical Journal
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1393072/
The Conversation
theconversation.com/male-fert...
Translational Andrology and Urology
tau.amegroups.com/article/vie...
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
asrm.confex.com/asrm/2021/mee...
Urology [research journal]
www.goldjournal.net/article/S...
EXAMPLES OF 2017 SPERM COUNT CRISIS IN THE MEDIA:
The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/he...
BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/health-40719743
Scientific American
www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...
NPR
www.npr.org/2017/07/31/539517...
USA Today
www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...
The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...
Insider
www.businessinsider.com/sperm...
Newsweek
www.newsweek.com/2017/09/22/m...
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