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When men will not have sperm anymore
If humanity is to die, it will not be in the din of a nuclear disaster or the advent of the Mayan prophecies. No, she will be the victim of a discrete undermining that is played today, already in all testicular warming. Death by inches.
Mars 2071, Private Gamete Storage Bank (BPSG) of Villepinte. Louis, a young man of twenty-five, came to make a withdrawal of sperm. Since he is pubescent, he will regularly store at the BPSG, one of hundreds of banks that have bloomed everywhere in recent decades. "It was my father who took me away the first time. Louis is one of those privileged whose spermatozoa are of a satisfactory quality to procreate. "I help out couples of friends sometimes. This is the third time I do it. And again, those are lucky: the woman is fertile, they will not need to dig up more eggs. He prefers this solution to the "gifts" he is obliged to make every year to the Central Bank of Fertility, which he confesses to find a little intrusive. " But I understand ; when one is lucky, like me, to be fertile, one must be in solidarity with the rest of humanity. World fertility began to decline twenty years ago, spawning the bank of Villepinte and many others, and forcing governments to make healthy sperm donations mandatory. Today, all the signals point to an acceleration of the phenomenon. To the point that the states, meeting last month at the summit for the Fertility of Brazzaville, have designated the safeguarding of fertility as a major issue of the decade.
Face death
1er March 2011, the European Union banned the use of Bisphenol A in baby bottles, accusing him of having toxic effects, particularly to address the male children of the reproductive system. Can be seen as an important step towards the framing of risks to our fertility. Yet the problem is not new. From 1950, we see in industrialized societies depletion of sperm, more precocious puberty in girls and proliferation of breast and testicular cancers. In the past decade, the number of testicular cancer has doubled, making the first cancer in young men. Between 1973 and 2002, in France, a survey of sperm banks found that the concentration of gametes declined 30%. 2010 and it was established that men have lost 1% of sperm per year in the last fifty years. Dr. Christine Roullet, gynecologist and fertility specialist, says that it is not just quantity: sperm quality, that is to say, their mobility has been eroded at the same time. A third parameter comes into account: morphology. In the semen of modern man, we find more and more of reproductive cells whose shape is abnormal. A worrying observation, where Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade have looked in 2008 in an uplifting documentary, males at risk.
That makes more than sixty years that one senses the threat to male fertility, no apparent improvement: the causes are many and difficult to control. Demographers have predicted that the world population will stabilize at around 2050 8 9 to billions of people before, perhaps, begin to decrease. Certainly, developing countries will then have completed their demographic transition. But if it was also because humanity is less and less to produce children? And if our finiteness was there, in us, in our reproductive cells? Will he one day when, as in The Son of man [1], the youngest man in the world will 18 years and humanity will look death in the face?
Scientists of course refuse to draw up scenarios too catastrophic. With the caution that characterizes them, they recall, as epidemiologist Bernard Jégou that "the relationship between the downward trend in semen quality and fertility is not an automatic relationship [2]." Dr. Roullet also stresses that in situations of infertility, the problem of women in 40% of the cases, the man in 40%, and an incompatibility between the two for the remaining 20%. But it also said that "we can no longer escape from modernity": our bodies are caught by our lifestyles. For fertility, and particularly male fertility, is attacked by a crowd of elements inherent in the consumer society.
[1] PD James novel, adapted to film by Alfonso Cuarón in 2006 with Clive Owen and Julianne Moore.
[2] In a video made by Inserm available athttp: //www.inserm.fr/reves-de-recher ... nard-Jegou
Source and more: http://www.gqmagazine.fr/pop-culture/gq ... oides/7230
B) Tonight on Arte in 22h10
Males at risk
Directors: Sylvie Gilman, Thierry de Lestrade
Author: Sylvie Gilman
Producers: ARTE France, POINT DU JOUR
dramatic reduction in the quality and number of sperm explosion of testicular cancer, increase genital birth defects. Our ability to reproduce us she would be threatened?
Europa 2008 Price
2008 High School Students / Pariscience Award
beauty products, toys, packaging, etc. : Many products that we handle every day could affect male fertility. An outstanding investigation of chemicals that threaten the reproduction of the human race.
From eloquent scientific results and interviews with researchers, the film investigates this potentially worrying trend as global warming. Today, Denmark to the United States via France, scientists agree to assign a common origin: the chemicals that pervade our environment and affect our endocrine system.
dramatic reduction in the quality and sperm count (- 50% in fifty years), explosion of testicular cancer (quadrupled in sixty years), increased genital malformations of the boy at birth ...: our ability to we reproduce it be threatened? And why ? From eloquent scientific results and interviews with researchers, the film also investigating this potentially worrying trend that global warming
Source: http://www.artevod.com/malesenperil
Extract: http://www.artevod.com/bandeAnnoncePlay ... cheId=2165
minisite: http://www.arte.tv/fr/2281146.html
4 other excerpts: http://www.arte.tv/fr/Males-en-peril/2293846.html
Probably tomorrow on Arte + 7 ...
ps: ladies I'm sure this forum is home to very good young and old alpha male intelligent, cultivated, having a healthy life and therefore not polluted and would be delighted to make some donations! Notice to the amateurs !! : Cheesy:
