Sperm Count Is Falling In France, And Globally, Too, Study Says
Human Sperm Cells Wikimedia CommonsA new study tracked 26,000 French men from 1989 to 2005 and discovered that sperm count dropped by one third. (With some reservations from other scientists.) A biggest-of-its-kind study suggests that sperm counts are falling. By a lot. Researchers studied French men from 1989 to 2005, measuring their sperm counts regularly, and found that counts fell about one third in that 16-year period, from 74 million per milliliter to about 50 million. A steady yearly decrease of about 2 percent took it that low. For the study, out today in the journal Human Reproduction, researchers used a database of 126 fertility clinics in France, then took that data and narrowed it down to 26,600 samples from men unlikely to have existing infertility problems. Along with a major dip in sperm count, the study also found an increase in the amount of misshapen sperm (i.e. bad swimmers)...