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How does reducing sperm by 50% affect chance to have kids? If it can be compensated by having 2 times as many attempts, then it won't be a major problem for sta
by golergka 3y ago
How does reducing sperm by 50% affect chance to have kids? If it can be compensated by having 2 times as many attempts, then it won't be a major problem for stable families trying for a kid in most cases. Seems like a good tradeoff for having modern agriculture — being able to feed whole 8 billion of people with just about 1% of them working on food production is a true modern marvel.
- malfist 3y agoI am not an expert on this so if someone informed replies disregard me. But from what I understand, reduced sperm counts have very little impact on reproduction until it falls under a certain threshold. It probably depends on the individual baseline if a 50% reduction is enough to cause problems or not
- XorNot 3y agoThat's completely correct. The average ranges from 40 million per mL to 300 million per mL[1]. Actual infertility has to have quite a few markers before it's likely - according to this[2] one measure was a count lower then 13.5 million/mL, motility less then 32 percent and less then 9 percent normal morphology. Cutting a low sperm count by 50%, but with no degradation of motility or morphology for example, is quite likely not to make you infertile at all (remembering too: people who don't have trouble conceiving don't seek sperm analysis). [1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323736#outlook https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323736#outlook [2] https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2002/0315/p1189.html https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2002/0315/p1189.html