Infertility Levels Rising
People who are dealing with infertility at the moment will know that you wouldn’t want to wish infertility on your worst enemy – but there are people who see rising infertility as positive news for an already overpopulated planet. Because individualswith impaired fertility are breeding (apologies for the crass nature of the term), their offspring are susceptible to also suffering with fertility problems. If it were left up to nature, those who had problems conceiving wouldn’t have babies, and those with fewer fertility difficulties would have more children, thus increasing fertility levels in general. And of course this only concerns fertility problems that are passed on from parent to child. Problems as a result of smoking or other habits are clearly not genetic. To be fair, the fact that women are having babies later in life, combined with the prevalence of STDs, will almost certainly have a greater effect on fertility than IVF treatments.
You can also address infertility levels in terms of individuals, rather than about the infertility levels of society as a whole. For example, an individual woman’s fertility levels could be affected by a very stressful lifestyle because of the influence stress has on hormones.
According to some guys in Utah, a woman’s body shape can tell you something about her level of fertility. Do you ever hear a woman complaining about her ‘childbearing hips’? Tell her she’s lucky to have those hips – she’s statistically less likely to have to deal with infertility. There are a number of links between wide-hips and decreased likelihood of infertility. Carrying your weight around your middle rather than around your hips is associated with hormone problems and it seems that, men are more attracted to women with curvier forms as compared to a more straight-up-and-down build. see the facts for yourself in the Current Anthropology journal (Decemeber 2008) if you’re not persuaded.
Let me present you with a list of symptoms before we talk about the connections between stress and infertility: insecurity, depression, fatigue, insomnia, frigidity or impotence, emotional withdrawal & concentration problems. Chronic stress can trigger all of these symptoms. Please let me know how any person suffering with these symptoms every day could possibly have a healthy sex life. Moreover, excessivestress can cause your body to stop releasing eggs. I don’t know about you, but it seems quite clear to me that infertility levels are certainly affected by stress levels.
There are so many things that influence infertility levels at every level of society. If you are the one struggling to conceive this probably doesn’t mean much to you but just remember that if infertility levels are rising then there will be more money and more research going in to treating it, which can only be good news for couples who are desperate to have babies of their own.
Here is more information on Infertility Statistics. Here is a website with a free mini-course dedicated to Infertility.
Discussion Area - Leave a Comment