Hey everybody, welcome back to the Miraculous Momma's podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and I'm joined here with my husband Vito.

Hello.

And we believe in empowering women through storytelling and education. And we're so glad that you guys are listening today.

Today we have an interview with Globs of Chenko from Dancing with the Stars. But before then, Vito and I are going to do a little update on pregnancy, father's day, and what's going on in our lives.

But before we dive into that, I've been talking about sperm health on hair, babe.

And how important it is.

I'm going to do your podcast, babe. I know I'm learning alcohol is not good abuse of marijuana is not good, but some marijuana might be good.

Yeah, conflicting information on it.

So a super interesting study came out of China a few years ago. And they took a sample among over 5,000 sperm bank donors.

And they found evidence suggesting that there's been huge decreases in semen volume sperm concentration and motility and total sperm count between 2008 and 2014.

And in this study, you guys can find out on the NCBI. I will link it in the show notes.

They basically say the decline of sperm quality amongst sperm bank donors in the study is alarming and should receive great attention.

That is alarming. Do they have any culprits?

I mean, I haven't seen much since then, but they said that there's there needs to be long term observation should be conducted to confirm the present results and determine the potential causes of the decline in the semen quality.

So I like all of this information coming out because I feel like the whole health industry focuses on women.

Like not just when it comes to fertility, when it comes to health in general, like women are the easy sell, right? Like try this new fad diet.

And then you do this like how to get abs for summer and in 30 days, it's like, yeah, right. Nobody's ever got abs in 30 days ever from doing 50 crunches a day like shape magazine says, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

So all of this information coming out is super interesting to me because over the last 80 years sperm quality has decreased by 60%.

So there's something going on and I know that there's people researching and looking into it. But to me, I just find that really fascinating because I feel like the health industry targets women and focuses on women.

And now it's starting to show up in sperm.

Yeah. Well, I think you're probably always showed up in sperm, but now they're bringing more attention to it probably right?

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