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Hello everyone and welcome.
I have a very important topic to discuss today
and which is fertility
and also there will be a bonus hypothesis
about sexually transmitted diseases
for those of you who may still be wondering about that
in the context of terrain theory.
So if we look at some of the international organizations,
major news outlets, sources like the United Nations
and Bill Gates, they would have us believe
that we are facing a population crisis
that has consequences against humanity.
Of course, this is within various false narratives
such as public health or global health
as well as climate change.
But if we look at actual data,
we get a very, very different story.
So that's where I'm going to begin today.
So let me bring up my slides.
All right, so I'm going to talk about this
from the perspective of men and women here.
So you're going to see some things
that might be gender specific,
but this is generally speaking about fertility
across the board.
So what we can look at here though
is hormone levels of sex hormones.
We have heard a lot about this crisis of low T
among the male, middle-aged and aging population,
especially, but we can see this really in all age ranges.
And what we have here are graphs that show
the level of total testosterone
and on the x-axis we have people's age
and there are three different data sets.
The top line is the levels from 1987 to 89,
the middle line from 95 to 97
and the bottom line from 02 to 04.
And we can see if we look at each successive line
in time that the starting testosterone levels were lower
and we can do this based on the exact age match
if you look up vertically from the x-axis.
And we can also see that over the lifespan
from mid-40s up until the 80s
that we have declines in total testosterone level,
but also the shape of this curve
has changed from the 80s and 90s to the 2000s
where now rather than testosterone leveling off
at around age originally 60
and then 70 in the subsequent data set,
now instead of leveling off or slightly rising at that point
it continues to go down at a precipitous rate.
So something has occurred
that has brought about this change
in testosterone in men,
which has become a major health issue.
Now we can also look at the male perspective
in terms of sperm count.
Now, sperm count is not the only variable to look at
that tells you about sperm's ability
to conceive and engage in fertility behaviors
because there's also the shape or morphology of the sperm,
the motility or movement of the sperm and other variables.
But if we just look at the count,
we can see here now this data
was regressed into a line
so that you can see the average change
over the time period in a linear fashion,
but it didn't occur exactly that way.
But we can see that when we compare the data
from 50 years ago, 1973,
there was an average of 101 million sperm
per milliliter of seminal fluid.
And now in 2018, in the more recent data,
there is just under half of that number on average.
Now, this paper actually updates a previous paper
that was missing some continents, specifically Africa
and I believe Australia, but I don't quote me on that.
But this data set includes really the entire earth.
And if we look at the blue and red line
at the bottom left panel,
we have basically the change from 1972 to the present
and then another data set that just looks at the past 20 years.
So the blue line looks at 50 years to up to 2018
and the red line just looks at the past 18 years.
And you can see that the rate of decline
is accelerating over time,
just like we saw with the decline
in testosterone levels in the previous data set.
Now, if we look at fertility,
which is defined in this paper
as the number of offspring that a woman has
during her reproductive years in her lifetime,
going back to 1963 up through 2020,
we can see that back in the 60s
that women had around five plus children
on average over their reproductive years,
but now it is down under two and a half, okay?
And this is also global data, okay?
So worldwide data,
if we looked just in Western countries,
we'd see lower numbers.
One interesting thing on this,
back to the study for a second
is that they also looked at the relationship
between the world gross domestic product
and total fertility rate
and found an inverse relationship.
So as countries got wealthier,
their fertility rates declined.
And this is commonly thought of to be explained
as people have more resources,
they decide to have less children,
but I don't think that really explains this finding.
Now, if we look just in the United States,
and this is still several years ago back to 2017,
that we see that the birth rates
or fertility rates was already below replacement levels.
And by a significant margin of 16%,
and I believe that the numbers have only gotten more drastic.
And what this means is that if we continue
at this current birth rate
that our population is going to decline precipitously.
And there is a theoretical point
of a decline of a population
where it basically they become extinct
or it's very, very difficult
to reestablish a significant population.
So this is quite serious
and obviously completely the opposite
of what we're told about overpopulation being problem.
So let's now talk about what could be the cause of this issue.
And we're going to start off talking
about endocrine disrupting chemicals
because these have been shown to interfere
with reproduction in a variety of different types
of scientific experiments.
And we'll give this definition from CAVLOC,
which states an exogenous agent.
That means it comes from outside the body
that interferes with a variety of different aspects,
the synthesis, secretion, transport, binding, action.
Action is kind of generic or elimination
of natural hormones in the body
responsible for the regulation of homeostasis,
which is like equilibrium
and the regulation of developmental processes
like reproduction.
And of course, endocrine refers to the hormones,
which includes the sex hormones
of testosterone, estrogen and progesterone.
So if we look at a category of endocrine disruptors
called Xenoestrogens or foreign estrogenic substances,
these are some proposed mechanisms
that they may interfere with our body's
own response to estrogen.
So they may mimic estrogens,
have a similar chemical structure
that interacts with our body,
fooling our body into thinking
that we are making more estrogen.
It could antagonize estrogens,
so act to counteract estrogens, right?
And this may be important for women's fertility, for example,
altering the synthesis of estrogens
either by inhibiting or upregulating
and modifying estrogen receptor expressions.
So however, our cells receive the estrogen signal
from the hormone itself could be disrupted
by that mechanism.
Now here are some common compounds
that could be Xenoestrogens
or disrupt other endocrine systems.
And these include a variety of compounds
of the class of pesticides and herbicides,
which may be in our food supply
or in environmental exposure in buildings
or agricultural land, et cetera.
I mean, these have been shown
to have specific effects on sperm,
for example, as well as on the estrogen
and testosterone system.
Organophosphates, atrazine,
atrazine is one that you may have heard of,
Alex Jones, at the famous meme of gay frogs
related to atrazine,
where a scientist from Berkeley studied them
on amphibians and found that they had
ambiguous and hermaphroditic genitalia
when exposed to atrazine.
I don't like them putting chemicals in the water
that turn the friggin' frogs gay.
Seriously crap!
And atrazine is unregulated to this day.
It was proposed for regulation by the EPA,
but they refused to regulate it
so you can get exposure to this from the environment.
Then we have plasticizing chemicals like phthalates
and BPA that I'm gonna talk more specifically about,
as well as heavy metals like cadmium, lead, and mercury,
which we could be exposed to
from a variety of sources,
including, for example, drinking water, pharmaceuticals, et cetera.
Now, I also wanna clarify that,
and I've taught this before, obviously,
especially with the power of pine,
that we have two broad categories of toxic substances
that come into our body.
We have water soluble and fat soluble substances,
and that's important because our body processes
these types of foreign toxins in a different way.
The water soluble ones, our body can readily eliminate
and if we eliminate or reduce our exposure to those things,
our body can completely get rid of them
within even hours, sometimes,
depending on the substance or within days.
Fat soluble toxins, on the other hand,
is much more difficult for our body to deal with
and they often become stored in fatty tissue in our body.
And in order to get them out,
it requires a bit more work.
So on this table, you'll see that some of these substances
are water soluble and some are fat soluble.
So if we look specifically at human semen,
and this was known all the way back in the early 80s,
that we found a lot of these toxic substances in men's semen.
So in this study, they found heavy metals
and organochlorine compounds,
which are a class of pesticides in the semen samples,
and there were actually significant correlations
between some of the heavy metals
as well as some of these other substances,
like even DDT, which was taken off the market
decades before this study was still found in human semen.
Now, if we look at a more recent study here,
the LIFE study, which looked specifically
at these persistent organic pollutants,
and these are substances like DDT, for example,
like the PFAS or PFOAS forever chemicals,
which persist in the environment for a very long time
because there's no natural mechanism
to break them down into recyclable units.
So here, we had looked for quite a number
of different substances in semen in this study,
and it was found that the concentration
or levels of these substances showed a lot of associations
with the quality of the semen.
And PDBEs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers,
which are class of flame retardant chemicals,
were particularly associated
with abnormal sperm morphology or shape.
So we're starting to see some direct evidence
that these things are in the semen
and that they are correlated mathematically
with disruptions in the semen quality.
Now, this is another interesting study
and this research looking for microplastics
in biological tissue is somewhat controversial
because there's a criticism
that they're in certain settings,
especially in hospitals,
that there is such a large concentration
of microplastic particles
that they could have contaminated the specimen
rather than the particles preexisting in the specimen.
But I would give some common sense counterpoint
to that argument,
which is that if there are so many microplastics
in the environment, you can't do a study
without contamination,
it would stand to reason that being in that environment
would cause those particles to be taken up by your body
through your body being contaminated in the same way.
Now, the microplastic particles themselves
may not be directly toxic,
although they may cause mechanical obstruction
or disruption of function,
depending on their size,
but they have been shown in a variety of research
to absorb lots of other substances
which could include very toxic substances
like pesticides and heavy metals.
So it could be that these microplastics,
if they are actually in our tissues,
could be sequestering some of these toxic compounds
which can exert toxic effects on our tissues
if they're there for a significant period of time.
Now, here's a further analysis
using a different analytical method
which found plastic additives and forever chemicals,
the same flame retardants that were found in the life study,
surfactants, which are used in a lot of cleaning products
as well as laundry detergent and insecticides.
And they said specifically,
the plastic additives were identified
and they felt that indicated potential health risks.
Okay, so once again,
we find evidence of the same chemicals in semen.
And also, if we look at the female anatomy,
we see the same thing.
So here we have a study that looked at follicular fluid
and this is the fluid in the ovaries
that surrounds the mother's eggs
that are being stored for future menstrual cycles
and that there were lead and cadmium
found in this fluid, so heavy metals.
And then we see this other study looking at PFOAS,
finding those forever chemicals in follicular fluid
and also interestingly,
referencing this other study by DINGRA,
which I've also looked at
where they find PFAS in menstrual fluid.
And this fits with a longstanding hypothesis
that I've had,
which is that women, when they menstruate,
their body takes advantage of that reproductive function
to dump toxins
because the body is getting rid of some fluid and tissue.
So the toxins end up being delivered to the uterus
to leave the body in the menstrual fluid
and this has been actually demonstrated
by analyzing for those chemicals
in the menstrual secretions.
So we see evidence for both men and women
that we are excreting a variety of toxic chemicals
in our sexual fluids.
That's the fluid that's bathing the eggs and the sperm.
And this is an obvious hypothesis
for this fertility reduction
because these compounds were introduced
into the environment at the same time
that the fertility crisis has been occurring.
And unfortunately, the mainstream medical establishment
is not really looking at this very much at all.
They instead prefer to look at it
from the perspective of lifestyle factors,
things like exercise, smoking, alcohol, et cetera.
But those things were actually more prominent in the past
when the fertility rate was higher.
So we can see that that does not explain it,
just like genetics does not explain it
because even if the theory of genetic determination
were valid, there is no sense
that vast mutations affecting fertility could occur
in this very short timeframe of about 50 years.
So what we're really left with is one is the effect
of these toxic substances that are clearly
in our sexual and reproductive fluids and organs.
Now this also provides an obvious hypothesis
for sexually transmitted diseases
because if our sexual secretions that occur
during intercourse or other sexual activities
are full of toxic chemicals
and we are essentially exposing someone else's body to these
and specifically their genital area,
it would make sense that it could be toxic to the tissue.
It could be toxic to the vaginal mucosa,
the labia, the glands, penis, right?
So for example, if we see the shanker of syphilis,
which is an ulcer-rated lesion in the tip of the penis
or in the external genitalia of the woman,
well, isn't it highly likely possibility
that there were toxic substances
that were exposed to that area?
And also during intercourse we have microtrauma
which is increased due to circumcision actually.
The friction is increased
and so there are small micro abrasions
of the sexual tissue that allow for these toxins
to become absorbed essentially into the skin
and then the skin wants to purge them
so it would develop a lesion.
And I think this is a highly likely hypothesis
to explain this observation
that sometimes we have this
alleged sexually transmitted disease.
Now I just wanted to highlight
before we get into the other side of the coin
that some of these compounds,
these endocrine disruptors that may be affecting fertility,
if we stop exposing ourselves to them
that we can get rid of them pretty quickly.
So if we look at PBDEs, right?
Which are the flame retardants I mentioned
that have been shown to have an adverse effect
on semen quality and probably have a similar adverse effect
on the quality of eggs that simply by sweating
we can get rid of these substances, right?
Because they are water soluble.
And the same thing is true with bisphenols and phthalates.
So I would say that any detoxifying regimen
where you're trying to get rid of endocrine disrupting
and xenoestrogen compounds
should include some form of sweating
which could be from saunas,
could be from intense exercise
or even just putting layers of clothes on yourself
to overheat yourself and make you sweat.
And this can be done on even up to a daily basis
but it won't take very long to eliminate
most of those substances from your body
as long as you become aware
of how they're getting in your body in the first place
and you eliminate those sources.
This can be from the flame retardants
they are used often in textiles
to make them flame retardant.
And so check all the textiles
including the furniture that you're exposed to,
clothing, pajamas, et cetera
to see if you're getting exposed that way.
Like for example,
I sometimes have been known to race cars on the track.
And if I wear a race suit,
the race suits are specifically flame retardant suits.
So I try to wear an inner layer
even though this is not recommended
of cotton on my skin
to prevent those chemicals from being absorbed
from the suit.
So you can identify those exposures
and reduce or eliminate those completely.
So clothing obviously is a big one
as well as food containers and packaging
especially if you're gonna microwave food in plastics
that will leech these chemicals into the food.
So now let's talk about some dietary factors
because this is the other edge of the coin now.
I can't say that seed oil toxicity
directly contributes to fertility
but I wanted to point this out
because of obesity and obesity may correlate
with some of these other problems
and also because essentially what's happened here
is that healthy fats have been replaced
with these seed oils and the deficiency in healthy fats
is a big part of this fertility issue.
So this is the consumption of seed oils
where you could see at the turn of the 20th century
they were practically non-existent
because they were used as machine lubricants.
And now over the course of the century
for a variety of economic and other reasons
now we have a huge use of them
and here it breaks them down by specific type of oil.
And this is a curve from the CDC looking at obesity
over the course of the 1960s projected through 2030.
And I thought it was really fascinating
that if you take these two curves
and superimpose them
that you see that they mirror each other quite well.
Now I adjusted the time scale there to match up
and you can see that there is a slight lag
between when the consumption of the seed oils increases
and when the obesity is occurring.
So that suggests but does not prove
a causal relationship that could be looked into further.
Now this is just for your informational purposes
because the linoleic acid is the main constituent
of the seed oils that becomes stored
in our fatty tissue often in the same fraction
as the so-called membrane lipids
and they can have a half-life I believe of up to two years.
So these things really persist in your body
they can't be adequately metabolized as fat
so they get stored.
And it's the linoleic acid that's the major constituent.
So you could see that these oils in red at the top
have the highest levels of linoleic acid
and in the middle, gold and yellow
are intermediate levels.
So we see olive oil there, avocado oil, palm oil
and lard which is pork fat.
And those are acceptable to eat in general
and then the green the best ones at the bottom
and the numbers there reflect what's actually in our bodies.
So we have very small amounts of linoleic acid
in our own body fat right on the order of one to 2%.
And if you look at grass-fed beef tallow
right there at 1%
and so coconut oil in terms of any vegetable
or plant sources of fat would be the best one to use
in cooking and that's really the only one that I recommend.
Now you can buy, for example, mayonnaise prepared
with olive oil or avocado oil
and those are not too bad
but you can make your own mayonnaise at home
using beef tallow for example.
Okay, so let's get into the cholesterol issue
because this more directly speaks to fertility
because our sex hormones are made from cholesterol
as the starting material.
So if our body does not have adequate stores
of cholesterol and saturated fats
we cannot synthesize adequate sex hormones
or vitamin D for that matter
or new cells for that matter.
And new cells are more directly required for survival.
So if our body has a limited supply
of the right fats and cholesterol
it may use them for cellular growth
instead of to support our sexual hormones and fertility.
So this is quite an issue.
Now this is from Johns Hopkins
but it agrees with all the other medical authorities.
They say the normal levels
or optimal levels of cholesterol are
and they want your total cholesterol to be less than 200
and they want your LDL to be less than 100
and the assumption here is that those numbers
would improve your health and longevity.
But if we look here at this graph
and this graph it's from a British Heart Study source
it's listed on the bottom
but it combines a lot of data worldwide
but I'll show you a more limited data set
that has the same exact finding
and this is what's known as a reverse J curve
and on the Y axis is the total cholesterol
and on the Y axis is all cause mortality
for the blue line which is what we're gonna look at
the dark blue line
and the X axis is the total cholesterol level
and this is known as an inverted J curve
and what we see here is that at the nadir of the curve
the lowest point is where we have the lowest mortality
or the highest survival
and then as the curve goes up in both directions
from that nadir point we have increased mortality.
Now what is the nadir point?
It is just over 220 for total cholesterol.
So in other words, best survival and lowest mortality
occurs at a total cholesterol of just over 220.
Now what were the recommendations
that it should be below 200?
So if we go over to the 200 point on the graph
we see that the all cause mortality
is now significantly elevated
and if we go lower than 200
there is a steep slope where the mortality increases.
So each number lower means that we are more likely to die.
Okay, now this also, although it's not reported here
as consequences for fertility
and other types of sexual and reproductive functioning.
Now here is a dataset just looking at adults in Korea
but it's a large number of adults, almost 13 million
and we see essentially the same reverse J curve here
and on the bottom right panel
it looks at men and women separately
but we see here that actually the lowest mortality
is just over 220 and that when we get below 200
we see the increasing hazard ratio is reported here
but that's the hazard of all cause mortality
and when we look separately in men and women
we see that the increase in mortality
is slightly steeper for men.
Now I also want to mention a dataset
looking at LDL cholesterol which was also mentioned
and there it was said that optimally below 100
but this study says in conclusion
we found that low level of LDLs
associated with a higher risk of all cause mortality
and this observed association persisted
after adjusting for potential confounders
so the same finding they represented it differently here
this is a forest plot
and you could see that this vertical line at one
represents no change in all cause mortality
anything to the right of it is more deaths
and to the left of it is less.
Now you could see that as the LDL goes up
from 100 to 129 and going down on this graph
that really there's no change in mortality
if anything it's slightly lower
in the 130 to 160 range
but that interval still crosses the one line
so I would say it's no change
but if we look at the low LDL 70 to 99
it's clearly off the reference line
so we have increased mortality
and if it's below 70
then we're approaching two times the mortality
so once again what the data shows
is that if our cholesterol including LDL is too low
that has the most detrimental effect on our health
as well as our fertility
so in my opinion the two most likely culprits
that have caused this fertility crisis
where we are now below replacement levels
for certain in the Western countries
and possibly globally
that we have won the exposure to a variety of toxins
especially persistent toxins
with endocrine disrupting and xenoestrogenic properties
that often can be stored in our body's tissues
for a long time but clearly are shown to be present
in significant amounts in semen
as well as follicular and menstrual fluid
and then in addition to that
we have a crisis of a deficiency of cholesterol
a nutritional deficiency of saturated fats and cholesterol
that don't allow our bodies to make the things it needs
including the sex hormones
and increase our all cause mortality substantially
so we can see that you have the education
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