Women's bodies were considered the main like reproductive vessels. This trend of doctors and researchers looking for sources of infertility in female bodies, it continued for decades. Rachel says that science just hasn't spent enough time or money studying sperm to its relationship to fertility. But she also found a second potential culprit: i v f is definitely not some sort of magic cural for fertility.
In 2017, researchers published an explosive finding: Sperm counts may be declining in some countries around the world. Media outlets began worrying about a potential Spermageddon, but other researchers have pumped the brakes. Because scientists know surprisingly little about sperm.
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