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Infertility Crisis: The Shocking 2050 Prediction | Dr. Rahi Victory DSH #1279
Sat, 29 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the infertility crisis predicted for 2050?
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, based off the stats you just shared with me, we really need to talk about this now.
For sure, yeah, infertility is rapidly growing.
Yeah, so by 2050, you said 50% of countries won't be able to meet up with...
Their replacement rate for the population. Yeah, that's correct. And by 2100, they estimate 97% if we're on the same trajectory. So it's a very growing concern and it's going to have a real social, environmental, health impact, economic impact, really like a massive tidal wave of a problem.
This is going to impact us, our kids, our grandkids. For sure. Scary stuff. Yeah. And it seems like it's just a lot of contributing factors, not just one thing, right?
Yeah, there are many. I mean, there's age, there's the environment, there's all the exposures. There's other problems with diseases that are growing, endometriosis. Men's health is rapidly declining. We have a huge decrease in sperm performance. So all these things are contributing together and it's really becoming a problem.
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Chapter 2: How does men's health impact pregnancy outcomes?
How much does the men's health impact the health of the baby? Yeah.
Huge, huge. So the quality of the sperm can impact everything from the health of the baby to miscarriage rates. There's a test we do called sperm DNA fragmentation testing. That test measures the amount of damage to the DNA in the sperm. And for the guys that have a high amount of damage, it's up to a 12-fold increase. So 1,200% increase in the risk of having a miscarriage. Holy crap.
Yeah, placentas, things like preeclampsia, the health of the baby later on, all of those are very significantly impacted by men's health. A great example that I use on a lot of my patients is if they're smoking, we need to get them to quit smoking. And it's hard for a lot of guys.
So one thing I'll frequently tell them is your baby has a higher chance of having heart disease and cancer, even if it's only the dad that is smoking at the time the baby's made. That's scary. Yeah, because you're imprinting that stuff into the epigenetics of the sperm DNA.
Yeah, this is all new to me because when I was growing up, I always thought it was the woman's health that mattered. I never knew it was both. 50-50. So it's 50-50. Oh, yeah. Wow, that's crazy because I know a few women that have had kids with different fathers. Sure. And some of them have had much harder pregnancies.
Yeah, exactly. So you'll find some women that sail through one pregnancy and have no problem, and then they'll have another pregnancy with a different partner and they're complicated.
And it's like a night and day difference. Yeah. So it has to be on the male at that point. Yeah.
A lot of it will be. I mean, every pregnancy is different, but a lot of it will fall back on the health of the male and their habits and what they're doing. There was a really good post.
I don't remember who it was from on social media recently where this guy was talking about if women have to go through nine months of taking care of their bodies and their health and attending to their well-being because they're pregnant, why shouldn't guys get their sperm optimized? And it got millions of views. And I was like, yeah, this guy hit it right on the head, right?
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Chapter 3: What lifestyle changes can optimize male fertility?
What are some ways to optimize for males?
So automatically, no smoking, no drinking, no drug use. And that includes vaping, marijuana, all that stuff. So vaping shows up in the sperm? Oh, it's all terrible for sperm. It's a train wreck. Alcohol is a cellular toxin, increases the number of abnormal sperm by 83%. So all of those things are huge negatives.
Smoking is terrible, slows down the sperm, reduces the number that are there, the number that are normal. Vaping does the same thing. And marijuana has side effects as well. So that's the first one. Second one, you got to have sex a lot. So it's every day or every other day nonstop. Holy crap. Right, which is sometimes a challenge.
I mean, some people's schedules don't allow it or they kind of get sick of each other after. Yeah, every day it's like, sex is great and all that. Every day. Every day is a lot, right? So we need the guys to ejaculate frequently. Vitamins do make a difference. That's been shown over and over again. So I don't promote one brand over another because I don't believe in that.
But I think taking vitamins and watching your overall well-being, your diet, your exercise, stuff like that's really important. And then lastly, cold therapy. So avoiding cell phone exposure. A lot of guys have their cell phone in their pocket.
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Chapter 4: What are the impacts of EMF and heat on sperm health?
I can't say that I've seen chronic use. I mean, in the research, it's there for sure. But I haven't seen it because where we are in Canada, people aren't chronically in a sauna or a hot tub. But there's no question that the science is like unequivocal. Heat is bad and cold is good. Yeah. I mean, sperm whales live in the Arctic, right? Those guys are producing tons of sperm for sure.
There's a reason for that.
I never even connected a dot on that one. Yeah. So cold plunging might be actually good for this. It's amazing. Wow. Yeah. I've always hated it, but if it helps have kids, I mean. It can be very beneficial.
Yeah. For your overall wellbeing and for sperm performance for sure. Yeah, it's a little bit short because most people are in there for like a minute or two. But if you're sitting on frozen peas, that's a lot easier to tolerate. That's why we tell guys to do that. There's actually underwear you can buy on Amazon that has like a pocket for an ice pack on either side. Wow.
So for guys that work in like really hot jobs where they're in a suit or they're in a tank or something like that and they can't control the heat, we actually tell them to use those to keep their testes cool.
Interesting. Have you seen the studies on the polyester underwear? I have not. So polyester, I guess there's like microplastics in there or something. So that's getting in people's balls. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. They're doing a lot of tests on balls and there's a lot of plastic in them basically.
For sure. I mean, I know that the work on tea bags and that tea bags contain billions of plastic particles. So you do have to be careful with some of those plastic confused tea bags because those can do the damage.
I stopped drinking those actually when I saw that. Yeah. And I love tea. Yeah. But that's concerning.
Yeah. Oh yeah. You don't want plastic.
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Chapter 5: How do vitamins affect sperm quality?
Yeah, you got to tell that to Brian Johnson, man. Yeah, for sure. Because I'm like, what, 50 or 100? Oh, yeah, it's not good for you when you're on that, man. Yeah, that's a lot. But his results say otherwise, which is crazy.
Well, I mean, I think it depends on what you're looking at as well, right? So if you're in an environment where you're overexposed to toxic medications or substances or your environment, you may need more. If you're just trying to stay healthy, great. If you are trying to produce a baby, you can overdo it.
That's good to know. The low testosterone stuff, you see that being a big factor in all this infertility issue?
It definitely can be. So we are seeing a decline in testosterone globally, and that's probably a big reason that the sperm quality is declining. So with that, we are looking at how to correct that, obviously. I think a lot of that is environmental and exposures. But there is no question that correcting that's going to make a big, big difference.
Right now, we don't have great ways to correct it other than telling them to be more healthy, health conscious, follow the right diet, lose weight, stay in shape, exercise, that kind of thing. There are medications we use for it, but obviously we don't want to hit everybody with meds as a solution. The TRT, yeah. Well, you can't take testosterone. Oh, you can't? No.
So if your testosterone is low and you have sperm production problems or you're trying to produce a baby, it's basically male birth control. It'll stop you from making sperm. Really? Yeah, because your brain stops sending the signal to your testicles to produce sperm and then you stop making sperm. So your testosterone normalizes, but you're totally in.
Wow, so you're shooting blanks. Totally blank. Holy crap. Yeah. Yeah, blanks are scary, man. You know? Yeah, they are. Yeah. Have you seen the rate of miscarriages go up too?
It has. I mean, it's pretty steady in terms of being related to age. So a woman's age and a little bit the man's age has the biggest role in the risk of miscarriage because 80% of miscarriages are caused by genetic abnormalities in the embryo. So we see that with an increasing age in the woman. But there's no question that, again, there's environmental stuff. There's low vitamins.
There's DNA damage. Again, with the guy's sperm quality tanking globally, we definitely are seeing more miscarriages because they're a big factor in that.
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Chapter 6: What are the trends and ethical concerns in IVF and genetic selection?
Dude, that's sad as a man, because you want to give life, you know, you want to be, leave a legacy. Yeah, you want to pass on your genes, right?
And having kids is awesome. I mean, I got three and I adore each and every one of them. So yeah, I mean, it's hugely important, but people are being led astray, all the misinformation out there, right?
Well, it's sad that a lot of them don't even know that this is a side effect. Right. They're just taking it to look better, look healthier, and they don't know they might be giving up the future to have kids.
Yeah. And I think some of that falls on the shoulders of the pharma. I think some of that falls on the shoulders of the doctors, right? We get presented with options for treatment, but unless you ask, what are the side effects of this? If you don't know, how are you going to pass that knowledge on to your patients? So it behooves us as physicians to be knowledgeable.
Sometimes we are, sometimes they're not. There'll always be human error in any space. Yeah. Yeah. Are you seeing any side effects from birth control on fertility?
Um, not generally speaking. So it depends on the birth control. If you're on just the pill, um, there's no evidence that it in any way compromises fertility. In fact, in some ways for certain groups of women, like those with endometriosis, they can actually do better because it'll keep the endo kind of quiet.
If you're on something like Depo-Provera, which is an injectable progesterone, which lasts like three months per shot, that stuff can stay in you for anywhere from 12 to 18 months. Holy crap. So in those situations, you can compromise your fertility because you got to wait a really long time before you're restoring your normal function.
Yeah. Is it pretty common in Canada, birth control?
Oh, yeah. Common everywhere these days.
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Chapter 7: How is private equity influencing the infertility treatment market?
It's a lot of women. I just wonder like what the side effects of birth control are, you know?
Well, there are serious side effects that you need to be careful of. So... The main one is the risk of having a blood clot in your legs. Pieces of those can break off and go to your lung. That can be fatal. And a small percentage of the population actually carries genes that predispose them already to that happening. So when you have the two of them together, you can really cause some damage.
There can be things like headaches. A small percentage of women that get migraines can actually have a stroke. And if you're smoking and you're older and you're on birth control, that's contraindicated because it's actually a risk for heart attack. Wow. So once you're over 35, if you're a smoker, your birth control pill days are done. You can't do it.
How much misinformation are you seeing about fertility on social media?
Oh, God.
Yeah. You probably get sent videos all the time.
Yeah, people send me stuff all the time. The amount of misinformation out there is enormous. So there was just a recent study, I don't know if you saw it, where they said 70% of medical sort of I shouldn't say propaganda, posts, had misinformation in them on social media, 70%.
And a large number of those were from influencers or people driving the narrative that were actually selling some kind of product, right? So I recently had a post out there about vaccination during pregnancy. Somehow it got sidelined into vitamin K, which is necessary for babies at birth. And that's because babies are vitamin K deficient and they can't clot properly.
So then I got everybody coming out saying, no, you don't need it. And I was like, well, no, actually the babies need it. Like they're going to have a stroke. And everybody's coming out with all their own ideas saying, no, it's harmful. And there's not one shred of evidence that it's harmful. So we get that on both sides.
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