If you are a Western male in the 21st century, there is a 52% chance you are shooting blanks. Even if you’re not, you are likely going to have a much harder time successfully having your first baby than your father or grandfather did. This is because male fertility is falling fast across the Western hemisphere.
While you might not be completely infertile, there is a 1 in 2 likelihood that your sperm is far from sperm bank quality. This is something that apparently baffles the modern medical community. However, if you want to know why you aren’t the stud between the sheets that you should be, all you need to do is keep on reading.
Falling Male Fertility & The Washing Away of Modern Masculinity
If you regularly doom-scroll through the latest repetitive mess offered by mainstream media, you likely already know that sinister plastic chemicals like Bisphenol A (BPA) are one possible cause of falling male fertility. However, since the 1970s, when Western sperm rates began going from a healthy splat to a depressing drip, Western men have also been lathering themselves daily in all kinds of sperm-toxic chemicals. Chief among these is Polyethylene Glycol (PEG).
Let’s Get Dirty
Remember Fight Club? If there is one takeaway from David Fincher’s 1999 masterwork, it’s just how easy it is to make soap. The basic ingredients are caustic soda and animal fat. In fact, from prehistory to the present, soap was usually made using just a mixture of ash, fat, and a dash of perfume. That was until the 1930s, when the West saw an explosion in the male and female cosmetic and personal care market.
It might seem strange to imagine a time in human history when there weren’t at least two or three aisles in your local supermarket solely stocking cosmetics. However, shampoo didn’t come onto the human bathing scene until as recently as 1927. In fact, prior to the 1930s, soap recipes hadn’t seen a major change in centuries.
When soap recipes did start to modernize and personal care became the booming industry it is today, major soap and cosmetics manufacturers naturally looked for ways to cut production costs while increasing profits. One easy way to do this was by adding a well-known industrial degreaser called Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) into, well… everything.
Falling Male Fertility & Polyethylene Glycol Everywhere
Take a closer look at what you are buying whenever it is next time to replenish your personal care essentials, and you will find Polyethylene Glycol and other glycol ethers everywhere. PEG and derivative glycols are, after all, in most body washes, shampoos, toothpastes, moisturizers… You name it, PEG is in it.
Polyethylene Glycol is also particularly effective at facilitating the absorption of other agents into the dermis. This means that PEG gets into the dermis too, where over time it bio-accumulates.
Due to the pervasiveness of PEG, it is, of course, essential for the cosmetics industry to prove that Polyethylene Glycol is safe. However, in animal studies, high or prolonged exposure to PEG has been proven to reduce sperm counts, sperm motility, and overall sperm health. Humans, as a lucky wild card, suposedly don’t suffer the same effects, so you are fine if you believe the marketing and selective study outcomes. The whole falling male fertility crisis in all countries which do use PEG in all soap, as opposed to those that don’t is probably just because of coincidence, global warming, evil faries, or Donald Trump or something.
Thankfuĺly, there is good news.
Reducing PEG Exposure Induces Increased Spermatogenesis
The modern male is almost as fastidious about his appearance as the teenage girl next door. Call it metrosexuality, or just not being coal miners anymore, most modern males have just as much an obsession with skin cleansers, body washes, hair dye, moisturizers, and sometimes even a daring dash of eyeliner, as Cindy Lauper. However, the modern fountain of youth promised by most cosmetics is likely also why you aren’t populating the next generation as well as Granddad once did.
Thankfuĺly, it doesn’t have to be this way.
Many of the same studies that show a decrease in spermatogenesis in animals given high exposure to PEG, also show that spermatogenesis increases when PEG exposure ceases. There are also drugs which, albeit not naturally, can increase sperm production in males to offset the effects of PEG exposure.
Stop Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
If you are a modern male bathing every day in PEG or PEG derivatives, you are likely not nearly as potent a propagator of the species as you were naturally meant to be. Thankfully, by simply replacing modern PEG-loaded cosmetics with natural soaps and self-care essentials, you can get your natural fertility mojo back. It’s simply a matter of being aware of what you are really bathing in.
As for drugs that can increase spermatogenesis, that’s a topic for another conversation. Until then, lay off the Nivea for Men and stay tuned in to The Crypto Con, to really learn how to take care of what’s in your ball sack.