AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH ARTICLES
The Zardoz Effect: The Epidemic of Male
Infertility
By: William Wong ND, PhD, Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame
Remember the 1974 Sean Connery movie where he was the last fertile man on
earth? Zardoz. Well art seems to predate and predict
reality. Things may just come to something close to that.
Birth rates across Western Europe are the lowest ever seen. The
numbers of babies being born is not as great as the number of people dieing.
(1,2,3). France and Spain have active campaigns to increase the
number of babies being made! (Any volunteers to go help out)?
Africa, for the first time in memory, is also in the negative numbers in terms
of births, with the number of children being born (never mind surviving to
adulthood) not coming close to number of people lost to disease, famine,
tribal genocide and war. Here in the States the main thing keeping
our birth rate up is illegal immigration!
Worldwide, the fertility of both men and women is declining but things seem
to be worse for the men! In 1960 a good sperm count was considered to be
120 million sperm per milliliter of seminal fluid. Anything lower than
that and a man was considered to be only marginally fertile. These days,
things have become so bad that a man is considered fertile if he has only 20
million sperm per milliliter of ejaculate! What happened?
Xenoestrogens happened. Since WW 2, mankind has filled the world and
himself with estrogen like substances. Pesticides, synthetic
fertilizers, petrochemical fumes, the esters that plastics give off when
heated, and the worst offender of all in the estrogen world – soy. I
won't rehash my litany against soy, you'll have to read about it's many ill
effects on my website (Soy the Poison Seed), at www.westonaprice.org,
and www.soyonlineservice.co.nz.
In both men and women high estrogen creates infertility. That's why
estrogen is used in birth control pills. The synthetic progesterone used
in other birth control pills have been molecularly modified to act like
estrogens, which is why instead of increasing fertility the way real (natural)
progesterone does the prescription drug, progesterone, decreases fertility and
if used during pregnancy can create birth defects and mutation.
In men, estrogen decreases testosterone levels and sperm count! Read
on the websites cited, about what happened to the rabbit industry in New
Zealand where the bunnies were fed soy feed. They stopped reproducing
and the industry crashed. How can anything stop a rabbit, from
reproducing?! Isoflavones (estrogen) can. Before you bright light
vegetarians out there tell me that Asians eat mainly soy and have great
birthrates, the eating soy part is not true among those with high birth rates!
The average Chinese eats 5 to 15 ml (one to three TEASPONS) of soy products
daily mainly in soy sauce. It is widely known throughout Asia that when
a woman does not want to have sexual relations with her husband any more, she
feeds him more and more tofu! Monks in monasteries needing to be
celibate are urged to eat more tofu and soy products. In Asia, it is
common knowledge that soy reduces sexual urge and ability. The
propaganda and contrived studies showing that soy is such a fantastic food
arises from the huge agribusiness firms that grow most of the world’s
soybeans, Monsanto and Archer Daniel Midland.
Compare China with its relatively low soy consumption and high birth rate
with Japan and its considerably higher soy consumption and their low birth
rate. Japanese fertility has dropped so precipitously that the number of
in vitro fertilizations has skyrocketed topping 100,000! Of the 100,189
in vitro births in Japan, 55,688 were normal in vitro fertilizations, 13,316
involved use of frozen pre-fertilized eggs and 31,185 fertilizations were done
with the micro fertilization technique where sperm from a relatively infertile
man with inactive sperm is injected into the egg using a microscopic needle.
(4).
On the whole Americans and Europeans consume much more soy daily than their
Chinese brothers. Soy being the cheep fodder it is, Africa is not far
behind the First World in its soy consumption. Consider this, every
glass of soy milk contains the equivalent of 1 birth control pills worth of
estrogen and based on body weight, an infant exclusively fed soy formula
received the estrogen equivalent of at least 5 birth control pills per day!
(6) Wonder why 6 to 8 year old girls are reaching menstruation? Wonder
no more!
These are some of the reasons why Dr. Dorris Rapp MD one of the worlds
leading Pediatric Allergists and Environmental Physicians says that by 2045
only 21% of the men on the entire planet will be fertile! (5).
Shades of Zardoz!!! Only the members of wacko environmental and animal
rights groups’ hell bent on returning the planet to the wild, would applaud
that finding. The rest of us need to worry about the continuation of the
human race!
The second thing putting humans on the endangered species list is the low
fat / low cholesterol fad. Let's put things simply, fats are needed to
create hormones. Hormones are sterols whittled down from cholesterol
molecules. Anyone with a total cholesterol count under 180 does not have
enough cholesterol to make hormones with. Period. Cholesterol is
also used to maintain brain size (the brain is 60 to 70% cholesterol),
maintain skin suppleness and pad the internal organs. This is the reason
why strict vegetarians look 10 to 20 years older than their actual age, no
sexual hormones. That's why patients on cholesterol lowering medicines
with low total cholesterol counts have no libido! The sexual hormones of
Progesterone and Testosterone are the fountains of youth and strength.
Thyroid hormone is the fountain of energy. The only vegetarians who
don't exhibit severe aging and loss of sex drive are the ones who do as the
Hindus in India do, eat a good deal of eggs and drink milk.
What can be done to overcome low sperm count? Glad
you asked:
We can't avoid exposure to all estraces; it's well nigh impossible even if
you take refuge in caves and wilderness areas of the West. So we have to
stop their physiological effect on us. DiIndoleMethane (DIM) 200 to 400 mg per
day is the first tool. DIM is from cabbage and will block the estrogen
receptors in the body keeping the hormone from becoming active, it also helps
to eliminate the estrogen from the body.
Maca is our second tool, it has DIM in it as well and nutrients that seem
to increase libido and fertility. Mammals are not supposed to be able to
reproduce in altitudes above 12,000 feet. When the Spanish Conquistadors
got to the tops of the Andes Mountains they noticed their livestock showed no
interest in sex and did not reproduce, while they were not their usual randy
selves in cavorting with the local women folk. They asked the local
medicine men what was up and got the answer that the situation they were in
was prevented in the natives by eating the sweet potato like tuber. The
Indians ate liberally of it daily and fed it to their animals. Once the
Spanish started using the Maca and feeding it to their livestock, they and
their animals came back on line and were their old reproductive selves again.
Two to three teaspoons (10 to 15 grams) of Maca are needed daily by both men
and women seeking to be fertile.
Now to the actual making of sperm. Studies in male infertility,
mostly done in Central Europe confirm that the ingestion of high doses of
certain amino acids greatly increases not only the number but also the quality
of sperm. TriMethylGlycine (TMG), DiMethylGlycine (DMG) and Arginine are
three amino acids used. All of these sperm builders also
have the erection enhancing action of creating Nitric Oxide (NO), the blood
gas Viagra seeks to spare. Higher levels of NO not only increase
circulation to the male and female sexual organs but it has been shown the
increased NO also helps feed the brain originated blood. Experiments are
now being conducted feeding early Alzheimer’s patients Viagra.
Relatively high levels of dosing are needed with each of these amino's to
increase sperm counts. 1500 to 3000 mg per day. With TMG and
Arginine this is easily done as the supplements are widely available.
TMG also has the good effect of lowering the markers for vascular inflammation
C–Reactive protein and Homocystine. Pharmaceutical grade DMG is
available for horses to enhance exercise recovery and many humans use this
pure form of the supplement.
Next we need to increase the volume of fluid a man ejaculates. A
fellow can have a good sperm count but if all the little buggers are stuck
together in a viscous (thick) small volume of seminal fluid their chances of
swimming free of the fluid and actually getting to an egg are small.
Pygeum is an African herb that increases the volume of seminal fluid. It
also is very healthy for the prostate. Daily intake should be around 300
mg.
On the subject of seminal fluid production, the anti-Parkinson's, anti-Prolactin
drug Parlodel (Bromocryptine) performs this function admirably. The
anti-Prolactin action is also something many infertile men and women need as
prolactin in both sexes diminishes fertility. Prolactin is the hormone a
woman secretes during breast-feeding it decreases her libido and fertility;
the idea is to make it virtually impossible to become pregnant while still
breast-feeding. Prolactin production in both sexes increases with age
and is a major cause of infertility. Parlodel is widely used in Europe
as an anti-aging or brain-boosting drug. Before your doctor will
prescribe this drug he should do blood work to see if high Prolactin levels
are a problem. Bromocryptine and an anti-estrogen drug are used by
a well-known male pornographic movie star to increase the amount of seminal
fluid he produces for his “money shots”.
Now we must touch on two very needed nutrients. There can be no fertility
without Zinc and Vitamin E. Zinc is the major mineral component of
seminal fluid, it's the reason the stuff is white! The prostate is the
most zinc rich organ in the body and with each ejaculation it looses an amount
of zinc equal to or greater than the Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) of zinc.
We in the western world have very zinc deficient diets. To tally up all
the times you've come and add up the zinc lost and you'll see that unless you
have a very good intake of zinc each day you'll be on the losing side of the
proposition soon. 50 to 100 mg of zinc is needed daily, the older the
man the higher the intake should be.
Vitamin E was found to be essential for sexual function as far back as the
60's with Dr. Thomas Cureton's pioneering studies. Pay no heed to the junk
medical science studies purporting to find Vitamin E is bad. They are trying
to scare folks away from the vitamin because they have a new drug to sell you.
We saw the same happen in the 80's when a tainted batch of tryptophan was
purposely dumped on the US market. Tryptophan was a multi-million dollar
seller and the natural way of reducing depression and helping sleep. Six
weeks after the tryptophan was banned Prozac was released, coincidence?
Don't bet on it! Vitamin E dose should be 400 to 800 IU daily.
Now, for an unusual recommendation: Drink coffee. A research
paper presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting in
San Antonio in 2003 showed that coffee perked up sluggish sperm! Dr.
Euan Paul reported “These findings are very exiting. There has been
growing concern about sperm problems and about lack of fertility in
particular”. Caffeine acts as a stimulant to the dopamine cells of the
brain, helping people to concentrate (dopamine is also essential for
sexuality, no dopamine = no libido), sperm also experienced a boost when a man
drank coffee.
The 40 year long, multi-thousand patient Hawaiian Men’s Health Study also
found that coffee drinkers had improved sexual performance versus the
non-coffee drinkers and what’s more, coffee drinkers rarely got senile
dementia and if they did it came on 10 years after the non-coffee drinkers had
come down with Alzheimer’s! Two to 3 cups a day are enough.
What's to be done about low testosterone? Well since the FDA
and the Congress in their infinite wisdom banned Andro in its
various forms, the only way to really increase testosterone levels is to find
a physician who is into anti-aging and men’s hormone replacement to get
either the natural testosterone injections, gels or implants. Low
testosterone equates to low fertility and low libido it's that simple.
As for increasing the good fats we need to build hormones eat 1 to 2
tablespoons of olive oil daily.
We must remember that sperm can take up to 75 days to be made. Any
sperm-increasing-program should be given 3 to 4 months to fully kick in.
Although in some research, sperm count doubled in 2 weeks using the amino
Arginine. A poor sperm count should be retested every 3 months.
If, after doing most of the parts of this program, sperm count is still low
or of poor quality then deeper seated problems with the testes and adrenals
should be looked into and worked with.
References:
- Fewer.
by Ben Wattenberg, published by American Enterprise Insititute.
- The
Empty Cradle, by Phillip Longman, published by Basic Books.
- The
Economist, Mar.13, 2003, Mar. 25, 2004, Sep.30, 2004.
- Japanese
in vitro fertilization birth top 100,000, Asian Sex Gazette Jan. 28, 2005.
- Is
This You Childs World, by Dorris Rapp MD, published by Bantam, page 501.
- Irvine,
C. et al., “The Potential Adverse Effects of Soybean Phytoestrogens in
Infant Feeding”, New Zealand Medical Journal May 24, 1995, p.318.
For more info on Dr. Wong, go to http://www.totalityofbeing.com
