Growing infertility has recently entered the battle of demographers, shaking up the projections of major authorities.
Humans make their babies later and later, which decreases their natural fertility but above all gives their organism time to be exposed to all the environmental factors known to affect the ability to reproduce.
The result: a decline in fertility that has led some experts to fear a collapse in the world's population within a hundred years!
Treatments are not enough to stem the problem, and while research offers solutions for the future, only prevention could achieve short-term results.
Human reproduction actually remains a great mystery.
The mechanics - an ovum seeks out a sperm every month to form an embryo that will nest in a uterus for the nine months needed to produce a new human - is generally known.
But the reasons for the success - or failure - of each…
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