In Fertility we look at what’s happening in a country where infertility is curiously gaining shelf space in a public health system that’s failing to cope with ill-health.
Back in 2017 a New Zealand Government struggling to find funding for cancer, heart disease, education and hip surgery was promising to fund more IVF treatments for infertile couples. Why?
Because, as we examine in Chapter 11 of Just Cause and Effect: Selenium Deficiency in New Zealand, infertility is a thing affecting more and more people. In 2017 that year the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reported on analysis of results from 185 studies around the world, and concluded sperm concentration had dropped by nearly 60 percent between since 1979 – to levels that were – in Western Countries – below the threshold for fertility.
And, the more recent studies showed, it is still dropping.
Selenium is recognised as essential for reproduction, it is vital for gestation and lactation in females and plays a crucial role in male fertility.
Remember if you only read one book this year, Just Cause and Effect: Selenium Deficiency in New Zealand this should be it. Available from Write Answers, your local book store (if it’s good), Amazon Kindle in E-reader format or borrow it from your local library. But maybe you’re just up for this one chapter – that’s all good too. Drop us a line and we’ll email you a free pdf.
