Article on sperm count link to sex ratio?

[rainbowflower]

I'm sure there are plenty around but I haven't been able to find any.... please can someone post a link?

[rainbowflower]

Actually nevermind, I tried Google instead of Google Scholar and found one: http://www.renalandurologynews.com/low-sperm-count-may-decrease-likelihood-of-siring-a-son/article/214907/
which I guess means that pH and jump&dump might not have the same effect on lowering the sperm count for swaying as it would "from the source"?

[rainbowflower]

although this study seems to disprove it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11056134

[love being a mummy]

interesting

[happyheart]

Interesting! I am looking forward to reading these! My doctor had my DH tested and he was at 884 million!! I read some where that 20 million was the average.

Thanks for posting!

[LolaInLove]

Well, I was glad to read the one disproving that low sperm equals boys, at least for me! My DH is definitely in the "subfertile" category (he is not the father of my girls, he is my 2nd husband). By the way, congrats, HAPPYHEART!

[atomic sagebrush]

It's not that I have a million studies that have been done that show specifically that low sperm count = girls, its that men who have low sperm count for MANY completely unrelated reasons, DO have more girls, despite the fact that they have equal numbers of X and Y sperm (because all men do). These studies DO exist by the dozens and I don't have time to post them but if you Google a few diff. word combos you'll find them. Marathon runners, bikers, pesticide applicators, deep sea divers, fighter pilots, painters, welders, men exposed to several diff. chemicals, smokers, and men with varicocele all have lower sperm count and all have more daughters than statistically expected.

Unfortunately very few studies are done on gender ratio (politically incorrect) and so we have to extrapolate some of this from the studies we do have.

[atomic sagebrush]

Actually nevermind, I tried Google instead of Google Scholar and found one: Low Sperm Count May Decrease Likelihood of Siring a Son - Renal and Urology News (http://www.renalandurologynews.com/low-sperm-count-may-decrease-likelihood-of-siring-a-son/article/214907/)
which I guess means that pH and jump&dump might not have the same effect on lowering the sperm count for swaying as it would "from the source"?

The difference between 51 and 50% is to my mind, not statistically significant. Not sure I buy this study.

[atomic sagebrush]

although this study seems to disprove it: Offspring sex ratio of subfertile men and men wit... [Hum Reprod. 2000] - PubMed - NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11056134)

Also, several people back on IG had their husband's sperm "tested" and to my knowledge none of them ever had any other than 50-50.