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People Cannot BELIEVE What RFK Jr. Just Said About Teenage Boys And Sperm
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WHAT IS LITERALLY EVER HAPPENING?!?!!???!?! I'm a Costa Rican-American writer covering all the impolite dinner party topics — religion, politics, witches, identity, Da Pope, and the internet. It's unclear what he is referring to, but the CDC states that birth rates were at an "all-time high" in 2007, then experienced a decline in the following years. The CDC does not use the word "crisis" to describe this period. A 2022 review found that sperm count "declined appreciably between 1973 and 2018," but it does not specify teenagers. The subject has been a topic of debate in the medical field. Again, it's not clear which studies have led the Secretary of Health and Human Services to this conclusion. A 2016 study in the National Library of Medicine states that "the evidence is scarce on the association between age at puberty and semen quality." Additionally, a 2013 study from Boston University found that male fertility peaks around age 30. The average testosterone level in healthy males aged 60-69 is 196 to 859 ng/dL, according to Harvard University. For males aged 16-17, the Cleveland Clinic says the normal testosterone range is 102 to 1010 ng/dL.
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