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Secretary of Health and Human Services robert f kennedy jr A press event at the White House on Thursday was used to make the extraordinary claim that American teenagers are now less Sperm and testosterone compared to 65-year-old men.
Kennedy joins the President donald trump In the Oval Office for a campaign meeting A new deal offering discounts on fertility drugs For couples trying to have children, when he was invited to say a few words at a lecture.
“Thank you, Mr. President,” the secretary said, before launching into a bizarre address on America. fertility rateAbout which he said that it is declining and it is a threat to national security.
He declared, “When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5 percent.” “Today, it’s 1.6 percent. The replacement rate, in other words the fertility you need to keep your population the same, is 2.1 percent. We’re below replacement right now.
“This is a national security threat to our country and we know why this is happening, and President Trump is addressing the root causes through his MHA [Make America Healthy Again] “An agenda to reduce exposure to endocrine disruptors, fertility-reducing chemicals.”
He added: “Today, the sperm count in the average teenager in this country is 50 percent, the testosterone in a 65-year-old is 50 percent. Our girls are reaching puberty six years earlier, and that’s bad, but our parents are also not having children.
“Parents who want to have kids don’t have that access. I have seven kids. I feel like God blessed me with that and I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I didn’t have that blessing.”
It is known that sperm count declines with age, meaning that a teenage boy is likely to have a much higher sperm count than a man in his late sixties, according to experts.
That said, data on sperm counts of young men is scarce.
“This is a very controversial issue in our field, and for every paper that you think suggests a decline and raises alarm for this issue, there’s another paper that says the numbers are not changing, and there’s no cause for concern,” says Dr. Scott Lundy, a reproductive urologist at the Cleveland Clinic. told NBC News in this summer.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon cited two papers from 2017 and 2022 to support Kennedy’s claims and told NBC, “A growing body of peer-reviewed research shows significant declines in sperm counts over the past decades, and pretending this isn’t a serious trend is irresponsible. The data is real, the risks are high, and ignoring it won’t make it go away.”
Virility remains a major concern of the manosphere, with wellness influencers and “pro-natalists” commonly raging over its perceived degradation on podcasts and social media. Despite little real consensus on the severity of the problem, they often recommend radical lifestyle changes to deal with it.
This is nothing new for Kennedy, an environmental lawyer by profession. He Made similar comments for fox news host jesse waters During a conversation in April about additives in foods marketed to children, the age of the hypothetical sexagenarian in this case was 68, not 65.
An incredulous Waters responded: “Wait, wait, … wait, an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man?”
The secretary replied, “That’s correct, because testosterone levels are down 50 percent from historical levels.” “And that’s a problem and it’s an existential problem.”
Kennedy wasn’t the only official to make the strange claim on Thursday’s program.
Medicare Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz It was predicted that the President’s IVF treatment reforms would result in “a lot of Trump babies” after several years of “fewer babies” in the US.
Oz said, “The fundamental creative force in society is about having children.”