Dr. B. B., Docteur en Médecine - Gynécologue ­ Paris © 2006

World Academy of Biomedical Technology (WABT-UATI/ICET/UNESCO) - Colloque de Paris, 08/03/2006 - © Paris-2006

The prevalence of sterility (i.e. the total number of sterile couples recorded per year in relation to the total number of couples of reproductive age) is between 12 and 14% in industrialized countries. This means that 1 couple in 8 will visit their doctor in their reproductive years because they can't conceive.

In health care terms, this translates in France alone into a little more than 60,000 new couples who pay a visit each year to a doctor for primary or secondary sterility problems, without guarantee that they will reach pregnancy.

Few people realize that human beings are one of the less fertile creatures on the planet. Procreation is only possible during a relatively brief period during the menstrual cycle, which reduces the chances of becoming pregnant to only 25% each month.

• In general, the source of infertility is found in the female in 30 to 40% of the cases.
• In the male it is in 10 to 30% of the cases
• It is due to the association of anomalies detected in both partners in 15 to 30% of the cases.
• No cause can be identified in 7 to 10% of the cases.

Among female etiologies, ovulation problems come up first in 1/3 of all cases. Ovulation can be completely absent (anovulation), or it can be present but of poor quality (dysovulation). These problems can be due to disfunctional ovaries, or to the cerebral structures that control their activity.

In 1/4 of all cases, a tubal pathology is clearly shown. The fallopian tubes can be obstructed or altered, for the most part, these anomalies are caused by genital infections. In addition to their role in causing sterility, they can also trigger extrauterine pregnancies.

Endometriosis is the cause in 20% of all cases; typically, the ectopic location of the endometrial mucosa is outside of the uterus (ovaries, tubes or peritoneum cavity)

When it comes to cervical causes, the cervical glar can be inadequately secreted, blocking the passage of spermatozoons, or create antibodies directed against them. These anomalies can be caused by infections or dysfunctional endocervical glands, or result from treatments of the cervix uteri (conization, electrocoagulation).

Aside from any pathology, some factors have a great influence on natural fertility:

• Age plays a more important role for women than for men. As women age, their chances of becoming pregnant diminish sharply, and the number of miscarriages increases. Fertility starts decreasing when they're between 30 and 35; this decrease gets worse around 40, and is practically gone after 45.
• An imbalance in nutrition causing an excess of, or a deficit in, weight have a negative impact on fertility.

The causes of male sterility are usually not linked to sexual trouble and have nothing to do with virility.

In men, many different affections reaching the male reproductive system can have a more or less serious impact on his fertility.

These affections can be hereditary (deferential agenesis, varicocele, cryptorchism) or acquired , whether they are infectious (orchitis), tumors, traumas, adverse drug reaction (medication altering the spermatogenesis), aftermath of surgery of the inguinal area), toxics (x-rays, drug addiction) or psychological (impotency).

Spermograms and spermocytograms are the best indicators of male fecundity. We can establish a degenerancy of the sperm's quality in the course of the last ten years :

A meta-analysis published in 1992 that included 61 studies performed on normal men between 1940 and 1992, observed a significant decrease in the concentration of spermatozoons. It went from 113 million spermatozoons/ml in 1940 to 60 million/ml in 1990. According to the WHO norms, a spermogram is considered normal if it is equal to or superior to 20 million/ml.

This relatively fast evolution suggests there are dynamic factors to the way of life and the environment.

Key suspects are:

• chemical agents such as pesticides, including xeno-estrogenes, solvents, tobacco, heat,
• but also NON-ionising rays and pulsed electromagnetic radiation generated by numerous household appliances, in particular the cathodic screens of computers, television, video-games, etc.

Several scientific experiments made on various biological models have demonstrated their adverse impact on the mechanism of life and reproduction.

• In 1982, Professor Delgado (Spain) showed that chick embryos exposed to pulsed electromagnetic fields developed malformations in 36 cases out of 42, as opposed to 4 out of 26 in a group not exposed to the same fields. But he did not explain the "mechanism" that caused them.
• In 1986, Professor Mikowaczyjck studied personnel from the Polish airline LOT, and showed that women who worked more than 4h/day in front of a screen suffered 36% of miscarriages, whereas women who were not exposed suffered only 16%. That was a 125% increase.
• In 1988, Doctor Marylin Goldhaber of the «Kaiser Permanente Institute of California», USA, published the results of her studies in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine of May 1988. She followed 1785 women during three years and noticed a 100% increase in miscarriages among those who worked more than 20h/week in front of a screen. Foetuses suffered from 40% more genetic abnormalities more than the "normal" average of non exposed women.
• In 1989, Doctor Lucien Abenhaim / INSERM (he later became a Professor and General Director of the DGS) published in WWU/89/Canada a «warning» for women exposed to screens with regard to their incrreasing risk of miscarrying.
• In 1992, Doctor Marja-Lisa Lindbaum of the Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki (Finland) confirmed the previous results, and published a new warning in the American Journal of Epidemiology of 01/11/92, n°9, Vol 136 P 1041Š
• Professor Sisken (University of Kentucky, USA) showed that chick embryos exposed during 5 days to the PEMR of a computer screen presented a 60% increase in congenital anomalies, in comparison to protected exposed embryos, which remained healthy (publications BEMS/Salt-Lake-City, 1991 & EBEA / Brussels 1992).
• In 1991, A.M Laverdure, Doctor of Sciences, Laureate of the Academy of Sciences, then Director of Research with the CNRS (France), exposed drosophila eggs in front of a screen during the embryogenesis period (24h). Ten days later, when the adults hatched, the mortality rate had doubled, going from 14.7% in a non-exposed breeding to 28.2%. But, if all the post-embryonnaire development is left exposed to the PEMR, the mortality rate jumps from 14.7% to 32%. When breeding of the same source was exposed to the same screens but protected with the EMF-Bioshield® elements, the mortality rate compared with the controlled breeding, did not show any significant difference, proving the original cause of the mortality increase. This showed that PEMR are « absorbed » during the embryonic period, but become visible only when adults hatch and not during the larval development.
• At the 10th Congress on Occupational Health Services in Amsterdam (Nov 2002), a European team showed an important INCREASE in human DNA breaks exposed «in vitro» for 24 hours in front of a cathodic screen, in comparison to the same human DNA exposed in front of the same screen, equipped with the protection elements EMF-Bioshield®, which eliminates the adverse biological effects of the PEMR, bringing to evidence the original cause of breaks when a comparison was made between non-exposed, exposed-protected, and exposed-non-protected operators.
• Repeated spontaneous miscarriages are mainly due to ovary abnormalities in relation with chromosomal aberrations. These studies and results would shed a new light on the causes of these miscarriages or congenital malformations, and even on the difficulties to become pregnant, which could be caused by the biological effects of computer, TV and videogame cathodic screens.
• In 1998, at the IEEE/EMBS Congress in Hong Kong, a publication showed that the cultures of human testicle tissues exposed to the cathodic screen of a new computer labeled «Low Radiation» presented an apoptosis and a cellular necrosis that went from less than 5% to more than 20%, i.e. an increase of more than 300% in 24 hours, when compared with the same human tissues non exposed, and with the same cultures exposed to a similar screen but equipped with the EMF-Bioshield® protection elements.
  These ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies) radiation interfere therefore with the development of the mitosis: spermatogonia go into apoptosis, and the disturbance rate of the meiosis increases. We can therefore conclude that PEMR can impact the reproduction cellular mechanisms in men. Since we know that a disruption of the meiosis and of the spermiogenesis can cause a decrease in production of spermatozoons, with a diminished vitality, this study reveals one «possible» causal origin, with important human epidemiological and economical consequences.
• En 1987 &1989, l'O.M.S., publiait les travaux (1984) des Professeurs Johansson et Aaronson (Suède) montrant l'inversion des courbes d'excrétion d'adrénaline dans les urines chez les humains adultes dès la 4ème heure d'exposition aux écrans cathodiques. Il semblerait que l'organisme « agressé par les REMP » retiendrait son adrénaline pour faire face à cette agression. Ceci entraînerait des agressivité, nervosité, violence, accrues, une diminution de sécrétion de mélatonine et d'activité immunitaire voire un déséquilibre hormonal susceptible de bloquer le cycle de la femme, et faire baisser significativement la libido l'homme.
  It is interesting to note that Swedish law recognizes that pregnant women have the right to be exempted from working in front of a screen.

In face of the distress of women wishing to become pregnant but exposed daily to PEMR, protection measures against their screens' PEMR, combined for some of them with a complementary micro nutrition regimen, were recommended. This helped several of them, under medical supervision, to become naturally pregnant within three to four months after they were put under protection. It should be noted also that this three to four months time frame is the same as the observed to recuperate, regulate, and normalize the female cycle.

Dietary deficiencies:

The complementary micro nutrition is recommended in view of the frequency of partial deficiencies existing in certain essential nutrients. These deficiencies are linked among others to dietary habits:
• Excess of sugar and animal fats ,
• Insufficient vegetables and fruits...

and to the evolution of the agri-food industry:
• Products weakened in nutritional substances by intensive over-cultivation,
• Products more and more refined or denatured by heat and ionizing radiation,
• Products «enriched» with chemical additives such as conserving agents, fertilizers or pesticides, which block the catalytic action of trace elements.

The treatment

During the first stage, we induce an anti-toxic action by helping the cells to eliminate all toxic elements which clog them, and in the second stage, we support a relaunching of the metabolism, and a restructuring of the terrain by bringing in the missing trace elements and nutrients.

Clinical cases:

• To illustrate, here is the case of a 39 year-old female, a writer, who works more than 8 hours a day in front of a cathodic screen, suffering from a slight adenomyosis, and who had three miscarriages before giving birth to her first child at the age of 36.
• Since then she had not been able to become pregnant again. Now more than 38, she was refused acess to a medically assisted procreation in a public hospital. She was extremely stressed and anguished at the idea of not having other children.
• Her system was balanced through micro-nutrition, and then she protected herself against the harmful impact of the PEMR coming off of her computer screen with the EMF-Bioshield® elements, and three months later she was pregnant.

... And she became pregnant "naturally" three months later...

Here is the case of another couple who had been trying to have a child for more than a year without success.
• She was 31 years old, with no particular problem besides an abortion following a relationship with a previous partner. Her cycle was regular and normal every 30 days.
• On the other hand, the semen analysis of her husband showed an extreme asthenospermia with 6% mobility, and a fairly important teratospermia of 84% with multiple anomalies right above normal. The volume was 3,6ml and the number was 48 millions/ml.
• This 35 year-old man worked in a garage and had had surgery at the age of 8 for a right groin hernia, and later had his appendix removed at the age of 10.
• He smoked 10 cigarettes/day between the ages of 16 and 34. He had also smoked cannabis since the age of 16.
• Additionally, he had been spraying paint on cars for a dozen years without a mask.
• He was quite often in front of a screen to put data in.
• Every evening for 2 and a half hours as well as during weekends, the couple watched television on a computer screen using a television card.

The EMF-Bioshield® protection elements were installed on the screen at home, and the micro-nutritional treatment to desintoxicate and restructure was followed during 4 months.

The man was also asked to stop smoking cannabis, which he was not able to fully do, smoking one every evening. Three months later, the new semen analysis showed a net improvement in spermatozoons mobility from 6 to 19%. His wife became pregnant 5 months later.

His wife became pregnant 5 months later.

Conclusion

• To clarify the problem of this increasing infertility, and even more so to reverse it, it is necessary to build a real environmental medicine, a field which is still young and needs cooperation between diverse specialists.