Variety singer Keen’V said he suffered from infertility. A subject still largely taboo in France.
- In France, one in four couples fails to conceive a pregnancy after 12 months of trying.
- We speak of infertility of a couple in the absence of pregnancy after 12 to 24 months of full, regular sexual intercourse (two to three times a week) and without contraception.
Yesterday Saturday May 8 in the show 50′ insidethe singer Keen’V confided in his infertility, telling the camera that he had had a lot of trouble getting used to the idea that he could not have children. “At first, you don’t think it’s fair not to have any in real life. You don’t think it’s fair and afterwards, you make up for it. You tell yourself that you shouldn’t have one… And then in real life, you think . Maybe I’ll adopt. If one day, I really feel too lacking, I’ll adopt”he revealed.
“I prefer to be in denial”
The star never had the courage to take the test. “I think I’m sterile, because well, I’ve been sleeping with the same woman for fifteen years without protecting myself. And she’s already had children… But I haven’t done a test, because that it’s going to make me sad. I prefer to be in denial”, he explained to Publictwo years before.
The quality of French sperm has been declining for years, with the increase in male infertility as a corollary. “According to our study conducted on donors between 1973 and 2000, the number of spermatozoa per milliliter has increased from 80 to 40 million in thirty years”, explains in The Parisian Professor Jean-Philippe Wolf, head of the reproductive biology department at Cochin Hospital (Paris XIV).
Less healthy infertile men
If infertility “is a couple problem, the man (who is at the origin of half of the cases) however has an active role to take / resume in the care”, emphasizes François Olivennes, obstetrician-gynecologist and specialist in medically assisted procreation. However, male infertility, a victim of taboos and a lack of information, is still much less well taken care of than in women.
“Infertile men are generally in poorer health than the rest of the population. The pathologies from which these patients suffer in particular are very mainly in direct and indirect links with their lifestyles and more particularly their diet”, explains Prof. Rachel Levy, Head of the Reproductive Biology-CECOS Department at Tenon Hospital (AP-HP). “A man in poor health, especially cardio-metabolic, will transmit an epigenetic pattern, only partially reversible, which will have a negative effect on his fertility but also on the health of his offspring”, she recalls.
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