McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Infertility Rise: Shocking Truth About Our Health #shorts

14 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Infertility has jumped from 1 in 8 couples to 1 in 6 globally, and 1 in 5 among first-time U.S. couples. Male sperm counts have dropped sharply over 40 years while miscarriage rates and low ovarian reserve have risen. The speaker links these trends to systemic inflammation, insulin resistance, and autoimmune disease driven by normalized unhealthy lifestyles.

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You're spot on, and data supports how accurate you are. You know, when I entered the field almost 15 years ago, we used to say 1 out of every 8 couples would have infertility. Now worldwide, that number is 1 out of 6. And if we look in the US for couples trying to get pregnant for the first time, it's 1 out of 5. So we are seeing a definite increase in the incidence of infertility. We are also seeing an increase in a lot of things, you know, other markers. So higher rate of miscarriage, higher rate of women having a low ovarian reserve or low egg count, huge drop in sperm counts over 40 years. So we're seeing multiple fertility markers besides just can you get pregnant showing this temporal change over these decades. And it's not a coincidence that these things are changing in the same time where we have a more inflammatory world, more, you know, insulin resistance and diabetes and autoimmune disease. The truth is that we have normalized as a society a really unhealthy way of living.