Fertility Problems In Men After COVID-19 Infections
And whether vaccines will cause the same problems
An interesting study from Belgium, on male fertility problems after COVID-19, has just been made available and you can read it in full here. The implications for fertility problems after natural infection are clear and I’ll comment on it below but I also wanted to discuss whether vaccinations will produce similar results.
A disclaimer before I begin - None of what I write is anti-vaxx and the image used above is me being facetious. I am exclusively focusing on COVID-19 vaccines and presenting any interesting and relevant studies and documents I find for everyone to discuss. Nobody knows everything, so it is important to openly debate findings, with the hope that new inputs from other contributors will make things clearer and hopefully alleviate any worries. It is of particular importance that this isn’t an echo chamber, so I encourage everybody to share these posts with peers who have opposing views. Everybody should weigh up the risks and benefits of whether to have a COVID-19 vaccine depending on their own circumstances (age, health etc), discuss with as many people as possible to get a balanced opinion but ultimately the final decision should be down to you and you alone.
The second disclaimer is that this study has not been peer reviewed although it was submitted in July of this year, accepted in October and now made available, so clearly isn’t nonsense.
So, back to the study. It was designed to look at the contagiousness of sperm and its influence on fertility after recovery from COVID-19 infection. The study took place between the first and second waves of infection in Europe and so, because this was earlier in the year, none of the men were vaccinated.
The good news is that the study found semen is not infectious with SARS-CoV-2 at 1 week or more after COVID-19 infection. None of the samples contained viral RNA.
The not-so-good news is that the study found profound reductions in sperm concentration, the number of spermatozoa produced, and both total and progressive motility of the spermatozoa after COVID-19 infection. To put it simply, DNA damaged sperm and reduced fertility. This was most severe during the first month after COVID-19 infection and almost back to normal after 2/3 months.
At first, the authors’ hypothesized that the temporary sperm abnormalities could be due to fever or severity of other symptoms connected with COVID-19 disease. Studies of other viral infections, including flu, show links between severity of fever and sperm motility. However, with COVID-19, this was not the case.
What they did find was a strong correlation between titres of specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies against the spike protein and the spike-1-receptor-region-domain antigens of the virus with reduced sperm function. They conclude that this indicates an immunologic rather than a fever-induced causality of the temporary sperm dysfunction.
As I mentioned above, all the men were unvaccinated and were naturally infected, so the press is reporting on this as a further reason to get vaccinated and boosted. My concern, however, is that if the reduced fertility is caused by an immunological response (rather than the virus itself), then surely the same thing will happen after being vaccinated? The body still produces the same antibodies against the spike protein doesn’t it (and often in higher doses)? The same antibodies which they report is the reason for the reduction in fertility.
Fertility returned to near normal after 2/3 months, so I have no reason to think the same recovery would not happen after vaccination and a few months of reduced fertility vs hospitalisation or death may be considered worth it. However, what if the same thing happens every time you are boosted (some people have had 3 doses within a year already), then what happens? Even if fertility returns to normal after 2/3 months each time, with no long lasting effects, this will still have a big knock on impact on number of births in countries with heavily vaccinated populations.
It’s too early to see any signs of this in the real world yet because most young people have not been vaccinated for more than 9 months. However, it won’t take long and it would be interesting to see any data or hear, anecdotally, if there is a reduction in women booking in for first trimester appointments etc. One thing is certain, trials should have been conducted to look into these things before mass vaccination began.
If anyone with more specialty in this field can show me that I have completely got the wrong end of the stick then I am very happy to take this article down.
It isn’t a matter of will our fertility return. It is a matter of even being around if you get vaccinated with these spike protein mRNA injections.....read what they are not telling you....fertility is the least of you concerns.
And we have a President telling us if we don’t get injected we are not an American.....If you follow his advice you may not even be around.
THE COVID SPIKE PROTEIN IS THE BIO-WEAPON
The vaccine is the weapon. Your immune system is your defence.
The prestigious Salk Institute (q.v.), founded by vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, has authored and published a bombshell scientific article revealing that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is what’s actually causing vascular damage in covid patients and covid vaccine recipients, promoting the strokes, heart attacks, migraines, blood clots and other harmful reactions that have already killed thousands of Americans (source: VAERS.hhs.gov)
Critically, all four covid vaccine brands currently in widespread use either inject patients with the spike protein or, via mRNA technology, instruct the patient’s own body to manufacture spike proteins and release them into their own blood. This floodsthe patient’s body with the very spike protein that the Salk Institute has now identified as the smoking gun cause of vascular damage and related events (such as blood clots, which are killing many people who take the vaccines).Put simply, it means the vaccines were designed to contain the very element which is killing people.
The false assumption of the vaccine industry and its propagandists is that the spike protein is “inert” and harmless. The Salk Institute proves this assumption to be dangerously inaccurate. The spike protein “damages cells” causes “vascular disease” even without a virus.
In an article entitled, “The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness“, published on April 30th, 2021, the Salk Institute warns that, “Salk researchers and collaborators show how the protein damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease.”
From that article:
Now, a major new study shows that the virus spike proteins (which behave very differently than those safely encoded by vaccines) also play a key role in the disease itself.
The paper, published on April 30, 2021, in Circulation Research, also shows conclusively that COVID-19 is a vascular disease, demonstrating exactly how the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages and attacks the vascular system on a cellular level.
“A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease,” says Assistant Research Professor Uri Manor, who is co-senior author of the study. “That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings.”
...the paper provides clear confirmation and a detailed explanation of the mechanism through which the protein damages vascular cells for the first time.
In the new study, the researchers created a “pseudovirus” that was surrounded by the SARS-CoV-2 classic crown of spike proteins but which did not contain any actual virus. Exposure to this pseudovirus resulted in damage to the lungs and arteries of an animal model—proving that the spike protein alone was enough to cause disease. Tissue samples showed inflammation in endothelial cells lining the pulmonary artery walls.
The team then replicated this process in the lab, exposing healthy endothelial cells (which line our arteries) to the spike protein. They showed that the spike protein damaged the cells by binding ACE2. This binding disrupted ACE2’s molecular signaling to mitochondria (organelles that generate energy for cells), causing the mitochondria to become damaged and fragmented.
Previous studies have shown a similar effect when cells were exposed to the SARS- CoV-2 virus, but this is the first study to show that the damage occurs when cells are exposed to the spike protein on its own.
“If you remove the replicating capabilities of the virus, it still has a major damaging effect on the vascular cells, simply by virtue of its ability to bind to this ACE2 receptor, the S protein receptor, now famous thanks to COVID,” Manor explains. “Further studies with mutant spike proteins will also provide new insight towards the infectivity and severity of mutant SARS CoV-2 viruses.”
The article does not mention that covid-19 vaccines are injecting patients with the very same spike protein that was studied, but this fact is widely known and even touted by the vaccine industry.
The upshot of this research is that covid vaccines are inducing vascular disease and directly causing injuries, deaths stemming from blood clots and other vascular reactions. This is all caused by the spike protein that’s deliberately engineered into the vaccines.
From the medical journal Circulation Research: The spike protein is what’s causing the damage.
The Salk Institute article refers to this science paper published in Circulation Research: SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Impairs Endothelial Function via Downregulation of ACE 2.
This paper is the first to document the mechanism by which spike proteins — even ones lacking an active viral component — cause vascular destruction by binding to ACE2 receptors and inhibiting the function of cellular
From the paper:
SARS-CoV-1 [Spike] protein promotes lung injury by decreasing the level of ACE2 in the infected lungs. In the current study, we show that S protein alone can damage vascular endothelial cells (ECs) by downregulating ACE2 and consequently inhibiting mitochondrial function.
We next studied the impact of S protein on mitochondrial function. Confocal images of ECs treated with S1 protein revealed increased mitochondrial fragmentation, indicating altered mitochondrial dynamics...
Moreover, ACE2-L overexpression caused increased basal acidification rate, glucose- induced glycolysis, maximal glycolytic capacity, and glycolytic reserve (Figure [D], ii). Also, ECs incubated with S1 protein had attenuated mitochondrial function but increased glycolysis, when compared with control cells treated with IgG...our data reveals that S protein alone can damage endothelium, manifested by impaired mitochondrial function and eNOS activity but increased glycolysis. It appears that S protein in ECs increases redox stress which may lead to AMPK deactivation, MDM2 upregulation, and ultimately ACE2 destabilization.
The study, obviously authored by a pro-vaccine organization, then says that “vaccination-generated antibodies” may protect the body from the spike protein. Thus, the paper is essentially saying (paraphrased): “The spike protein may cause enormous damage to the vascular system when a person is injected with that spike protein, and when that person’s immune system attacks the spike protein and neutralizes it, the damage may be halted.”
In other words, the human immune system is trying to protect the patient from the damage caused by the vaccine, before the patient is killed by the adverse reactions.
Put another way, any person who actually survives the covid vaccine only does so because their innate immune system is protecting them from the vaccine, not with the vaccine. The vaccine is the weapon. Your immune system is your defence.
Mumps virus also known to cause reduced fertility in men. Agree trials should have looked at this prior to global rollout . What does appear to be of concern is high rates of foetal and maternal death post vaccination compared to non vaccine years .