By: Dr. Zach Bush
(Co-authored by Dr. Peter Cummings)

Human Fertility:
Standing at the Precipice

As a species, we are approaching a moment of existential and biologic transformation. This transformation will manifest either in the sudden awakening of our society, where we reintegrate our entire psychosocial behavior and spiritual identity into the beauty and regenerative nature that we exist within, or an extraordinary hospice chapter that can bring us to this same awakening as we cross the veil into biologic extinction and spiritual freedom.

Our state of fertility as a human species is demonstrative of this tipping point that we have come to. Biologist Paul Ehrlich said in his book The Population Bomb: “Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come — and by the end, I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”

If you’ve been following our Global Health Education series since its origin, you understand that the rise of chronic disease is inexorably linked to our destruction of biodiversity in and around us. Our deeply held belief that nature is against us, that germs — pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites, molds, and fungi, and even weeds are out to kill us — has created our modern co-dependent relationship with antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, herbicides, pesticides, and beyond. The sterilization of our environment and the biologic warfare approach to our model of immunity has unleashed the most extraordinary pandemic of chronic disease in our 200,000 year history. The rise of our diseases, and the collapse of our fertility are the manifestation of the literal sterilization of the human condition.