Reply #10: Somehow, this is not all that surprising to me.. [View All]

[SoCalDem]

Nature designed our "equipment" to work at peak efficiency...at YOUNG ages.. As we age, one could assume that environmental (and other) degradations of our physical functions only increase..

It's only been a century since people married in their teens, produced a LOT of children, and mostly died from hard physical labor and a plethora of then-untreatable illnesses...at an early age (compared to today's longevity)..

There are many more "outside-influences" today too, so who knows why our "quality" of offspring is declining ? Which chemical did the damage? Hard to tell, since we are bomboarded with stuff....and our food is chock-ful of fake, mad-made compounds.