Is this really so bad? Assuming humans are hit the hardest, the planet will be better off.
Obviously we wouldn't want it to kill our civilization, but for the mean time, it doesn't sound so bad with less homo sapiens
Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
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Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s certainly anecdata since it’s just me but it was multiple tests over that period and showed a steady increase from not going to work for IVF to the level where it would. They test a number of things from total count, count per ml, motility, correctness of shape. Everything went up. The shape was my main issue and that was the thing that increased 4X I should say I also took some supplements too. The problem with…
How did you cut out tap water, heat, microplastics, teflon, and the western diet?
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#83As someone who has had to do IVF for our child and go through the challenge of figuring our what to do to try and improve sperm quality, I can tell you once you start looking into it, basically everything about modern life is bad for sperm. Heat, radiation, plastic, micro plastics, soya, tap water, Teflon, antibacterial soap, underpants, western diet. It’s a perfect storm. If you’re going though it though I offer a r…
You said "temporarily", so I want to remind you that all the same things are harmful to a child's development, especially when their systems are just coming online and establishing their baselines.
Yes absolutely! Still doing the dietary things for her. She gets to have hot baths though, and wear tight fitting underpants.
FYI anyone else reading, if you have a boy Teflon is really something you should avoid.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are lists available, e.g. https://edlists.org/ When the EU was debating the REACH regulations there was a big push to move to a "don't sell or produce it until you can prove it's safe" stance, but AFAIK it was significantly watered down before an agreement was reached. https://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_en.ht... Then there's the problem of "chemical cocktails", where combinations of chemical…
Is there a reason we can't just dump tons of mice into different sets and combos of chemicals and see what happens?
One problem is mice aren't humans. In many cases research done on mice ends up being overly pessimistic, because the short lifespans of mice compared to humans means there is less evolutionary pressure to be resilient to cancers and other diseases of aging. Equally, in other circumstances they'll be more resilient, because they don't live long enough to see the effects of longer term toxins. And of course, there can be differences in specific metabolic pathways.
So yes, it certainly would be good to do more of that research. But there's limits to what it can tell us.
Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#85As someone who has had to do IVF for our child and go through the challenge of figuring our what to do to try and improve sperm quality, I can tell you once you start looking into it, basically everything about modern life is bad for sperm. Heat, radiation, plastic, micro plastics, soya, tap water, Teflon, antibacterial soap, underpants, western diet. It’s a perfect storm. If you’re going though it though I offer a r…
antibacterial soap, too? how do you keep yourself clean? and underpants, how? because of how tight they are?
> antibacterial soap, too? how do you keep yourself clean?
Regular soap?
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#86> Now Swan, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, has written a book, “Count Down,” that will be published on Tuesday and sounds a warning bell. This article is a submarine[1] for some guy’s book. 1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Sure, but it is also true.
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#87> Store food in glass containers, not plastic. Above all, don’t microwave foods in plastic or with plastic wrap on top. Avoid pesticides. Buy organic produce if possible. Avoid tobacco or marijuana. Use a cotton or linen shower curtain, not one made of vinyl. Don’t use air fresheners. Prevent dust buildup. Vet consumer products you use with an online guide like that of the Environmental Working Group. I really want t…
It's reasonable to work on the factors that you can easily influence. Once you've tackled those, you can see what else you can still fix. It doesn't need to be all or nothing.
Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#88As someone who has had to do IVF for our child and go through the challenge of figuring our what to do to try and improve sperm quality, I can tell you once you start looking into it, basically everything about modern life is bad for sperm. Heat, radiation, plastic, micro plastics, soya, tap water, Teflon, antibacterial soap, underpants, western diet. It’s a perfect storm. If you’re going though it though I offer a r…
So you started drinking bottled water, turned off the Wifi, eating sushi and going commando? Doesn't sound so bad, really.
Haha. I unfortunately did take it a bit more seriously. There was a point where if someone offered me a biscuit with my decaf tea my inner monologue would say “if you eat that biscuit you might never have children”. It was at least in that way the easiest diet I ever went on. 100% motivation!
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
antibacterial soap, too? how do you keep yourself clean? and underpants, how? because of how tight they are?
> antibacterial soap, too? how do you keep yourself clean? Regular soap?
Exactly. Antibacterial soap is marketing BS. Soap already kills bacteria. As it has done since it was invented.
Proof point- look how hard antibacterial soap is being advertised during the pandemic, which is cause by a frikkin VIRUS
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#90“Climate change is one exception“
Lol every time...