Jokes on you, my sperm count fell 100% three years ago, and I like it that way.
Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
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Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Soy isn't that easy: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Medical-me... There was one study with 99 participants. A counter argument is Asia, where men eat a lot more soy and don't have reduced sperm count.
They've also eaten soy for much longer than others, literally thousands of years(1) at this point. That's more than long enough to evolve countermeasures if it did have an effect. They also eat soy differently, mainly in products which are fermented. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#History
You mean the soyboys have been out evolved and outbred by the tofu eating Chadhuris?
Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#153Pick a random essential nutrient. For instance, take zinc. Human body needs it. It needs to be taken in. You need to ensure the right food items, or the right supplements, doesn't matter. Where does that source come from? plants? animals? imported? produced? What goes into that? What's the prevalent intake level in developed countries? developing countries? what should be the right intake level? where (which parts of…
Or just stop, or reduce as much as possible, the amount of crap we eat? There is no reason why meat has to be that low cost. Or that we cannot cook ourselves with fresh ingredients, ideally grown and sourced locally. Nutrition, being a basic of human survival, has been sovled for millenias. We just lost it with pushing industrialized food production, of any kid, way to far over the point needed to get rid of starvati…
Nutrition, being a basic of human survival, has been sovled for millenias.
Humans were mostly subsistence cultures for millennia (which means a period of a thousand years, so you are saying we solved this thousands of years ago). We routinely starved to death and only recently figured out something called "nutrients" exist in food. It isn't that long ago we discovered Vitamin C as the cure for scurvy and it's the reason we have nicknames like "limeys."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey
That's from the 1850s. Not from two thousand years ago.
Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drink Voss? and re-fillVOSS bottles with distilled water? You can get distilled water delivered in very large glass jugs (4 gallons i think?)
Some thought that distilled water may not be desirable: https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
very minor concern vs. benefits you get.
This is mostly about dissolved minerals, carbonates etc, and you should be able to control trivially.
I know I would prefer to know exactly what's in my water.
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#155> 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…
Yeah this is my issue. I have to drink bottled water for water quality reasons. How am I supposed to avoid plastic there?
There are some pretty decent filters out there that are not crazy expensive, guess it depends on how bad the water is though.
Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#156Pick a random essential nutrient. For instance, take zinc. Human body needs it. It needs to be taken in. You need to ensure the right food items, or the right supplements, doesn't matter. Where does that source come from? plants? animals? imported? produced? What goes into that? What's the prevalent intake level in developed countries? developing countries? what should be the right intake level? where (which parts of…
Or just stop, or reduce as much as possible, the amount of crap we eat? There is no reason why meat has to be that low cost. Or that we cannot cook ourselves with fresh ingredients, ideally grown and sourced locally. Nutrition, being a basic of human survival, has been sovled for millenias. We just lost it with pushing industrialized food production, of any kid, way to far over the point needed to get rid of starvati…
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Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#157As 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... avoided all that? How? You didn't wear underpants or what?
One can wear underwear, just not tight-fitting. There is a reason balls are free-hanging. They should not get too warm.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
We all know what these are. It's precursors to common plastics, and byproducts of their decay. Majority of these have been grandfathered as GRAS "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA when environmental laws first went live in the 60s. The onus is therefore much higher, it is on you to prove they are harmful, instead of requiring producers to prove they are safe. Nobody wants to stick their neck out because the pe…
The most reasonable work around is to force producers to label their product. There are many vegetable packing containers which do not specify which plastic type they are. There are thousands of cleaning products and hygiene products that hide these compounds in the 'Parfums' label. Forcing manufacturers to exaustively list composition would at least give people the data to make an informed decision when buying a pro…
It's labeled now, and what good is that? I am sure you've seen "sodium benzoate" if you ever read these.
Not until someone actually finds free benzene in the drinks, giving rise to serious liability on the part of the companies, absolutely nothing gets done.
Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
#159As 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... avoided all that? How? You didn't wear underpants or what?
Why would you need underwear when you could just freeball every day?
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#160Is 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
1. This is happening in the western world, not in places the population is growing fastest 2. It's not just less humans, it s of worse quality
> 2. It's not just less humans, it s of worse quality
what do you mean by this? that humans not of the western world are "lower quality"?