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Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

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Post by cblconfederate »

mekkkkkk wrote: post #194
cblconfederate wrote: post #99

And what are the behavioral effects of such large physiological changes en masse? Surely neurochemical changes will manifest everywhere, from mental health to politics

Shorter attention spans, more lethargy, lower overall intelligence. You could point at a number of cultural and political developments over the last decades and argue that these neurochemical changes could be a contributing factor. However, it must be pretty much impossible to know for sure. The supposed effects are too intangible and the compounds are too pervasive. We can only speculate.

This might well be true, and there may be a measurable correlation if someone is willing to investigate it.

However i m not sure what s the way forward: policies to reverse this health crisis, or adapt politics to this new reality?

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Post by rblatz »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #213
danlugo92 wrote: post #207

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Whats a good alternative? The ceramic ones?

Enamel Ceramic Cast iron Stainless steel In that order, in my opinion.

You left out the two I’ve been considering, hard anodized and high carbon steel. Any reason why?

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Post by Manifretto »

Bakary wrote: post #259
Manifretto wrote: post #206

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He is probably coning on a subtile not relevant level. I googled his SCD and yes its the same schema f with his book and everything else he does. It is not new at all. His website uses the same technics to promote 'his' revolutionary things while never ever having done anthing new anything relevant at all. And i read his 4-hour workweek. I payed for that book. His charisma triggerd me to get it. This still doesn't me…

>I personally would not be proud of myself though if i had his 'career'. It's interesting how we are primed to assume a psychological burden for anyone who is financially successful. Perhaps to help ourselves cope? I'm not singling your comment out specifically, as I often have the same reaction. For all we know, Ferriss is probably highly satisfied, completely at ease with himself, and enjoying a great and varied ex…

Don't get me wrong, its not about the money itself necessarily but how you earn it.

He sells himself and in my opinion he does use marketing tools and mechanisms i don't like.

Nonetheless, the only reason why i care about him as he gets mentioned on HN every year or so. I care enough to write a comment but not to do anything else.

How he does it and what he does feels for me like mental esotherism.

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Post by WalterGR »

WalterGR wrote: post #39
vkou wrote: post #5

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> Perhaps those items are made from a material that the manufacturers know has potential health implications and that's why they're carefully not saying what it is? Unlikely. It's more likely that they don't know, because they didn't look too hard. The reason it's not recyclable has nothing to do with that, though. It's not recyclable because plastic recycling is very difficult, many plastics can't be recycled, and o…

any contaminants will ruin an entire batch. Food is an example of such a contaminant. This is a myth.

(It’s too late to edit my comment, but to be clear, food is a contaminant - it’s a myth that any amount of contaminant will ruin a batch...)

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Post by yknuri »

User23 wrote: post #254
lupire wrote: post #217

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Oils are dietary fats though?

Refined seed oils are synthetic chemicals that just happen to use seeds as a feedstock in a relatively novel chemical reaction. Yes one can quibble that cooking is a chemical reaction, but it’s one that is both simple and that we’re long since evolved to tolerate. I stick to mechanically produced vegetable oils and animal fats. It’s not only healthier but it tastes better too. However, a healthy diet depends a great…

Where does one find mechanically produced vegetable oils? I'm piqued, thanks in advance.

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Post by Razengan »

jonplackett wrote: post #88
VectorLock wrote: post #66

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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!

What's so wrong with never having children?

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Post by kleer001 »

esja wrote: post #101

Can these endocrine disruptors also contribute to gender dysphoria?

Probably not Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. That's social.

Additionally transexuals have appeared in every extant civilization. Some women have felt more like themselves passing as men and some men have felt more themselves passing as women. From Indian to Chinese to Native Americans there's always been people like that. I'm pretty sure any impression of there being more of them is due to news cycles, fast communications, and increasing overall empathy.

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Post by medium_burrito »

tzone wrote: post #266
jonplackett wrote: post #47

As 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…

Weight loss and proper exercise will probably deliver 99% of the improvements for 99% of the people. Stressing about heat, radiation, micro plastics, or other random stuff seems like extra stress for not that much benefit. Most people in Western world are either out of shape, or straight up obese. It makes sense that, that will have huge negative effects on fertility.

Yeah, I'm gonna take Obesity for $400, Alex.

Sidenote: When someone overfeeds their animal as is common in America, would that be Obestiality?

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Post by VectorLock »

jonplackett wrote: post #88
VectorLock wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Sounds like the biggest life change you made was dieting then?

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Post by gspr »

giantg2 wrote: post #271
gspr wrote: post #237

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> Yes, there have been numerous studies showing that the radio frequencies (radiation) used by cell phones and wifi are correlated (maybe causative, but not 100% sure) to reduced sperm count and quality. Do you have some references? > This is especially true when you have your phone in your pocket or your laptop on your lap. Are you sure you're not mixing up heat and radiation here? OK, technically radiative heat is…

"Do you have some references?" Here's one of many if you google. https://natural-fertility-info.com/study-wi-fi-laptop-comput... "Are you sure you're not mixing up heat and radiation here?" I'm not. If you look at my other statements in my comment, you will see that distance plays an important part in RF exposure. Energy dissipates rapidly and is generally minimal beyond 6' when we are talking about sub-watt consumer…

> > "Do you have some references?" > > Here's one of many if you google. https://natural-fertility-info.com/study-wi-fi-laptop-comput...

A blog post by "Dalene Barton - Certified Herbalist, Birth Doula". Lol, you've got to be kidding me?!

> You quoted me in the above and complained about speculation. You can see in the italics that I acknowledge that I don't know if the distant transmitters cause problems or not.

So why bring them up? Moreover: You also don't know if the close ones do. I mean, your herbalist does, but that doesn't count ;-)

> I've already linked one study.

"Study". Something peer-reviewed, please. It can be done by a herbalist if you insist, but it needs to be peer-reviewed by actual experts.

> I'd also like to ask where your evidence is that it is harmless?

That no harm has been found. The same class of evidence you rely on when you eat a carrot and wonder whether it's poisonous or not.

> Did you also miss the study that said specific brain cancer incidence is raised by holding a cell phone to your head?

Glanced at it now. Please correct tme if I'm wrong, but is it really true that that they did a study with n=90 rats and used the occurrance of 2 cases of tumors in them, versus 0 in the control, as evidence???

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