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Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

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Post by airhead969 »

pb7 wrote: post #425
airhead969 wrote: post #410

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Confused? No. She passed herself off as that, acted, and looked the part completely. Size D. Extreme precocious puberty. You would've been fooled too, so please don't judge with perfect knowledge and 20/20 hindsight from afar if you weren't there.

> acted I have a very hard time believing a 12 year old can pass as a 19 year old in maturity. What knowledge or experience can a 12 year old offer to a mid 20s individual to appear intelligent, as you claim? > You would've been fooled too Zero chance. In my mid 20s, I already considered 19 year olds to be far too removed in life stages to consider seriously and the maturity gap between a 12 year old and an 19 year o…

My life experiences have nothing to do with ignorant generalizations or what you think is impossible. You can either accept what I describe with benefit of the doubt, or you can be a prick trying to moralize, judge, and castigate from the comfort of the armchair quarterback chair. It's your choice.

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Post by hojjat12000 »

emptyfile wrote: post #488
hojjat12000 wrote: post #473

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I was recently watching a video on Doublespeak[0], one of the types of doublespeak is to bombard the audience with technical jargon which means you automatically win, unless they know more technical terms than you do! In your case, your comment does not mean anything to me (or probably 99% of the HN users). Instead of this, you could at least cite a reputable source for this claim, this would be 100 times more effect…

If you're fat your testosterone will be low which is bad for a whole lot of reasons, including being infertile. See, I understood it, and English isn't even my first language. Scary thought that 99% of users on this site are dumber then me.

Did you really? You understood the "very clear mechanism"? Can you repeat the mechanism? Do you know what GnRH and LH/FSH are?

Does this comment prove to you that there is a biological explanation? Or does it say some technical terms that might be disputed? Maybe only a small portion of biologists think this way and the majority disagree!

I understand the English part! What I'm saying is this comment without a source doesn't prove a "very clear mechanism".

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wonder_er wrote: post #380
driverdan wrote: post #333

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> Sugar makes you fat. Nonsense. Overeating makes you fat, not a specific carb. Having a biscuit with a few grams of sugar is not going to impact your health in a meaningful way if you're not overeating.

> Overeating makes you fat, not a specific carb. Eating sugar creates a cascade of hormonal knock-on effects that can make you fat. I beg of you (especially if you're struggling with your weight!) to consider the alternatives to Calories-In/Calories-Out eating. My dad is a doctor, he's _convinced_ it's all CICO (which is what was taught to physicians in the 70s, and today), he struggles with his weight, constantly, a…

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Post by ThisIsTheWay »

ecmascript wrote: post #107

Some time ago I realized that modern life wasn't that good for your health so last year I bought a farm on the country side with my gf and now we are trying to grow our own food and make our way into a more self-sustainable life.

I'm interested in this. Care to share more about how you learned? How do you handle water collection, filtration, and distribution? What types of fertilizers are you using to improve the nutrients in your growing soil? What crops are you growing, and are you managing livestock?

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Post by techbio »

inter_netuser wrote: post #177
techbio wrote: post #51

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Preservation of state is not a feature of evolution, and as elegant and informative a theory as it may be, it has as long a history of negative selection as of positive survival.

Are you condoning the destruction of our earth for short term profits?

I cannot believe you think my opinion is going to alter the profit motive, but no, for what it's worth, I am not condoning the destruction of the earth. I'm describing a way to think about our influence on the environment that is most likely to actually happen.

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Post by nvahalik »

jonplackett wrote: post #313
nvahalik wrote: post #302

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We tried for several months but after starting and following a workout regimen for a few weeks... it just happened! It's amazing what a little exercise can do for your body!

It takes 3 months or so for sperm to grow, so on that time frame the exercise can’t have made a difference to your sperm quality, it was probably fine already and you just had to wait to get lucky. Unless you’ve been trying for over a year that’s just a perfectly normal amount of time for it to take anyway

I think it was maybe not on my side, specifically... but just don't tell my wife that. :)

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Post by gamblor956 »

giantg2 wrote: post #447
wittyreference wrote: post #332

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> Here's one of many if you google. https://natural-fertility-info.com/study-wi-fi-laptop-comput ... So, a quick rebuttal to this trash blog post recounting a trash publication. This is a cut-and-paste from a real rebuttal (Dore & Chignol, Fertility & Sterility, 2012), transcribed here for easy browsing. Link at the end: "We think that the evidence presented in this article cannot support the claim that the observed…

Plenty of info to choose from here instead of reading trash rebuttals that didn't attempt the replicate the study with the controls they are complaining about. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cell+phone+sperm+count

One of the first results claims that using the internet resulted in a larger decrease to sperm count than using a cell phone.

And all of the studies that claimed to show a link between cell phone use and decreased sperm were based on surveys of patients at fertility clinics, or were based on subjecting rat testicles to 1000x the amount of radiation that a human would encounter in the real world.

You may want to rethink your citations.

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Post by airhead969 »

pb7 wrote: post #471
slipper wrote: post #465

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You have a hard time believing it possible, so it can't be true? Are you aware that many models you see in magazines are only in their early teens, made to look older with makeup?

It can be true if your judgment is poor. > Are you aware that many models you see in magazines are only in their early teens, made to look older with makeup? I'm not sure what this proves considering you can manipulate photos to look like anything. I would be able to tell within minutes of talking to them in person -- as would any reasonable person -- which is what the discussion is about. If you want to go that rout…

Judgement has nothing to do with my experience.

It can also be true if someone experienced extreme precocious puberty from unknown causes, is highly gifted and a voracious learner/autodidact, is emotionally intelligent, went through some shit in life, and basically had to become the "adult" (became authentically internally-stronger and didn't fall apart) of the family and of siblings when their birth parents were irresponsible and infantile. Improbable? Sure. It happened. Keep judging, impugning, and denigrating from afar.

Have a good day and a productive life. :)

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Post by randomopining »

DC1350 wrote: post #334

It’s called the globohomo agenda and they want to make you weak so you can’t fight back.

Yeah pretty much. But I don’t think it’s insidious.

They just need weak people who will bow to every “pop culture” norm they create to buy the latest stuff.

Strong individualists or even even keel/healthy ones will realize they don’t need much and don’t need to do much to enjoy life.

Weak people need something to grasp onto to give them meaning. Muh new toys, muh new car, muh racism, muh social justice, muh politics, muh cardi b, muh $14 drinks at the bar.

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Post by airhead969 »

forgetfulness wrote: post #444
pb7 wrote: post #425

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> acted I have a very hard time believing a 12 year old can pass as a 19 year old in maturity. What knowledge or experience can a 12 year old offer to a mid 20s individual to appear intelligent, as you claim? > You would've been fooled too Zero chance. In my mid 20s, I already considered 19 year olds to be far too removed in life stages to consider seriously and the maturity gap between a 12 year old and an 19 year o…

Charitably, maybe our colleague here has some type of personality or even neurological disorder that would allow him to, earnestly, bond with a 12 year old as a partner rather than a child acquaintance. A disorder that he should get treated because that poses a danger to others and, eventually, himself. Given the astonishing justifications he gives I'd say his psych and he have a lot of work ahead.

Don't patronize or judge me. You're being a rude dick.
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