Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

Post by tabtab » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

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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.

> Weight loss and proper exercise will probably deliver 99% of the improvements for 99% of the people. In addition to be factually incorrect, consider how what you said sounds to the many people who are healthy, active but are having problems with something they thought would be easy. This is very stressful for many people, seeming especially cruel after years of worrying about accidental pregnancy, and the medical t…

Post by chiefalchemist » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 9:54 PM UTC

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Correct me if I'm wrong but being overweight or obese is an endocrine disruptor. Such conditions exist in what ~50%+ of USA adults. Worse there are children growing up who are effectively unhealthy from age 5 forward. Add in other disruptors (e.g., chemicals) and naturally there are going to be problems; problems despite the narrative, are not due to the healthcare system.

This is not limited to US men, similar pattern everywhere in western world https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropp...

Post by lukifer » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 9:58 PM UTC

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In some communities, weight gain is a down-stream effect of "metabolic syndrome", and the "solution" isn't to count calories or exercise more - it's to simply eat _differently_. Sugar is a particularly odious contributor to problems. Like OP, my wife and I also struggled with infertility for a few years (two miscarriages, years of doing everything "right", and not getting pregnant.) We're finally pregnant, and out of…

Really glad to hear you got pregnant. It makes me so happy now when people do after finding it so hard. It’s a shame this info isn’t more easily found by most people. I had the exact same experience with doctors just saying there was nothing a man can do to improve fertility. “It’s just genetic”. I also second the case against sugar. I should have called out refined sugar specifically in my list. That was one thing I…

Post by pseudalopex » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

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Gender dysphoria is usually associated with gender identity rather than sexual preference.

there would be a significant correlation however

Post by Hallucinaut » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 10:02 PM UTC

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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.

I'm duplicating this text higher up, lest it be buried deep in the argument below: > At normal cooking temperatures, PTFE-coated cookware releases various gases and chemicals that present mild to severe toxicity. > Only few studies describe the toxicity of PTFE but without solid conclusions. > There are some reports where PFOA was detected in the gas phase released from the cooking utensils under normal cooking tempe…