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Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought

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Post by abenga »

jesterson wrote: post #914
ipaddr wrote: post #821

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Global warming importance as an issue is slowly fading as the world is changing. Make room for new issues.

Spot on. There is substantial amount of companies/people profiteering from climate change fearmongering, so we may expect the trend not to go down very fast

Really?

I get the sense we (as in all of us collectively) are not taking it seriously enough. I wonder where this "fearmongering" is happening. A lot of stuff that is happening (the Western US drought that seems to be the worst in a millenium plus the consequent heavy use of groundwater, triple dip la nina, etc.) seem like they should worry us more than they actually are.

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Post by BSVogler »

Vrondi wrote: post #870
grepsci wrote: post #844

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I'm fascinated by this. I think the desire to make the necessary lifestyle changes is there, but I question the practicality. I want to have my foods and beverages untouched by plastics, but how realistic is this currently? I want to buy bread that's not wrapped in plastic. Is the alternative really to make your own? Even then, can you ensure the ingredients you're sourcing for your own bread starter for example, als…

If you are lucky enough to have a local small bakery near you, then they might use paper bags (mine does), or you can take your own bag. If you only have supermarkets, you can buy things like baguettes, Italian loaves, and sourdough from the deli area inside many supermarkets, and those sometimes come in paper bags, but you have to check whether the paper bag is lined with plastic.

Paper bags in bakeries sometimes also use coated bags.

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Post by isthisthingon99 »

tjpnz wrote: post #885
zug_zug wrote: post #151

So this trend has been going on for a while now, I looked a bit into it about 5 years ago here's what I found: - Tons of popular and legal products/chemicals are "endocrine disruptors"[1] (fancy term for mess with hormones). - The FDA/EPA doesn't deny that, they don't themselves even really require tests for long-term health effects in humans (too difficult). Instead they give animals a 1000x+ dose and look for immed…

How can this be fixed given the vested interests involved?

Through history, only a mass of people have forced a change. That's not possible until you start changing first. And when people around you notice, educate them. It will take time, eventually it will happen.

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Post by djmips »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #638
DevX101 wrote: post #158

The thesis of the book 'Countdown' is that this is largely due to widespread plastic and other endocrine disrupting chemicals. I believe this is one of the most important risks to humanity, after climate change, and global war. So far, I've taken some lifestyle changes to combat this: 1) Threw out all of my teflon cooking pans 2) Refuse to consume food in heated plastics 3) Throw out teabags (they have plastics). Use…

Forget teabags, what about the bazillion microplastics that we inhale/ingest every day from clothing and carpeting? Especially nice when your coworker's idea of cleaning up their dusty PC is by using canned air on it indoors...

Air filter machine? At least that's what I run a fairly robust unit - it seems to be working. Can't vouch it's grabbing all the microplastics or even that's not blowing out extra. haha. But it is getting a lot of dust out.

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Post by djmips »

SoftTalker wrote: post #672
siglesias wrote: post #565

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I cannot recommend highly enough having a set of glass bottles[1] at home. Fill them at the tap (or wherever), refrigerate them, take them to the gym, in the car, serve to guests. Point is to have many, keep a rotation going. Has greatly reduced reliance on plastic. 1) https://amzn.to/3H2YadV

Gyms often ban glass bottles because of the hazard they create when dropped/shattered. I personally use a hard (i.e. not squeezable) plastic bottle, that I fill with cold/cool water just before use. As long as the water has not been sitting in the bottle for days or in the sun or in a hot car, etc. I don't think there is enough potential chemical leeching to worry about.

Any reason to not use a Yeti cup or similar stainless steel thermos cup?

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Post by lancelot-ru »

halpmeh wrote: post #529

The age at which children enter puberty is also decreasing pretty rapidly, especially for girls [0]. 20% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ, which is nearly twice that of millennials [1]. Clearly something is going on with our collective hormones. [0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00147... [1]: https://www.axios.com/2022/02/17/lgbtq-generation-z-gallup

Clearly something is going on with your society.

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Post by itomato »

Vrondi wrote: post #864
Dig1t wrote: post #787

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My partner and I recently embarked on a journey to replace as many products in our lives that contain endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC's) as we could. It's _really_ hard. You have to carefully read product labels, 99.9% of products don't contain any info about EDC's, you have to specially seek out ones that are labeled as phthalate-free, BPA-free, etc. Biggest offenders are in the kitchen and bathroom. Shampoo, co…

Good grief, just trying to find products that are unscented is a nightmare. So many say "unscented" on the front, then have "parfum" or something in the ingredients.

Yes. After much exploration, my family switched shampoo and soap to this alone: https://www.aleavia.com/products/enzymatic-body-cleanse

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Post by anon99879 »

willcipriano wrote: post #535
anon99879 wrote: post #342

I've never written about this before but thought it might be useful for someone who may be experiencing the same/similar problem and believes there's no real prospect of having children. During several years of trying to conceive, I undertook 2 sperm tests with the clinic and on both occasions drew a blank - literally nothing. I can't describe how brutally crushing this is to receive as news - especially from a poorl…

"Hey honey I found out about this new procedure called microdissection testicular sperm extraction..." "I'm going to have to stop you right there" I'm just kidding around, but that could really use a better name.

There's something to be said about having your balls under a microscope while under general. Plus side I got waited on for a week or so afterwards. Nothing compared to what my other half went through, but at least I have a better battle story than most

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Post by xkbarkar »

lancelot-ru wrote: post #957
halpmeh wrote: post #529

The age at which children enter puberty is also decreasing pretty rapidly, especially for girls [0]. 20% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ, which is nearly twice that of millennials [1]. Clearly something is going on with our collective hormones. [0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00147... [1]: https://www.axios.com/2022/02/17/lgbtq-generation-z-gallup

Clearly something is going on with your society.

Those two are not mutually exclusive
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