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Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

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Re: Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

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What's so wrong with never having children?

Having children and passing on your genes is literally the entire reason you exist as a living breathing organism.

Wouldn't raping and pillaging weaker communities be the most efficient way of succeeding at that?

As it had been for millennia before, I wager.

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Won't bottled water be more likely to contain plastic traces?

There are reusable glass bottles, at least where I live.

There are here as well, but I can only think of one brand in an aisle of water that uses glass.

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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…

> I stick to mechanically produced vegetable oils and animal fats.

Can you give examples of what you use?

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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…

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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 irr…

Please don't perpetuate flamewars, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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He said nothing illegal happened, so what should the FBI do? I wish the FBI could look into people like you.

ok pedo guy

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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something something Alex Jones something something //edit// This is semi-facetious, but he did mention something similar in his, er, unique fashion.

He also would rant about jeffrey epstein years before the media caught on.

Sounds like Johnny Rotten and Jimmy Savile: https://louderthanwar.com/interesting-1978-clip-of-johnny-ro...

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It would be helpful if we knew eactly what these endocrine-disrupting chemicals were. As is usually the case with such reports, this article is short on specifics. Over the years there have many reports from cleaners to plasticizers, phthalates, and various other chemicals as endocrine disruptors but no one has put a sufficient measure on the problem so that we can move foreword - put regulations in place, etc. As th…

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…

"Nobody wants to stick their neck out because the petrochemicals lobby will go after you, your career and your family."

Yeah. That's more blunt and succinct than I put it, and you're absolutely correct. It's a damning indictment on our laws, our governance and even our society that this can actually happen.

These days, techies and engineers fear to speak out and it takes a very brave person to be a whistleblower—and when they are, they're even ostracized by work colleagues who know the facts just as well as they do.

Laws have to be strengthened and new ones enacted but unfortunately there seems a snowball's of that happening.

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It is "we". Almost all people I know will make selfish decisions that harm others for their own advantage. It seems to be simply human nature.

> It seems to be simply nature. FTFY. It's all about survival. Humans are animals not much different than a deer, lion or whatever. A deer will run away from something it doesn't know where a lion will attack/kill anything it doesn't know. Just like the stereotypical "git off my land" character of a country bumpkin. I mean, how do you feel when you see a stranger walking on your property? Same thing. I always laugh w…

Yes, but words exist and mean things. The fact that everything is natural does not mean that unnatural things don't exist.

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What were the things you did? Did it improve testosterone levels too? If that is the mechanism, could you raise sperm count with artificial testosterone? Or would that be counterproductive?

If you take testosterone, your pituitary will tell your testicles that there is enough testosterone, and that they can chill out, so the testicles will produce less testosterone and less sperm. This is why anabolic steroid users can develop shrunken (atrophied) testicles. In addition, through enzymatic equilibrium, you will also produce more estrogen (excess testosterone is converted to estrogen and vice versa), whic…

Interesting! Thanks for the explanation.
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