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minus-squarereddifuge@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoMeat and dairy contains hormones that increase estrogen and reduce testosterone, not plants.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoalso your plastic bottles, and people dump so much birth control into the water system too.
minus-squarereddifuge@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoMicroplastics is a hard one to study, I think it does have a detrimental effect on testosterone though.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThat may be, I was just saying I’m not particularly concerned about it anyway.
minus-squarereddifuge@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYeah I know, that’s why T levels in the USA has dropped by 20% in the last 20 years and obesity is rapidly increasing.
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoPretty sure obesity is increasing because people are sedentary and eat like shit. Testosterone is known to go down in obese people so I think you have your cause and effect reversed there.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoobesity, the fat produces eostrogen compounds, thats why it also reduces pregnancy chances too,. thats why its not safe for obese people to be pregnant.
Meat and dairy contains hormones that increase estrogen and reduce testosterone, not plants.
also your plastic bottles, and people dump so much birth control into the water system too.
Microplastics is a hard one to study, I think it does have a detrimental effect on testosterone though.
That may be, I was just saying I’m not particularly concerned about it anyway.
Yeah I know, that’s why T levels in the USA has dropped by 20% in the last 20 years and obesity is rapidly increasing.
Pretty sure obesity is increasing because people are sedentary and eat like shit.
Testosterone is known to go down in obese people so I think you have your cause and effect reversed there.
obesity, the fat produces eostrogen compounds, thats why it also reduces pregnancy chances too,. thats why its not safe for obese people to be pregnant.