Re:Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology
by cookiecaper on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:08PM
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Where can I read about "dropping male fertility" as a medical thing? Just taking a blind guess, as someone who doesn't follow the medical field, I would suggest that increases in "infertility" are much more likely to be caused by the older age at which people are becoming interested in "fertilization" than environmental factors causing biological malfunctions. In other words, it's not that reproductive systems are breaking faster, it's just that people aren't using them until they're worse for wear.
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Re:Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology
by sreaching on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:59AM
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testosterone levels have declined in most developed countries when comparing similar age cohorts over time. See the following studies:
from Finland - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23161753.
from USA - https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/196/2598434
it is a bit of a medical mystery because the trend cannot be fully explained by lifestyle factors like weight gain.
Re:Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology
by 52-6F-62 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @11:01AM
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This discussion came up sometime within the past few months. It was really interesting.
I recall mentioning some research into the effects of food/organics preservatives (namely Parabens) and low testosterone: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12419695