Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by creata on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:34AM (#26236112)

> Asians are probably eating less GMO soy

I may be out of the loop here, but why do you say that? Are Asians particularly more GMO-averse than Americans?

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:39AM (#26236145)

I say that based on the two data points I quoted with sources. Presumably 'more than half' is less than 95 percent in most cases.

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by creata on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:51AM (#26236240)

You're probably right. I just wasn't sure that production and consumption of GMO soy would be so neatly linked like that, because so much of that soy is going to livestock.

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:05AM (#26236332)

Yeah, the lack of certainty of a conclusion is why the word "probably" is in that sentence. It's a qualifier. It indicates I don't actually know for certain and this is guess work. (The guess work preceded the googling up of hand-wavy numbers. It's an internet discussion, not a defense of a PhD dissertation.)

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by creata on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:33AM (#26236550)

I didn't suggest otherwise.

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:34AM (#26236560)

Sorry, my 17 year old high school self seems to be alive and well, after all these years. (Insert jokes about my dotage.)

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by ex_amazon_sde on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:39AM (#26236598)

Yes

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