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Re:Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought by goalieca on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:36AM (#33817640)
Environmental may be one such reason but we should never omit obesity as a cause for any health problem.

> A bidirectional relationship between testosterone and obesity underpins this association indicated by the hypogonadal-obesity cycle and evidence weight loss can lead to increased testosterone levels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25982085/

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Re:Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought by DoingIsLearning on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:54AM (#33817931)
> we should never omit obesity

Not to say this is not a contributor but this is arguably a US, UK, and Gulf countries problem. Everywhere else we see the same statistical drops without significant obesity incidence.

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Re:Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought by whichfawkes on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:37AM (#33818682)
Obesity can also be related to environmental exposures.
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