• krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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    RFK JR: “I’ve swallowed the loads of thousands of men and boys over the years and the recent decline in the amount of aperm, the taste of the sperm, and the texture of the sperm, makes my brain worms very unhappy”

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    Oh I’m sorry, I thought we are all behind abstinence only sex Ed, so teenagers having low sperm count shouldn’t matter to them right?

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    The man is a crackpot and a con artist, so anything he says on this topic is less than worthless.

    Anyway, fascists are always obsessed with their stunted concepts of virility. Look at the racist concept that Black men are more sexual than white ones, or Alex Jones’s gay frogs rant.

    Here’s a real fact: there is a strong correlation between a man having higher percent body fat and lower sperm motility. And if you look at long-term trends relating to body fat percentage, they’re rising like mad in the US and at a slower rate in much of Europe. Some of that might be lifestyle issues such as longer working hours and higher stress, but there’s also some evidence that certain nearly ubiquitous chemicals act as hormone disruptors.

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    5 hours ago

    They’re trying to justify 65 year old men raping girl children for the “birth rate”. They’re definitely not going to address the fact that families made up of consenting adults can’t afford kids. Old men raping little girls is going to be their answer.

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    Doesn’t matter how this administration spins it, we aren’t going to condone them fucking teenage girls.

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    Our girls are hitting puberty six years early

    Oh? What’s his supposed correct age for this?

    I was taught in college that girls reach puberty earlier now than in prior centuries in part because they are exposed to light for more hours per day thanks to electrification, and puberty is in part triggered by an internal clock keeping track of how much light you’ve been exposed to in your lifetime.

    Of course we leaned a lot of shit in college before the internet which turns out to be nonsense now. But I believe exposure to light is more important than we generally recognize. If you trace our evolution back to the beginning, you’ll find light sensitive cells far far earlier than anything involving actual vision.

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      The bigger driver of earlier age of menarche is percent body fat. For example, menarche was in the very early teens in ancient Rome, but it was mid-to-late teens in medieval Europe. The average medieval European girl was malnourished by modern standards. And now, along with better availability of calories, kids also go outside and play far less than they did a generation ago, so they’re less active, hence fatter.

      There’s might also be something in the light-exposure hypothesis, except that age of menarche tends to still be lower nearer the equator than nearer the poles. Artificial lighting, if it were the cause, would have weakened that difference.

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      12 hours ago

      I learned something new today.

      I also did hear that girls go through puberty sooner because girls now are fatter than they used to be due to a number of factors.

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        I always heard it was partly due to all the hormones we put in cows to keep them pregnant, and then we drink the milk.

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          That makes no sense. Hormones in your food will just be broken down in your digestive system.

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        11 hours ago

        Ya, my biology professor had a theory that it was because of estrogen being introduced to the water supply through birth control. After the pill was introduced breast size started increasing and girls started reaching puberty earlier. Makes sense.

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          So! It’s actually kinda crazy how accurate your professor might be. Because progesterone, the chemical in birth control, does indeed break down into estrogen under the right circumstances. The components of broken down progesterone pass through the body via urine, enter the water system, and - this is the important part - is far too small and difficult to be collected or filtered out of the water.

          So people taking birth control have absolutley added an insane amount of estrogen to the water supply. And most tap water now does have low levels of estrogen in it because people have been taking birth control for 60+ years.

          In that same time, the average age of puberty has continued to fall.

          So, it sounds a bit wild, but that theory is far more feasible than most realize.

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            Can estrogen in water become bio-available through drinking it?

            What kind of concentrations are you talking about? There’s possibly a big gap between enough to be detected and enough to affect someone’s hormonal regulation.

            In that same time, the average age of puberty has continued to fall.

            As it did before birth-control pills were in widespread use. And another confounding factor is that modern birth-control pills have much lower doses of hormones than the originals did, so we need to look not only at the rates of usage, but at the amount each pill contains that gets excreted.

            And filtration is not the only water treatment technique. The use of highly reactive treatments such as chorine can break down such chemicals.

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            There’re also other endocrine disrupters in the water such as pfoa/pfos etc. We should absolutely be filtering our tap water or drinking RO water if we can.

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    15 hours ago

    “Senile government official spews nonsense in press conference”

    … and the saddest part is that sentence is not specific enough, there are multiple options to choose from

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    He’s probably mixing up sperm with testosterone level. Somehow the conversation of testosterone levels came up with a group of kids we work with. One of the young adults who is heavily into weight lifting knew his testosterone levels. The 65 year old man in our group had far higher levels. The reason? He nearly died from cancer and is now on hormone therapy. Apparently the levels are set quite high.

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    13 hours ago

    Ok Bob, I’ll need you to successfully wank five times a day for a month.

    Then we’ll talk