The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts
The ongoing global drop in male fertility may be associated with saturated fat intake and lack of sufficient fruits and vegetables.
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Why is high dietary intake of saturated fat associated with reduced semen quality? What’s the connection? Sex steroid hormones in meat, eggs, and dairy may help explain the link between saturated fat intake and declining sperm counts. That’s the subject of my next video, Dairy Estrogen and Male Fertility.
More on male infertility in my videos Fukushima and Radioactivity in Seafood ( and Male Fertility and Diet (
Diet also has a role to play in sexual dysfunction:
• Survival of the Firmest: Erectile Dysfunction and Death (
• Cholesterol and Female Sexual Dysfunction (
• Pistachio Nuts for Erectile Dysfunction (
• BPA Plastic and Male Sexual Dysfunction (
• 50 Shades of Greens (
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