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Can you explain when the introduction of beer suddenly caused the crash in male fertility? As opposed to it being related to the huge push towards xenoestrogens? It’s cute to find a masculine form of victim blaming but there is literally zero evidence to back this up. You might as well blame ownership of pickup trucks for male fertility crashing. This is terribly hollow and baseless.

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Beer contains magnitudes more phytoestrogens than soy.

I do not understand how soy is then to blame for phytoestrogen content when people consume more beer in their life than soy products.

That is the only reason why I mentioned beer. I do not believe phytoestrogens have any effect on male hormones.

It's quite known that getting obese has a massive effect on male hormones. The mehanistic/metabolism effect is known. We know why obese men become infertile, why they grow breasts (gynecomastia) and all the other effects of obesity.

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