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Your sperm does reset ever 75 days. Depending on the problem, it may be fixable. Exercise and raising testosterone will have a meaningful effect. Also check the various products you are using for endocrine disruptors and also you can go organic in terms of food (avoids pesticides, which are suspected of playing a role.)

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I am not a man, but this reminds me of a time years ago when I started to have allergic reactions to things several times a day. My allergist put me on a strict elimination diet of triggers. I could only use unscented products for bathing and laundry, organic food only, and I even had to get rid of my teflon pans and use only stainless steel or cast iron. It sucked but it did seem to help, maybe you could try something like that too.

I got rid of my teflon, but I switched to galvanized copper. Its easy to clean.

What's the brand you bought?

I really didn't consider brand. I thought it would be easy enough to determine a copper pan versus a teflon or iron pan that branding wouldn't offer any advantages.

I had some relatively severe allergic reactions to (apparently) enzymes in laundry detergent, once we stopped that it went away, and doesn't seem to come back even with minor enzyme encounters.

Is there any anecdotes or data about the impact of sitting too much? And screen time?

Well if you spend too much time sitting and don't reduce your calorie intake to match, you get fat. Being fat generally does bad things to your health, and one known example of that is that being fat reduces your fertility.

Being fat correlates with reduced fertility. It may ultimately be caused by whatever thing that results in reduced fertility, but there is no evidence of being fat causing reduced fertility.

Organic foods still use pesticides, sometimes even chemically identical ones to non organic, just sourced via allowed methods.

> Exercise and raising testosterone will have a meaningful effect.

To be completely clear: Taking testosterone will actually worsen fertility. TRT will severely reduce fertility.

Lifestyle changes that improve testosterone (diet, exercise, physical activity of any kind) are correlated with increased fertility though.

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