Dear Soy: leave my sperm count alone!

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I’m having steak pork* tonight, then.

Eating half a serving of food a day lowers concentrations and may play a role in male infertility, particularly in obese , researchers report.

The reason for this relationship between soy and sperm count isn’t clear. However, researchers speculate that soy increases activity, which may have a negative affect on sperm production and also interfere with other hormonal signals.

And this is one more reason why I will never be a vegetarian. Beef is life!

Update: * close enough…

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The pill as abortafacient

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It turns out that — that ubiquitous method — is responsible for a potentially massive number of pregnancy terminations every year.

And yes, I realize that the point of taking the pill is, in most cases, to avoid getting pregnant. That doesn’t change the fact that a potentially massive number of implantations are being prevented, in essence aborting perhaps millions of unborn children at the very earliest stages of development.

Women on BCPs [birth control pills] have 28-day cycles and thus have 13 cycles/year (365/28 = 13.3).

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute 10,410,000 U.S. women are current pill users, a figure that constitutes 26.9% of all those using some method of .

Gambrell notes that there is a 14% breakthrough ovulation rate in females taking the 50 microgram pills (10,410,000 x .14 = 1,457,400 s each cycle). (1)

1,457,400 x 13 cycles/year = 18,946,200 possible exposures to each year.

Since the normal fecundity rate (chance of pregnancy without using contraceptives) for the average couple is 20%, and if we were to suppose that the change cut down the reaching the by 50% (a very generous allowance), that means that there would be 20% x 50% x 18,946,200= 1,894,620 fertilized ovums that would have otherwise implanted in the walls of the .

Of this number, the accepted rate for “pill pregnancies” is 3-5 per 100 years i.e 3%-5%. (2)

This means that 95-97% of these babies were prevented from implanting in the lining of the womb because of the oral contraceptive’s thinning of the endometrium (#3 above).

In other words, approximately 1,800,000 (95% x 1,894,620) babies die every year through the use of oral contraceptives.

According to the (), there were 854,122 legally induced s in the US in 2003.

Therefore the ratio between BCP abortion vs. conventional abortions is 2.2:1.  This means that for every  ONE women aborting through conventional means in the U.S., more than TWO women are aborting through the use of oral contraceptives.

Culture of death, indeed. God help us.

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