[xtinct]

Tree-hugging vegan libs won't reproduce - Good thing !

[rob777]

I am a bit skeptical. Soy is a major staple of the Japanese diet and they have no sperm count problems. I told my wife about this, who is Japanese, and she seemed a bit skeptical as well. Perhaps there are other parts of their diet that counteract the effect.

[mefistofelerevised]

It only takes one. A bbc article I read on the same story said a reduction of 41 percent.

[Catphish]

I wonder if this study was funded by the dairy industry? I drink a glass of vanilla soy milk every night and have made three babies in the past three years, one-year old twins and one on the way! My wife induced me to go mostly veggie and have lost twenty-five pounds. Maybe my sperm count is down but I make up for it (if you know what I mean) thanks to my better health!

[Vaduz]

U.S. researchers= meat ind ad.

[mngran2]

Tree-hugging vegan libs won't reproduce - Good thing !

Doesn't seem to have affected the billions of Asians who eat tofu every day.

[PGR88]

I used to work with married guys at the airport who believed if one stood in front to the plane’s radar during testing, it would lower their sperm count. They tried to get the treatment done every week, before their days off.....

[Mase]

Let's look at some criticisms of this research:

• The study was limited to just 99 people.

• The study was based on recollected intake of soyfoods and not on specific diets containing soyfoods.

• According to Dr. Tammy Hedland, a researcher on male fertility issues, including soy, from the Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology at the University of Colorado: The research did not find a negative relationship between soy and sperm mobility or sperm quality, which are both key factors to fertility. The study also did notdetermine directly what other foods, medications, supplements, existing medical conditions, sexual activities or environmental factors may have directly affected the drop in sperm count.

• Even Dr. Chavarro admits that many East Asian men consume much more soya than the participants in his trial and do not develop fertility problems. He even speculates that his study found a link between soya and low sperm count because many of the participants were overweight or obese. He said: Men with high levels of body fat produce more oestrogen than their slim counterparts.

• Chavarro's study conflicts with the large body of U.S. government and National Institute of Health-sponsored human and primate research, in which controlled amounts of isoflavones from soy were fed and no effect on quantity, quality or motility of sperm were observed. Upon hearing of Chavarro's findings, Dr. Stephen Barnes, a pharmacologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted "This study is the first to find this correlation. The research on soy in men has not found a negative impact on male hormones but rather has suggested a preventive effect in prostate cancer."

  Funny thing research.

[Let's Roll]

Since fewer people is a tree hugger goal, glad to hear they’re doing their part to make that happen.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Hell, I’m no tree hugger, but given my desire to not have any more kids, this sure does make me rethink my aversion to soy.

[SunkenCiv]

Franks and Beans ping.