[Texan5]

Being from a family of rural health nuts, except for a brief time consuming dorm-type food in my college years, I’ve eaten only natural and unprocessed meat and veggies-I’ve read/heard about several substances said to decrease male fertility, even in small amounts-estrogen, soy and unhealthy diet.

T5’sguy dines on the same organic stuff I do, we both have physical jobs and work out at his place or mine 3-4 times per week-neither of us take any drugs at all, prescription or illicit-he fathered a couple of cubs before he was 30 with the 1st wife, and another one when he was over 50 with the 2nd. I’d be willing to bet if I were still fertile, he would be able to father one with me.

He has shown me several articles about the decrease in male fertility and potency from too much soy protein-soy is good for women, not men-look at the labels on processed food-that s*** is in much of the packaged food people eat. Pres Trump is said to not take drugs, and he was 60 when Barron was born...

As another poster pointed out, we are a nation with too many fatasses-that is detrimental to fertility, too, so maybe it is a combination of all those things-it appears that you really are what you eat...

[Lorianne]

I wonder about that.
They eat a lot of soybeans and soy based products in China and Japan and other Asian countries and I have never heard that the men there suffer from infertility or low sperm counts.

[Verginius Rufus]

My Revolutionary War ancestor had 21 children by three wives--the youngest child was born when he was 73. Probably no soy in his diet. According to the inventory of his estate, he had cows, sheep, hogs, geese, bees, and a still. Living in the land of milk and honey...and whiskey.

Remarkably for that era, 18 of his children lived to adulthood.