r/science Professor | Medicine 10d ago

Health Ultra-processed foods harm men’s health. They increase weight, disrupt hormones, decrease testosterone, and introduce harmful substances linked to declining sperm quality. They contain industrial and synthetic ingredients. This may be why over the past 50 years, sperm quality has plummeted.

https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2025/not-all-calories-are-equal-ultra-processed-foods-harm-mens-health/
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u/clyypzz 10d ago

This is most likely just one factor of the problem. Others might be a far more sedentary life and work, more pollution of new types such as endocrine disruptores like BPA, PFAS, lead, aluminium, and tons of other stuff plus social factors plus stress from a changing society and so on and so on

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u/S14Ryan 10d ago

I would probably take lead out of your list. Lead contamination and  pollution has dropped significantly in the last 50 years. 

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u/GenderJuicy 8d ago

So you'd obviously pick the area with low crime