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by JoeMattiello 829 days ago
Microplastics. Plastic food containers. Birth control in general and SSRIs and birth control in the water. PFAs. Seed oils. The war on fat and cholesterol in favor of sugars.
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Whats wrong with seed oils? As far as i know, replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats (such as found in seed oil) is only beneficial.
Seed oils generally refers to things like sunflower oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, vegetable oil, etc.

The best mass produced oils are probably olive and avocado.

This video has a pretty good breakdown of the science: https://youtu.be/IDZmXzAMmwI

It's a pretty recent (past 10 years or so?) internet phenomenon to blame a lot of stuff on them with next to zero proof.
I talk about many of these things and get labeled as a "Conspiracy theorist", particularly when you start observing that these are all known endocrine disruptors, that testosterone and sperm quantities are in free-fall among men world wide, and that precocious puberty is becoming normalized in girls simultaneously.

But the moment that you bring up how there might be a environmental/biological component to the extremely rapid increase in LGBT identification, particularly in the youth, they think you're Alex Jones. Sorry, no. I'm simply someone who internalized the message that movies like "Children of Men" were sending.

> testosterone and sperm quantities are in free-fall among men world wide

The problem is that this isn't true once you factor out disease status (such as obesity, which is rising).

I was with you until you started saying that the trend towards LGBT identification wasn't just people's emotions.

People think you're Alex Jones because it's a very, very dumb reach.

Punk wasn't something in the blood.

Recent LGBT craziness is just a trend like any other.

You’ve got to at least consider the effects of pharmaceutical birth control has on society.

If you can’t question things for fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist is a signal to question those things.