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Epigenetics May Be The Underlying Cause For Male Infertility

I wrote a long time ago about epigenetics. Here’s an article from today’s Science Daily regarding epigenetics and male infertility.
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) suggest epigenetics, or the way DNA is processed and expressed, may be the underlying cause for male infertility.
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Attention is now focused on epigenetic changes. Epigenetic [...]

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How Sugar Affects Your Sex Hormones

Here is yet another way that too much sugar in the diet causes disease: Too Much Sugar Turns Off Gene That Controls Effects Of Sex Steroids
Glucose and fructose are metabolized in the liver. When there’s too much sugar in the diet, the liver converts it to lipid. Using a mouse model and human liver cell [...]

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Ditch the Soy - It’s Really Not Good For You

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A few weekso ago, New Scientist reported that Eating soya could slash men’s sperm count. I posted a link to an article a long time ago that declared a Soy-cancer warning.
Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer sperm than those who do not consume [...]

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Soy and Sperm

A week or so ago, New Scientist reported that Eating soya could slash men’s sperm count. I posted a link to an article a long time ago that declared a Soy-cancer warning.
Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer sperm than those who do not consume such foods, [...]

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