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This is kind of sobering. Standard male levels of testosterone are between 3-7 ng/mL. Standard female levels of testosterone are between 0.1-0.7 ng/mL. And y
by mchannon 3y ago
This is kind of sobering.
Standard male levels of testosterone are between 3-7 ng/mL.
Standard female levels of testosterone are between 0.1-0.7 ng/mL.
And you're over 10 ng/mL of this crap?
Even if this stuff is a fraction as bioactive as testosterone, having more of it might explain a few societal health trends.
- supportengineer 3y agoAre you saying that if you have low testosterone, you should get this test?
- mchannon 3y agoNot sure what I'm saying. Correlation v. causation isn't all that well known here.
- mdrew 3y agoWow I hadn't thought about that. Really puts it into perspective.
- ok123456 3y agoGuess I need to up the dose.
- veave 3y agopfas are estrogenic. And yes, it explains a few things.
- HlessClaudesman 3y agoWhat does it explain?
- mtrpcic 3y agoIt explains nothing, anything in this thread will be pure conjecture unless there are peer reviewed studies that indicate otherwise.
- brewdad 3y agoThis is the internet. If we can't offer up unsubstantiated conjecture, what are we even doing here? /s
- ethanbond 3y agoWe know that PFAS poisoning reduces sexual dimorphism (the difference between male and female physicality) and in animal studies it even affects dimorphic behavior. I.e. male and female animals in most species behave differently from each other, and when poisoned, they behave more similarly to each other. The bush that people are beating around is the question as to whether this stuff is affecting sexual expression of humans en masse.
- Eigenstate 3y agoThat's hardly an apples to apples comparison. A typical American has around 100 ng/mL selenium in their blood. By your logic, that's a toxic heavy metal that's ten times as bad as PFAS in terms of concentration. It's actually an essential cofactor in many biological processes. I'm not implying PFAS is harmless, but the dose makes the poison and it depends what biological processes are being interfered with.