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The human body after ~ two decades of artificial hormones can struggle though.

• _heimdall 2y ago
  For sure. The human body after decades of low level environmental toxins can also struggle. I raise this only as personal guess and don't have data to support it, but I very much expect that issues often seen today with what are referred to as "geriatric pregnancies" are related more to the consistent drip of toxins in our water, air, and foods rather than an issue driven only by aging.
  • mensetmanusman 2y ago
    Interesting thought. Would it require matrix-level test tube humans to decouple the effects of age from the world environment everyone share? Humans will probably always deal with air issues from lightning induced fires though. I guess if we look at maternal deaths versus time for healthy BMI folks from the ages of 20-21 over the last century we could gather some insight.
    • _heimdall 2y ago
      Well that's really why there isn't solid data for it, how do you have a control group when the problem is universal? Historical data may help a bit, though I expect it'd still be really hard to narrow down enough factors to get anything meaningful out of it. There are so many environmental changes from our food, what's in our water, pladtic and chemical uses in everyday products, radio frequencies we're exposed to, etc.