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Thanks!

> diet, semen quality, reproductive hormones, and lifestyle factors

So it doesn't look like body fat or weight was factored in, unless they were lumped under "lifestyle factors" for some reason.

It should also be noted that they're confounding "Western" and "high fat". High fat diets are actually great for hormone production: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271636/




Western diets are also high sugar. The fat isn't particularly high compared to say Paleo or other ancestral approaches. Though the quality/types/processing of the fats is pretty unnatural in a typical western diet.




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