can water cause infertility in men?

Question

i herd recently that due to the pill being used lots of estrogen is being passed out in urine and not being fillterd out of the water supply. And as a result men drinking water with elevated levels of estrogen become infertile. is this true or just a load of s**t?

Answer 1

Until more research is posted on this, I would not worry about it at all. ...if it did happen, like the person below said, you would not be the only person being effected!

Answer 2

There is an issue with contaminants in the water supply and its connection to male factor infertility, yes, but it has little to do with birth control pills (or other hormonal birth control) and estrogen passed in women's urine. The reports are that the water supplies (in the US as well as in other countries) are rife with synthetic hormones, often from a range of pharmaceutical products. It is a well established and well known fact that sperm counts have been steadily declining over the past 30 years or so, and there has also been an increase in issues relating to abnormal sperm shape, motility, etc. It is suspected by many that water contaminants are part of the problem. I believe that some forms of cancer have also been linked to these synthetic estrogens (which I've also seen referred to as "estrogen imitators," in that they mimic estrogen once they enter your system, and, consequently, wreak havoc.

Here's a link to a simple google search on the issue, with some of the articles you'll find. What will come of all this, who knows. But it stands to reason that the high levels of toxic substances with which we come into daily contact cannot be good for us, or for our reproductive systems.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2005-44,SUNA:en&q=estrogen+water+supply+men+fertility

Answer 3

There is truth to contaniments of pharmeceuticals getting into water supply but also in the foods we eat. Just about everything. Our government is not regulating these huge companies for the sake of the people but for the money they can make. The world is developing stronger strains of bacteria and germs because of the mutations that occur. Infertility is just a side effect from encountering one of those strains and having subdued it but not cured it.

Answer 4

Water is good for you. Drinking a woman's urine is not!

If you are worried about hormones, the hormones used in meat animals is a very real cause for concern I have never heard any studies on relative fertility, but longtime vegetarians almost never have erectile dysfunction. It's not clear yet whether that is because of hormones in meat, too much fat clogging the blood vessels going into the penis, or meat-eaters having much higher rates of hypertension and other libido-destroying diseases. But it is clear that longtime vegetarians are better lovers.

So drink the water and skip the Big Mac, and you'll be doing the right thing for your sexual health.

Answer 5

If were it true then everyman in the world have been infertile and could not give birth to babies..it is not scientifically true at all..but taking too much water is needless ..nothing too much is not too well to our body..however...he have to drink adequate pure water although..

Answer 6

That sounds like a huge load of malarkey, as what study would discover that?

Answer 7

no