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Do Phytoestrogens make men impotent?

By Armando Counrrad
Version 5.0, 2004

If we consider sexual activity and sexual satisfaction as the primary meaning does providing aspects in human life, it follows that sexual enhancement has a philosophical dimension. I consider this mathetically evident, as more sexual activity and more sexual satisfaction can just be equaled with more meaning (more sense from more sensation).

A view that ultimately answers the question " why are we living for? " with the answer " To pursue sexual excitement! " is the only one that doesn't have to draw the purpose of an individual life from outside the individuals life, and at the same time defines " the pursuit of happiness " in clear biological and scientific terms.

Sexual enhancement, there for, is the most clearly defined practical agenda we can establish for our daily lives. We may pursuit professional work, have a job to earn more, prepare our daily meals, and learn on foreign language. The ultimate purpose for all these activities, and the motivation that keeps us going for every-day tasks, is, however, that they will, sooner or later, improve our chances to climax in sexual excitement. A our capabilities to experience sexual excitement and satisfaction decline (as an effect of age, or of sudden physical degeneration through an accident or through disease), the meaning of all other aspects of life diminishes.

A person in his youth and at a high level of physiosychological homeostasis may get a long just fine without sexual enhancement. His problems are more related to look for sexual outlets (other than masturbation). But for an older person who may have succeeded to organize access to sexual partners that match his preferences but has a decreased capability for making use of the opportunities thus generated, the problem shifts from one of external factors to one of internal ones: how to modify ur body chemistry so that your levels of sexual function and sexual satisfaction will be optimal, or orpimal again. Welcome to the world of sexual enhancement! This is the most relevant practical topic ypu could possibly be concerned with. But this domain is just one out of about 200 I have got to summarize my investigation into improving sexual function and sexual satisfaction through pharmacological, nutritional, behavioral, and cognitive intervention.
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Phytoestrogens, together with synthetic substances released into the environment, are grouped together as environmental estrogens. While phytoestrogens have been around longer than mankind, the awareness for environmental estrogens, including phytoestrobgens, is a rather new phenomenon. Attention was brought to environmental estrogens by biologists who noticed that the mails of a number of species living in a highly polluted environment experienced a marked decline in fertility as well as a level of develoement of the primary sex organs.

Please note that " estrogens " is a term that goups together a range of natural and artificial hormones that have a feminizing effect. The human primary estrogen is estradiol. Estrogens in plasental mamals couse " estrus ", wich is the scientific term for "heat".

Androgens are so-called male sex hormones. The primary androgen is testosterone, that some of each derivates, such as dehidrotestosterone, also are grouped under the androgen umbrella (please note that estradiol is also a testosterone derivate, though certainly not an endrogen, by means of the enzyme aromatase, the body also converts testosterone into estradiol). There is plenty of evidence that environmental estrogens are harming the males of some species, and some scientists suspect that they are responsible, too, for the declined sperm counts of human males in the Western World.

While synthetic environmental estrogens have had a massive degenerative effect on the males of species living in a highly polluted environment, the effect of phytoestrogens has been rather subtle. However, the negative impact on male sexual functin is nevertheless measurable.

Red clover, for example, contains comparatively strong phytoestrogens. As cattle farmers have learned from experiences, and as has been proven by science, herds that are feed on red clover fields will experience a significant decline in fertility because the phytoestrogens of the red clover interfere with the hormonal balance of the bulls.

Plant oestrogens; the cause of decreased fertility in cows

Authors: Kallela K. Heinonen K. Saloniemei H
Published In: Nord Vet Med, 36 (3-4) 124-9 1984

During the stall feeding period 1982-1983, it was established that serious fertility disturbances, indicating Oestrogenic estimulation, has occurred in a herd of cattle in an area supported by the college of Veterinary Medicine's Ambulatory Clinic. Whilst invistigating the cause of these disturbances it was proven that the sillage (liquide chromatograph examination) and the oestrogenic stregnth (bioessay) were cinsiderably great. When feeding with the fodden was subsequently discontinued the disturbances ceased to occur and the cows became pregnant more easily. On the bases of the aforementioned incidences it was ascertained that plant oestrogens were almost certainely the cause of the fertility disturbances.

In nature such things don't happen accidentaly but are a result of evolution and natural selection. Obviousely containing Phytoestrogens is a, however slight, advantageous mmutation over the absence of phytoestrogens as phytoestrogens somehow keep the population of prediators, in this case mammalian herbivores, at bay. In priciple, it is the same mechanism that has made many plant outright poisonous, and the majority of the rest unfit for human consumption. Therefor, phytoestrogens are an intended (by nature) interruption to the hormonal balance of the males of herbivorous species.

Ofcourse, the attempt of phytoestrogenous plants to disrupt the procreation of mankind has, by and large, been a failure. Male mammals, including humans, have long adopted to the fast that a large number of foods contain phytoestrogens. Evolution, afterall, is a game not just of mutation, but one of mutation and adoptation.

Nevertheless, we (the human males) haven't adopted completely to the prsence of phytoestrogens in plants, and they still exert some negative influence in male sexual function.

Take, for example, a diet in which meat is replaced by ground and baked soybeans, a phytoestrogenic agricultural plant widely consumed in asia.