Dr Adrian Cois (MD/MBBS) Profile picture
Physician | EM | Former Sports Performance Specialist | 🇦🇺in🇺🇸 | Dad - 2 Boys | Universal Healthcare | Climate Change | Tweets are my own
Nov 29, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
Don't eat soy foods if you want to have better fertility...

All those #vegan folks out there are in trouble.

The question is roughly - “how does eating soy/isoflavone-containing foods affect male fertility?”. A little background on what makes men infertile - at a high level - sperm concentration, motility, and morphology.
doi.org/10.4103%2F0974…
Mar 30, 2022 15 tweets 4 min read
A co-worker of mine said to me the other day “I’m vegan man, I need to be careful about my #Protein” This in the context of wanting to get some #pipes. Got me thinking about how #vegan & #plantbased compare with omnivorous diets for building muscle/strength.

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A paper published in 2021, by Victoria Hevia-Larrain and Hamilton Roschel. Here they sought out to assess the effect of dietary protein source on changes in muscle mass/strength.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33599941/

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Jan 9, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
Came across this graph and go to thinking about dietary guidelines. Did the low fat recommendations really increase the rates of obesity? Or is it something else?

peperperspective.com/2018/01/25/imp…
Image @IKnowNutrition did a truly excellent breakdown of what has change since the 1970s. Notably the increase in daily calories on average ≈370/day!

nutritionasiknowit.com/blog/2018/8/1/…
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