From a forum I haven't drawn from yet -- but they're a very interesting, smart group of guys:

At any given time I have half a dozen articles half way done. Right now I'm working on one tentatively entitled "Peak Testosterone" about the effects of petrochemicals on hormone levels in men. I'm also trying to make some points in the article about the psychological effects of being a cog in a corporate machine, basically my point is it demasculinizes you.

This issue has actually been a concern of mine since I was 16 when for my audio-video class I did a PSA entitled "Xenoestrogens: We're Half the Men We Used to Be." In short, there are tons of chemicals in the environment that mimic estrogen, particularly in plastics. This is why sperm counts in AMerican men are now 50% of what they were in 1930, while testosterone levels have fallen over 30% in 20 years. (Links not handy, you'll just have to trust me on these.)

Well here is some scary stuff about the effect of cell phones. I have never owned one and have been ideologically against them since Day 1. I didn't need a freaking cell phone back in 1998. I was perefectly happy w/o one then and see no reason why I can't be perefectly happy w/o one today. In my mind it's just another $50 bucks a month I'd be handy over to "Whitey" aka "The Man."  (And resource wars are fought in the Congo for the minerals to make the cell phones but that's another story all together:http://www.alternet.org/story/41477/)

Anyhoo, my intuition about these things has been dead on all along. Check out what I found today from Charles Polilquin. The name is not familar to most of you. He's a world class trainer, the type you can only go to if you make as much as professional athlete. I've been reading his articles since the mid-1990s and it's amazing his body of knowledge. On cell phones (androgens = male hormones):


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I've been doing this for 26 years, and we know for a fact that Testosterone levels are 30% lower than they were 20 years ago for any age group. And that study is five years old! I'd say that since 9/11 it's gotten worse.

One thing that we know is that we have 100 times more stress than our grandfathers. One study showed that just wearing your cell phone on your hip lowers androgen levels by 31% due to what's probably a combination of stress and low-level radiation... and cell phones weren't as popular when that study came out.

A few months ago I dropped having a cell phone. People can get a hold of me through email or by calling my office. My stress levels probably went down by 50%.

Source: http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1257805

Where's Old Horseman? My guess is he doesn't have a cell phone!