We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
Who knows, but that's enough for me to think, all right, we probably need to study in humans with this, although I don't know if it'll ever be done. But I'm not going to wear polyester underwear and most women that I know wear wear underwear with some sort of polyester ingredient in it.
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if wearing polyester underwear does this to your genitals, what might wearing what might sleeping in polyester sheets be doing to other hormones in your body? I don't think we fully understand what's going on there, and I just think cotton sheets are much more comfortable.
in experiments in humans when polyester shorts and underwear are wrapped around the testicles decreased fertility decreased male hormones and decreased sperm production occurs in humans