@Babygravy9 - RAW EGG NATIONALIST

Stress during pregnancy is a significant cause of premature births and can also significantly skew the sex ratio towards female births. This is one of the reasons why the widespread adoption of plant-based diets is bad news. I discuss this in The Eggs Benedict Option. 👇

@T3MaxxiAlt - T3Uncoupled

The stress from the 9/11 attacks caused a nationwide increase in the deaths of male fetuses relative to female, where the ratio of births kept falling three months after the attacks. https://t.co/SLJmsefZdt

@Babygravy9 - RAW EGG NATIONALIST

A study from 2000 looked at six thousand pregnant women and found that a considerably smaller number of boys were born to vegetarian mothers. Vegetarian women were 23% less likely to have male babies than mothers on an omnivorous diet. https://t.co/Sk4ytNFjzK

@Babygravy9 - RAW EGG NATIONALIST

Why? This is almost certainly due to the added stress that not eating animal products causes the mother's body (i.e. deficiencies of key nutrients, vits and mins). This threatens the viability of the fetus and can cause premature births (see above) or even spontaneous abortion.

@Babygravy9 - RAW EGG NATIONALIST

But why do boys suffer most? This isn't clear, but the general evidence, including the effects of 9/11 as mentioned above, suggests that male fetuses are more susceptible to maternal stress during pregnancy. https://t.co/1Fps27UgF9

@Babygravy9 - RAW EGG NATIONALIST

In evolutionary terms, maternal stress would likely have been caused by scarcity and conflict. Perhaps the female body evolved mechanisms to avoid bringing more men into the world under such circumstances? Or it could simply be that having a male child is more metabolically expensive than having a female child.