Count down : how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race

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Count down : how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race

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how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race

Statement of responsibility

Shanna H. Swan, PhD with Stacey Colino

Creator

• trueSwan, Shanna H

Contributor

• Colino, Stacey

Author

• Colino, Stacey
• trueSwan, Shanna H

Subject

• Male reproductive health
• trueMen -- Sexual behavior
• trueFertility
• Women -- Sexual behavior
• Nonfiction
• Generative organs, Female
• trueHuman reproduction

Language

eng

Summary

In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe, but the story didn't end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one. How and why could this happen? What is hijacking our fertility and our health? Count Down unpacks these questions, revealing what Swan and other researchers have learned about how both lifestyle and chemical exposures are affecting our fertility, sexual development, potentially including the increase in gender fluidity--and general health as a species. Engagingly explaining the science and repercussions of these worldwide threats and providing simple and practical guidelines for effectively avoiding chemical goods (from water bottles to shaving cream) both as individuals and societies, Count Down is at once an urgent wake-up call, an illuminating read, and a vital tool for the protection of our future

Dewey number

612.6

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography