Count Down
How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
(Sprache: Englisch)
An urgent, groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing and endangering human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale.
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An urgent, groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing and endangering human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale.
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An urgent, groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing and endangering human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale.
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Chapter 1: Reproductive Shock: Hormonal Havoc in Our Midst 1 Reproductive Shock: Hormonal Havoc in Our Midst The Spermageddon Scare In late July 2017, it seemed as if every media outlet around the globe had become obsessed with the state of human sperm counts. Psychology Today cried, "Going, Going, Gone? Human Sperm Counts Are Plunging," while the BBC declared, "Sperm Count Drop Could Make Humans Extinct," and the Financial Times announced, "?'Urgent Wake-Up Call' for Male Health as Sperm Counts Plummet." A month later, Newsweek published a major cover story on the same subject: "Who's Killing America's Sperm?"
By the end of the year, my scientific paper "Temporal Trends in Sperm Count: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis," which sparked these stories-and hundreds of others around the world-was ranked number 26 among all referenced scientific papers published worldwide, according to Altmetric's 2017 report.
This truly was the drop heard round the world.
These days, the world as we've known it feels as though it's changing at warp speed. The same could be said for the status of the human race. It's not only that sperm counts have plummeted by 50 percent in the last forty years; it's also that this alarming rate of decline could mean the human race will be unable to reproduce itself if the trend continues. As my study collaborator Hagai Levine, MD, asks, "What will happen in the future-will sperm count reach zero? Is there a chance that this decline would lead to extinction of the human species? Given the extinction of multiple species, often associated with man-made environmental disruption, this is certainly possible. Even if there is low probability for such a scenario, given the horrific implications, we have to do our best to prevent it."
This is especially worrisome because the sperm-count decline that's occurring in Western countries is unabating; it's steep, significant, and continuing, with no signs of tapering off. As Danish
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researcher and clinician Niels Skakkebaek, MD, who was the first person to alert the scientific community to the role of environmental factors in sperm decline, said, "It's an inconvenient message, but the species is under threat, and that should be a wake-up call to all of us. If this doesn't change in a generation, it is going to be an enormously different society for our grandchildren and their children." Indeed, if the decline continues at the same rate, by 2050 many couples will need to turn to technology-such as assisted reproduction, frozen embryos, even eggs and sperm that are created from other cells in the laboratory (yes, this is actually being done)-to reproduce.
A Dystopian Future?
Some of what we've been thinking of as fiction, from stories such as The Handmaid's Tale and Children of Men, is rapidly becoming reality. In the winter of 2017, I presented my sperm-decline findings at the One Health, One Planet conference, which focused on the interconnected health of different species on the planet, the damage being inflicted by our mad "industrialization" of the environment, and its devastating effects on frogs, birds, polar bears, and other species. After presenting the results of our analysis, which were shocking enough to the audience, I spoke for the first time about what sperm decline could mean for Homo sapiens. That night, I awoke from a dream, feeling incredibly anxious as I suddenly realized the full implications of the story I'd put together-that given the declines in sperm count and testosterone levels and the increases in hormonally active chemicals that are being spewed into the environ
A Dystopian Future?
Some of what we've been thinking of as fiction, from stories such as The Handmaid's Tale and Children of Men, is rapidly becoming reality. In the winter of 2017, I presented my sperm-decline findings at the One Health, One Planet conference, which focused on the interconnected health of different species on the planet, the damage being inflicted by our mad "industrialization" of the environment, and its devastating effects on frogs, birds, polar bears, and other species. After presenting the results of our analysis, which were shocking enough to the audience, I spoke for the first time about what sperm decline could mean for Homo sapiens. That night, I awoke from a dream, feeling incredibly anxious as I suddenly realized the full implications of the story I'd put together-that given the declines in sperm count and testosterone levels and the increases in hormonally active chemicals that are being spewed into the environ
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Autoren-Porträt von Shanna H. Swan
Shanna H. Swan, PhD, is an award-winning scientist based at Mt. Sinai and one of the leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists in the world. Dr. Swan has published more than 200 scientific papers and has been featured in extensive media coverage around the world. Her appearances include ABC News, NBC Nightly News, 60 Minutes, CBS News, PBS, BBC, PRI Radio, NPR, and The Joe Rogan Experience as well as in leading magazines and newspapers, including Newsweek, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, Time, US News & World Report, The Guardian, Bloomberg News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Daily News (New York), Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Daily Mail (London), New Scientist, Mental Floss, Mother Jones, New Telegraph, Euronews, and the National Post.Stacey Colino is an award-winning writer specializing in health and psychological issues. Her writing has appeared in US News & World Report, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Parade, National Geographic, and more. She is the coauthor of numerous books, including Count Down, Emotional Inflammation, and Disease Proof. Stacey is a lifelong dog lover and has owned three rescue dogs. Follow her on X @ColinoStacey.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shanna H. Swan
- 2021, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16,1 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Scribner
- ISBN-10: 1982113669
- ISBN-13: 9781982113667
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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