Count Down

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781982113674 Author(s): Shanna H. Swan Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2022 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 304

Description: In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, âdisturbing, empowering, and essentialâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changingâand endangeringâhuman sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.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 globeâbut the story didnât 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 developmentâpotentially including the increase in gender fluidityâand 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 âstaggering in its findingsâ (Erin Brockovich, The Guardian) and âwill serve as an awakeningâ (The New York Times Book Review).

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