A professor of environmental Medicine has warned that human-made chemicals, environmental hormones, and plastic particles are seriously hurting human fertility, and that sterility may become common by 2045.
Futurism reports that Professor Shanna Swan, an environmental medicine and public health scientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, published a study in 2017 reporting that “sperm counts in Western countries Sperm counts in men have declined by more than 50 percent over the past four decades.” Last month, she released her new book Count Down, which continues to explore the reasons for the loss of human fertility.
Professor Swan says, “The general decline in fertility among people in civilized societies is generally thought to be the result of lifestyle changes, but I think reproductively harmful chemicals play a more major causal role.”
In her report Human Reproduction Update, published in 2017, she pointed out that the concentration of sperm in Western men fell from 99 million per milliliter (metric handful, CC) in 1973 to 47.1 million per milliliter in 2011, which means that the number of male sperm in Western countries (such as Australia) has fallen sharply by 53.4 percent, and the same has happened in New Zealand, North America and Europe.
Swan found that the sperm count of Western men has dropped by half in 50 years. (Photo/Shanna Swan)
According to Swan, the main cause is chemical disruptors, such as phthalates (PAEs) used in the manufacture of plastics, which are present in almost every human body because we use soft plastics in Food production, processing and packaging.
She continued, “Phthalates lower testosterone and reduce sperm counts, and it can also have adverse effects on women, including reduced libido, premature ovarian failure, and the risk of premature birth and miscarriage.”
She warned that similar chemical pollutants include polytetrafluoroethylene, bisphenol A and others, and that if the chemical pollution situation does not change, the world will be completely sterile by 2045. The film “Children of Men” (originally titled Children of Men, released in 2006) may not be a Science Fiction film, but more of a documentary.
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