Dr. Shanna Swan: "Sperm and Our Future"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we meet with one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, Dr. Shanna Swan.
Dr. Swan discusses how chemicals in our environment threaten human hormones, male sperm count, and ultimately, human reproduction. How do endocrine-disrupting hormones disrupt pregnancy? Further, she explains "The 1% Effect," which accounts for the 1 percent annual decrease in human fertility and related functions.
To combat the urgent threats facing human reproduction, Dr. Swan offers recommendations about how we can avoid harmful chemicals — and live healthier lives.
About Shanna Swan
Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists. She is Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City where is also a member of the Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures and the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:15.8 | That's me. |
| 0:17.4 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, and our society. |
| 0:26.7 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society |
| 0:39.4 | and as individuals. |
| 0:42.3 | Today, my guest is Dr. Shauna Swan. |
| 0:45.5 | She is a world-leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist, focusing on how endocrine |
| 0:53.1 | disrupting-disrupting chemicals and other environmental exposures |
| 0:57.2 | affect reproductive health and children's neurodevelopment. |
| 1:02.0 | Shauna just wrote a book in 2021 called Countdown, How Our Modern World is Threatening |
| 1:07.8 | Sperm Counts, altering male and female reproductive development, |
| 1:12.3 | and imperiling the future of the human race. |
| 1:15.3 | She teaches at the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. |
| 1:21.1 | She's published over 200 scientific papers, various other book chapters. |
| 1:25.9 | A big landmark study was the temporal trends in sperm count, |
| 1:29.8 | a systematic review and metaggression analysis, which was one of the most widely cited |
| 1:35.7 | scientific papers in 2017. Today we're going to talk about a sperm count decline in humans |
| 1:43.3 | and other species. |
| 1:46.6 | What are endocrine disruptors? |
| 1:48.0 | And why are they important? |
| 1:56.8 | And what can we do about plastics from a government regulation behavior change standpoint and also in our own lives? |
| 1:57.9 | Thank you. Thank you. |
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