Ep. 972: Shanna Swan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Shanna H. Swan, PhD, a scientist based at Mt. Sinai and one of the leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists in the world. Swan has published more than 200 scientific papers and has been featured in extensive media coverage around the world.
The topic is her book Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Declining Sperm Counts
- Reproductive Health Issues
- Causes of Low Sperm Count
- Birth Control and Anti Depressant
- Estrogen's Effects on the Female Body
- Plastic Bottles and Low Testosterone
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | I got an email and somebody said, |
| 0:36.7 | do you want to talk to this author about this subject? |
| 0:41.9 | So what is this subject? |
| 0:44.7 | Sperm count reduction. |
| 0:47.0 | The argument that perhaps humanity is on its way to extinction because good old Mr. sperm is disappearing. |
| 0:57.5 | Now, we all like to think it's not for us and we're all good and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:03.6 | But there is a problem. |
| 1:05.3 | There's a big problem. |
| 1:06.9 | And we really do need to consider that if things don't turn around, wow, maybe we don't make it. |
| 1:16.2 | We go by the way of the dinosaur, but just in a different way. |
| 1:21.1 | My guest today, Shauna Swan dives deep in her new book, Countdown, |
| 1:26.0 | how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering |
| 1:29.9 | male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race. |
| 1:35.6 | That is daunting. |
| 1:39.1 | But you know what? |
| 1:39.8 | This is a fun conversation. |
| 1:41.1 | I enjoy the deep dive into something like this. |
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