Show 1251: How Chemicals Are Threatening Our Health and Fertility

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Kids & Family

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sperm counts have been falling for decades. In fact, they’re down 50 percent over the last four decades. Should we worry about young men’s health and fertility? How can we explain this trend? Threats to Health and Fertility: Sperm counts are not alone in their decline. Men’s levels of testosterone have also been dropping steadily, […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com
0:14.0	We're surrounded by chemicals that mimic our hormones.
0:18.0	Are these endocrine disruptors lowering our fertility?
0:22.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Dr. Shana Swan is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists.
0:40.0	Her latest book is, Count Down how our modern world is threatening sperm counts,
0:46.1	altering male and female reproductive development,
0:49.3	and imperiling the human race.
0:51.8	What chemicals are responsible?
0:54.3	Some are known as forever chemicals
0:57.0	because they linger in the environment for so long.
1:00.4	Is there anything we can do in our personal lives to counteract this danger?
1:05.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, how plastics and other chemicals are threatening our health and our fertility.
1:13.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:17.0	COVID-19 cases have been falling in the U.S.
1:20.0	But climbing in a number of European countries.
1:23.0	Experts have been struggling to understand what drives the infection to peak,
1:28.0	subside, and peak again.
1:30.0	At this time, COVID-19 infections in Europe appear to be in a third wave,
1:35.0	although it's breaking unevenly across the continent.
1:39.0	Half of Italy is under a strict new lockdown.
1:42.0	France is experiencing the highest level of new
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