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Count Down

How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race

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Count Down

By: Shanna H. Swan
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
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In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human 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 globe—but the story didn’t 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 development—potentially including the increase in gender fluidity—and 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 “staggering in its findings” (Erin Brockovich, The Guardian) and “will serve as an awakening” (The New York Times Book Review). Biological Sciences Physical Illness & Disease Infertility Environment Health Science Biology Genetic disease Medicine Mental Health Human Behavior
Eye-opening Information • Well-documented Research • Consistent Narration • Important Health Insights • Informative Content

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About environmental toxins, especially ubiquitous endocrine disruptive compounds, which are progressively ending our reproductive ability.

Terrifying book.

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Please, please stop using these horrific narrators. I gave up on the audio and bought it in hard copy.

Book is breathtakingly fascinating but the narration is appalling!

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Ok so there’s a ton of information in here and it’s not easy to hear but please do listen and share. I’ve already recommended it to a number of people. I thought I was reasonably knowledgeable on environmental hazards but there is so much more information here! And hold on till the end. It can feel really doom and gloom for a while but there are reasonable and helpful recommendations for what to DO about this crisis (other than panic.) Not just for people trying to conceive, but for everyone who cares about humanity and animal life on earth.

This book is so important!!!

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Imagine being the child in the womb of a mother exposed to harmful chemicals in our daily lives. That child if male has a higher chance of stillbirth and if he makes it out, has a high change of his genitals being forever messed up or testicular cancer, and many other things. That innocent child has been handed a terrible hand of cards in the game of life. Or imagine a future where humans can no longer reproduce by year 2045. Good luck living in retirement when there's no more younger people to keep society working and chugging along. If anything, you reading this, most likely have abnormal hormon levels, effecting your fertility, sex drive, emotions, muscles and fat levels, cognitive abilities and so on. All thanks to toxins found in our everyday environment. Let's change this.

Take this seriously

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Information and studies were presented well by the author but the woman reading the book completely missed the occasional bits of humor and read everything rather flatly, making her sou d very disconnected from the material.

Very well presented information

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