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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Food: wash all of your fruits and vegetables. This will take off fertility-reducing chemicals applied. Get USDA organic meat so you don't ingest estrogen-laced meat. Fast. People who fasted lowered their concentration of fertility-reducing chemicals by 80-90%. Yes, they are infecting all of our food with population-reducing chemicals. So that's how you protect yourself as best as you can. As a side note, when animal mothers (e.g. frogs, mice, and turtles) were placed in environments with high percentages of plastics and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals, their children turned homosexual and/or androgyneous. Some had testes with eggs in them. Male turtles start humping other male turtles (how familiar!). Female frogs and fish became masculinized (sound similar to our women?). Other pesticides in the environment made male and female fish not want to mate with one another. They also decreased both sexes' fertility (rise of asexuality, incels). Drug-polluted rivers create intersex fish; minnows exposed to antidepressants spend their blissful lives swimming eternally towards the sun until they get eaten, and also sometimes experience autism-like symptoms (transsexuals, autism). Holy cow, that's a lot of diversity! I have concluded that plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals have continually homosexualized our species since their rise after WW2. They have disrupted development in utero and led to massive sexual and evolutionary dysfunction. An urgent examination of a global problem that requires vastly more attention than it currently receives.

When Dent began work on Countdown in 1992, she had just started working for the Oxford University Press on producing English dictionaries, having previously worked on bilingual dictionaries. [6] Some of the reasons for fertility issues stem from people have children at older ages. While this unfortunately affects women more, men also have declining fertility as they age. The other main reason highlighted in the book was the presence of endocrine disruptors, which have not been thoroughly regulated and affect many populations- not just human ones. Regulation of the chemical industry then appears to be more serious than previously thought and many common chemicals may be culprits from cosmetics to pesticides to air fresheners. The problem is that it seems nearly impossible to avoid all of them!Oppenheimer, Jeni (8 June 2009). "Channel 4's Countdown supplies Susie Dent with 'extra ideas' via earpiece". The Telegraph . Retrieved 25 February 2014. You must work out. Working out increases testosterone and sperm. Working out makes you feel like a Grecian god. Men who exercise 7 hours per week have 43% higher sperm concentrations than those who do not work out.

In 2019, Dent launched the gold award podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple, co-hosted with her friend Gyles Brandreth [13] and have followed up with their live theatre stage residencies using the same formula as their podcast. [14] Susie Dent (born 1964) [1] [2] is an English lexicographer, etymologist, and media personality. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post- watershed comedy version of the show.

Extremely important intervention in a disturbing, saddeningly neglected public health crisis. The effects of endocrine disruptors on reproductive health, sexual development, sexual behavior, mental health, and beyond for both animal and human species are extensive, disturbing, and directly tied to the profit-seeking behavior of corporations (and government enablers). Countdown is a clarion call for greater public awareness of the effects these ubiquitous chemicals as well as stringent regulation and reduction of the environmental presence of these substances found in plastic and metal containers, cosmetics, hygiene products (e.g. deodorants), and beyond for the sake of human reproductive health. The author is an endocrinologist with decades of research experience, using her own studies as part of the body of support for her argument. Who is responsible for the spread of these endocrine disruptors? Corporations (and the governments that “regulate” them). Swan details the history of industrial research and development of chemicals for the sake of cheapening production costs as well as industry’s awareness of their hazards. As an example, even in the 1930s it was observed by scientists that BPAs mimic estrogen. Swan offers numerous other examples highlighting the knowledge corporations had of the dangers of these chemicals, long before broader public awareness, as well as the deceptions and manipulations they have taken to keep profit margins high at the expense of public reproductive health. Swan gives the example of an endocrine disrupting chemical that was banned from an industrial process for its effects…only to be replaced by a chemical that had the exact same effects. Efforts to regulate and tamp down the usage and spread of these chemicals have met with stiff resistance due to intense lobbying as well as misinformation campaigns by these bad actors. Two things annoy me: restaurant food is the worst, I get that, but ALL restaurant food? Fast food and five star restaurants? I need more information on that one. The book does go into great detail - typically in the form of streams of statistics and numbers. I don't know if it's possible to write a book like this without going into statistics, but it became boring and bland; I ended up skipping some of the numbers because, ultimately, it is meaningless to me and doesn't paint a vivid picture of what is actually happening.

Shahid, Sharnaz (14 October 2020). "Countdown's Susie Dent gives rare insight into home life with daughters". Hello! . Retrieved 6 February 2021. I was much expecting a scary downhill line chart of how our sperms have been going down year after year in the past century. None was in the book. Numerically speaking, I could only find 1 paragraph describing WHO estimates of our sperm count threshold had been reduced.In Dictionary Corner with Countdown's Susie Dent, the 'dominatrix' of words". Radio Times. 8 November 2016. Count Down How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race Swan also does an exploration of the demographic effects of declining fertility-- how the young generally support the elderly and the implications this has for the future. The scary part is that this topic isn't a hypothetical- it is already happening in some places and is starting to impact societies in others. How much I wished she focused solely on the topic of sperm. What was the symbolic nature of sperm historically? Where did this stereotype of blaming women for infertility come from? Each of them deserves a full chapter on its own. That would have made an amazing book.