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Plastics a Big Factor in Rapidly Declining Sperm Counts, Expert Says

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

Sperm counts are declining worldwide — and at a rate more than double that since the turn of the century — according to Shanna Swan, Ph.D., author of “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, one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, said seven more years of data recently added to her previous analyses confirm her conclusion.

“I’ve been studying this for a long time,” Swan said last month in an “After Skool” video segment, “and I and my colleagues published a paper in 2017, which went viral when we concluded sperm counts had declined over the past 50 years.”

“We decided because of the great interest in it, that we should expand that paper and bring it up to date,” Swan said. The updated and expanded paper was published in Human Reproduction Update in November 2022.

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