Emergency limited measures are necessary to involve the use of plastic additives, because their harm to men's health may be the cause of the global crisis.
Over the past 50 years, the number of sperm in the world has decreased by about 1% per year, human fertility decreased at the same speed. The reasons may be the increasing level of obesity, the sedentary lifestyle and the aging of the population.
However, a professor of environmental medicine and health care Shanna Swan from Aykan Medical School, at Mount-Sinai New York, who is considered one of the leading reproductive health experts in the world, implies environmental factors with the main prerequisite conditions. According to her, reducing “in a significant relationship, but not completely related to toxins in the environment, can violate the work of hormone steroids.”
In 2017, Swan and her colleagues published an integrated analysis, showing a decrease in sperm number of nearly 60% in men in North America, Europe and Australia from 1973 to 2011. In 2023, they repeated research, expanded until 2018 and including non -access data before.
Swan we divided the countries of the West and did not belong to the purpose of analysis and in both groups discovered a significant decline, according to Mr. Swan. – Another discovery, it turned out to be at least alarming, if you perform all studies since 1973, the reduction of 1% per year. But if you consider studies published after 2000, the decrease exceeds 2%. Therefore, the rate of decline has increased, and significantly, in recent years. “
The decrease in the number of sperm depends on the explosive growth of the use of plastic. Swan noted that the relationship between the common additives in plastic and reducing the number of sperm has been well set.
Ftalates are chemicals added to plastic to make it flexible and soft. Therefore, every time you pick up a soft bottle of water, a pipe, such as a health or soft container for meals, you interact with Flulates, the professor explains. – The “evil twins” of Flulators – Bisphenols. If Flulates makes the plastic soft and flexible, then Bispenola gives it hard and hardness. Ftalates reduces testosterone and bisphenol levels that increase estrogen levels. “
The total effect of these people and other endocrine destroyers especially affects fruits and embryos in the womb. Swan conducted a study on the influence of phthalates on not born boys and found that their influence in the important period of pregnancy could lead to some deviations in sexual development.
The side effects of Flulates in the womb, called ftalate syndrome, including the penis size decreases, the decrease of the gap between the genital and anus, as well as the reduction of the number of sperm in adolescents when puberty, the reproductive doctor clarifies.
We have shown the relationship between influence and fertility. And when we see that the total number of sperm is reduced worldwide, I believe this is an important impact of the early exposure of these chemicals.
There is no global solution to this problem – recent negotiations in Geneva related to the plastic pollution crisis have ended with a statement that is not linked to calls. Therefore, the personal reasoning will be useful, professor advises.
So far, yes, everyone should be careful. You can reuse the material. You should pay attention to what is used in containers to remove and bring glass bottles to drink with you. This is very important, she concluded.
