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Sneddon, Dan (4 July 2022). "Countdown's Susie Dent reflects on 30th anniversary". Yahoo.com . Retrieved 15 March 2023. In the tradition ofSilent SpringandThe Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing human sexuality and endangering fertility on a vast scale. Trash all cleaning products that say "toxic", "hazardous", "danger", or "warning". You do not need deleterious chemicals to clean your floor. Use metal water bottles. If a water bottle is made out of plastic, then plastic particles will seep into your drink.Part IV: What We Can Do About This" contains 3 chapters, two of which are filled with ideas for reducing your chemical footprint. Chapter 11 includes common sense ideas such as: don't smoke, eat healthfully, and manage your stress levels. Chapter 12 has less obvious [but still kind of obvious] ideas such as: don't microwave plastic and don't use air fresheners. Another suggestion was to avoid antibacterial soaps, but it is not explained why. Do they or don't they contain endocrine disrupting chemicals? Count Down builds upon this and a plethora of other research findings that all point to one terrifying fact: our modern lifestyles are having deleterious effects on fertility and reproductive health, not only in humans, but in other species as well. Persistent chemical pollutants in our households, air, oceans, drinking water and food supply are having measurable effects on our ability to reproduce. Left unabated, this will inevitably have tragic consequences for our future here on this planet. 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. Count Down How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race They know that porn watching can cause ED. But why hasn’t anyone looked into the testosterone draining effects of excessive masturbation? The ancient Romans weren’t allowed to have sex during summer war campaigns so as not to deplete their “manliness.” Why would that be any less true today? Sultans with harems were generally infertile after age thirty, that was a known thing. A major change that has happened in the last forty years that no one talks about is that young men are masturbating a lot more than they ever have in the history of the human race. (This is an assumption based on the fact that it is accepted and even encouraged today whereas in the past our ancestors discouraged it in almost every culture.) Why has that not been studied as a source of testosterone depletion?

Again, pretty much everything I wrote above I previously read in much more cogently argued articles that are widely available. What was not covered in those articles was the question of whether or not the sudden rise in the number of gender dysphoria cases might be caused by greater exposure to anti-androgenic chemicals or endocrine disrupters (either in utero or prior to puberty). I previously assumed this phenomenon was largely (or even exclusively) the result of social contagion (i.e. teens and young adults pushing boundaries and trying to be popular or relevant). So in all honesty this question was rather intriguing and I was curious to see what the data showed. Sadly, the author spent roughly an eighth of the book speculating without any evidence one way or the other. But rest assured, she made sure to state multiple times that even if toxic chemicals are responsible for gender dysphoria, the rise of gender fluidity is something to be celebrated and embraced. OK. Thanks for that scientific analysis Doc. From 2003 to 2007, Dent was the author of a series of yearly Language Reports for the Oxford University Press (OUP). The first was simply titled The Language Report, and this was followed by Larpers and Shroomers (2004); Fanboys and Overdogs (2005); The Like, Language Report for Real (2006); and The Language Report: English on the Move 2000 – 2007 (2007). The format of this publication was revised for 2008 as an A–Z collection of new and newly resurrected words. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year ( ISBN 9780199551996). 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.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. Filter your water, especially if you are in a city. Chemicals, medications, and other crap can get into drinking supplies, which are then ingested by you. On her upcoming role, Dr Imafidon said: “It has been a ride and a half keeping Rachel's seat warm. Unlike anything I've ever done, and I'll probably never get to do something so iconic ever again! Thanks in advance to everyone who tunes in to see how I got on...and big thanks to Rachel!” Butcher, David. "Not Going Out – what time is it on TV? Episode 4 Series 8 cast list and preview". Radiotimes.com . Retrieved 25 July 2017.

She has been honorary vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading since 2016, as well as an Honorary Fellow and vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Linguists since 2023. [16] [17] Published books [ edit ] More Live Dates For Gyles Brandreth And Susie Dent Plus West End Residency". Beyond The Joke. 6 July 2022 . Retrieved 10 March 2023. When the orzo’s ready, stir it into everything else and season to taste. Top with the coriander sprigs and serve with the lime slices or wedges. Where can I buy Slimming World recipe books?Swan highlights all of reasons fertility is declining in the United States. It's a very sad topic to read about fertility issues and how they devastate families, but thankfully it's more on facts than stories. Dent is well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on Channel 4's long-running game show Countdown. On each episode, she also provides a brief commentary on the origin of a particular word or phrase. Dent is the longest-serving member of the show's current on-screen team, first appearing in 1992; she has made more than 5,000 appearances. [7] Dent also works on the spin-off show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. [8] An urgent examination of a global problem that requires vastly more attention than it currently receives. 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. CIOL Representation | CIOL (Chartered Institute of Linguists)". ciol.org.uk . Retrieved 13 June 2023.

The reason I gave this book one less star is twofold: one is the topic is depressing and the other is that she really never talked about how the cost of childcare contributes to this issue. I know many people opting to have one child instead of two solely based on the rising cost of raising children in the United States. It is strange that she never delves into this topic as Universal Child Care is a hot button issue whose day has come. 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]An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent. After reading the book, I have to say the podcast was much more interesting than the book itself. It was not well written. It was just hard to read with scientific jargon and not-so-interesting stories. Aside from the obligatory kowtows to the homosexual and transsexual, this book has a great deal of very frightening (yet enlightening) information. Our sperm counts have been dropping by 1% per year for the past 50 years, which means that we have half the sperm as did men in 1970. Only about ~10% of males today will get their sperm accepted into sperm banks. Our sperm are becoming mutated, without tails, spinning in circles, and decreasing in density and volume. Why? 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. What is causing this? Authors Shanna Swan, a reproductive and environmental epidemiologist, and Stacey Colino sum it up in a few words. “If it sounds like we’re living in an alphabet soup of evil chemicals, well, we are.” There are many evil chemicals that risk our health and existence, but the worst are endocrine disruptors, a class of chemicals that disrupt hormone function. Chief among these chemicals are phthalates, a key component of plastics. Endocrine disruptors negatively affect our reproductive health which has led to a low fertility among humans, and even a declining interest in sex in general. Human fetuses in the womb are also negatively affected by the endocrine disruptors. And we’re not the only creatures being adversely affected. The horror extends to the fish in the sea, the birds and bees in the air – to every living creature.