Beware, Contamination Can Make The Penis Shrink!

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JAKARTA - If you need another reason to care about the climate and environmental crisis, scientists have found the right answer, penis shrinkage. Yes, based on research results, there is a link between industrial chemicals and penis length.

Is Dr. Shanna Swan, an epidemiologist and environmental scientist, through her book entitled 'Count Down' argues, the modern world today changes the development of human reproduction and threatens the future of humanity.

The book describes how contamination causes higher rates of erectile dysfunction, decreased fertility and an increasing number of babies are born with smaller penises.

While the main facts about shrinking may sound like a laughing stock, the research paints a grim portrait of humanity's longevity and ability to survive.

"In some parts of the world, the average age of twenties is currently less fertile than his grandmother at age 35. Pollutants and chemicals reduce the quality of semen, reduce penis size and testicular volume," wrote Dr Swan, calling the situation a 'crisis. global existence 'in the book, launches Euronews.

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"The chemicals in our environment and the unhealthy lifestyle practices in our modern world disrupt our hormonal balance, causing varying degrees of reproductive damage," he said.

According to the book, humans meet three of the five possible criteria used to determine whether a species is endangered or not.

"Only one needs to be met. The current human state satisfies at least three," he wrote.

According to Dr Swan's research, this disorder is caused by phthalates, a chemical used in the manufacture of plastics, which can affect the way endocrine hormones are produced.

This group of chemicals is used to help increase the flexibility of a substance. They can be found in toys, food packaging, detergents, cosmetics and many other products. Dr Swan believes these substances are radically damaging to human development.

"Babies who are now entering the world are contaminated with chemicals, because of the substances they absorb in the womb," said Dr. Swan.

These findings suggest that phthalate exposure at the end of the first trimester can shorten the anogenital distance (AGD).

"AGD is the distance from the anus to the beginning of the genitals which has long been recognized as important by scientists. In a 1912 study, men's AGD was nearly 100 percent longer than women's. Our finding, chemicals such as phthalates shorten AGD in men, "he explained, reported The Intercept.

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Most of Dr. Swan's recent research has focused on the effects of phthalates, initially looking at phthalate syndrome in mice. However, in 2000, there was a breakthrough in the field and it became possible to measure low-dose phthalates in humans.

Since then, Dr Swan has written papers on how this chemical can be transmitted between parents and their offspring, its impact on women's sexual desire and most recently, on penis length.

One of his best-known studies examined the intersection of sperm count and pollution in 2017, in groundbreaking research looking at male fertility over the past four decades.

After studying 185 studies involving nearly 45,000 healthy men, Dr Swan and his team concluded that sperm counts among men in Western countries had fallen by 59 percent between 1973 and 2011.

But there is good news. Since the creation of the European Environment Agency (EEA), Europeans have been exposed to 41 percent less particulate pollution than they were two decades ago. It is believed this rule has given Europeans an additional life expectancy of nine months.

"Demands for change from citizens and subsequent strong policies have helped clean the air in parts of Europe before, and can continue to be made to ensure that today's high pollution need not be the fate of the future," said Michael Greenstone, director of the Institute for Political Energy at University of Chicago.

So that if the steps to reduce pollution can be implemented properly, there is still hope for the future and fertility of mankind.