• Our polluted bodies

    • Our bodies are polluted by hundreds of chemicals that are not supposed to be there - and we don't know much about how they affect us.

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  • Infertile men

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  • in the western world, right now

    • The level of male infertility is increasing

    0.5 percent of men were functionally sterile in 1938. Today the number has reached 8-12 percent - a 20-fold increase!

    It is linked to chemicals in our environment

    Men who live in industrial cities (and who therefore are exposed to more chemical pollution) were found to have 6 times more abnormal sperm than men living in a relatively clean rural town.

    Not just affecting men

    Risk of infertility is higher in females who are exposed to textile dyes, dry cleaning chemicals, lead, mercury and cadmium.

    It's in the products surrounding us

    Women working in rubber, plastics or synthetics industry had an 80 percent greater chance of stillbirth. Father employment in the textile industry (chemical dyes, plastics, formaldehyde, etc.) resulted in their wives having a 90 percent greater risk of stillbirth.

    What to do?

    We should pay attention to the chemicals in the products we buy. Everything from food and cosmetics to clothes and toys can contain chemical contaminants.

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