In this episode, we talk about the dangers of environmental pollutants and the impact they can have on sperm production. We also talk about who deserves the future and why we should care about it. This episode is brought to you by Gimlet Media and produced by Riley Bray.
00:00:00.000I wanted to add some color to, like, the Plan B thing.
00:00:02.840And there's so many things in our society now where we think that biologically we're the same as, like, our grandparents were.
00:00:08.280But, you know, sperm rates have dropped by something like over 50% in the last 51 years.
00:00:13.240Testosterone's dropped something like 30% in the last 20 years.
00:00:16.620You know, Simone, if you want to talk about the TIDE studies.
00:00:19.420Yeah, I'm not really sure if you're familiar with them.
00:00:21.320TIDES, basically a bunch of longitudinal researchers, looked at the levels of endocrine disruptors in women who are pregnant first trimester.
00:00:30.300And then they measured a bunch of things with the children they had afterwards.
00:00:33.240It turns out that, especially when they were pregnant with boys, they were disproportionately affected by endocrine disruptors,
00:00:38.180which are in everything from, like, receipts we're picking up to our shampoo to our lotion, plastic in our water bottles, etc.
00:00:44.840And in addition to boys being born with lower, what's called anal genital distance taint,
00:00:51.320when they were age 7, 8, they had lower, we'll say gender dimorphic, lower boy-like play.
00:00:57.640So they were actually acting less like boys when they were older.
00:01:00.300So we're seeing a whole generation of young men who've been affected, essentially, by pollutants in our environment,
00:01:05.300who knows how else this is showing up, probably infertility things like Malcolm alluded to.
00:01:09.980But, you know, I think that this should be reframed.
00:01:45.740Listen, from your fairies and what you're saying to me, you're telling me that certain people from the aspects of life, they don't deserve a future.