{"id":43298,"date":"2023-02-04T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43298"},"modified":"2023-02-04T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:50:03","slug":"plastics-a-big-factor-in-rapidly-declining-sperm-counts-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43298","title":{"rendered":"Plastics a Big Factor in Rapidly Declining Sperm Counts, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-43299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sperm_To_Egg-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Sperm To Egg\" width=\"767\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sperm_To_Egg-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sperm_To_Egg-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sperm_To_Egg.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sperm counts are declining worldwide \u2014 and at a rate more than double that since the turn of the century \u2014 according to one of the world\u2019s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, who says endocrine-disrupting chemicals are likely to blame.<\/p>\n<p>(Tom: And this was BEFORE the latest fertility destroying medical intervention!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/sperm-counts-reproductive-development-plastics\/\">https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/sperm-counts-reproductive-development-plastics\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sperm counts are declining worldwide \u2014 and at a rate more than double that since the turn of the century \u2014 according to one of the world\u2019s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, who says endocrine-disrupting chemicals are likely to blame. (Tom: And this was BEFORE the latest fertility destroying medical intervention!) https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/sperm-counts-reproductive-development-plastics\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43300,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions\/43300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}