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Countdown: The Human Race's Troubling Decline in Fertility

COUNTDOWN: THE HUMAN RACE’S TROUBLING DECLINE IN FERTILITY- On this week's Futureproof podcast...

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13.58 10 Apr 2021


Countdown: The Human Race's Troubling Decline in Fertility



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13.58 10 Apr 2021


COUNTDOWN: THE HUMAN RACE’S TROUBLING DECLINE IN FERTILITY- On this week's Futureproof podcast with Jonathan McCrea, he meets Dr Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City & author of ‘Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development’, and ‘Imperiling the Future of the Human Race’ - about the worrying trend in the decline of fertility across the world.

Also on the show Jonathan was joined by Dr Shane Bergin of UCD and Dr Jessamyn Fairfield of NUI Galway to look at the science news stories of the week.

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Birth Dr Jessamyn Fairfield Dr Shanna H. Swan Fertility Futureproof Human Race Jonathan McCrae Mount Sinai NUI Galway New York Newstalk Podcast Shane Bergin UCD

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