The Plastic Detox features leading scientists and personal stories of couples who bravely share their infertility journey and the steps they’ve taken to detox their homes and lives. This documentary is an eye-opening journey into the hidden dangers of plastic in our homes. From hormone disruption that’s fueling a worldwide fertility crisis, to growing rates of cancer and early heart attack and stroke, this powerful documentary reveals the shocking science behind plastic’s impact on human life.
This new documentary reframes the global plastic problem — a core driver of fossil fuel demand — as an urgent public health issue.
Learn more about reducing your plastic exposure at home and in our community at our free community screening of The Plastic Detox. And stick around after the screening for an open discussion with special guest Dr. Shanna Swan, an Environmental and Reproductive Epidemiologist featured in the documentary!
Shanna Swan, PhD
Professor of Environmental Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Adj Professor Ob/Gyn, University of CA, San Francisco Director: Action Science Initiative
Dr. Shanna Swan is an Environmental and Reproductive Epidemiologist. She is Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and an Adjunct Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California San Francisco.
She currently is the director of the Action Science Initiative, a program that conducts rapid interventions and larger, longer-term studies that look at the impacts of environmental pollutants on reproductive health.
Her work examines the impact of environmental exposures on reproductive health and neurodevelopment. Since 1998, Dr. Swan has conducted multi-center pregnancy cohort studies, which now include more than 1,500 mothers and their children, to better understand how prenatal and early childhood exposure to stressors can impact children’s health and development. In 2017, Dr. Swan and colleagues published “Temporal Trends in Sperm Count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis,” which was updated in 2022. In 2021 Dr. Swan and co-author Stacey Colino published “Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Health, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race,” which has been translated into nine languages.
Dr. Swan is committed to broadening the impact of this science to protect public health and the environment.
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