Tylenol’s Active Ingredient Acetaminophen Is Destroying Your Fertility: Peer-Reviewed Study

Tylenol’s Active Ingredient Acetaminophen Is Destroying Your Fertility: Peer-Reviewed Study
Tylenol tablets, which contain acetaminophen, are shown on April 14, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Jennifer Margulis
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Tylenol is destroying men’s sperm. That’s just one of the alarming revelations in a new article published in the peer-reviewed journal Environment International.

The study, “Combined exposures to bisphenols, polychlorinated dioxins, paracetamol, and phthalates as drivers of deteriorating sperm quality” was conducted by an international team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Denmark. [1]
Jennifer Margulis
Jennifer Margulis
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Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist and author of “Your Baby, Your Way: Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Decisions for a Happier, Healthier Family.” A Fulbright awardee and mother of four, she has worked on a child survival campaign in West Africa, advocated for an end to child slavery in Pakistan on prime-time TV in France, and taught post-colonial literature to nontraditional students in inner-city Atlanta. Learn more about her at JenniferMargulis.net
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