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What Hospitals Have Wrong About Childbirth, The Truth About Natural Childbirth, Fertility-Enhancing Methods, A Plant Medicine Bonus Debate & Much More

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Evolution of Sperm and Egg

Sperm rush this egg. They all start lining up around it until one breaks through. There's this explosion. You can actually have it on your finger now and you would be able to see it. And another part of the mystery that I don't fully understand is the eggs always rotate counterclockwise whenever these sperm line up around it. So anyways, now we've got these two gametes, the sperm and egg I've met. Now what? We get these millions of divisions. These cells just start dividing rapidly. If you look at a zebrafish on a time lapse, you'll see the cells divide, divide, divides, divide. And they don't know where

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