{"id":462,"date":"2020-03-17T14:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legacy.varunme.com\/resources\/age-no-asset-is-eternal\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:47:19","slug":"age-and-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/resources\/age-and-sperm\/","title":{"rendered":"Age and sperm health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why would any man consider freezing his sperm<\/a>? Don\u2019t they last forever?<\/p>\n

After all, men such as Mick Jagger have fathered children well into their advanced years<\/a> \u2013 his eighth kid having come along when the aging rocker was 73. Plus, isn\u2019t the practice of freezing vital life elements reserved for females, who are born with a fixed number of eggs for life<\/a>, while men continue to create sperm<\/a> with each and every heartbeat? And even though people may make the occasional reference to male menopause, doesn\u2019t that simply refer to old-man moodiness instead of actual physical changes?<\/p>\n

Either way, fact is that male sperm<\/a> counts have been reduced by more than 50 percent over nearly the last four decades, says the Guardian<\/em> newspaper of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You read that right. Half of all male swimmers worldwide have gone missing. And it took just 38 years.<\/p>\n

Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist and lead author of the study from the University of Haifa, tells the Guardian<\/em>, \u201cThe results [of the latest research findings] are quite shocking. This is a classic under the radar huge public health problem that is really neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research Levine refers to, published last year in the journal Human Reproduction Update<\/a>, amounts to a compilation of 185 studies (out of 7,500 that were screened) carried out from 1973 to 2011 that include nearly 43,000 men. The researchers took care to divide the data according to whether the men were from western countries, including New Zealand, Australia, Western Europe, and North America, or somewhere else.<\/p>\n

They also took into account potential mitigating factors such as how long the men might have gone without ejaculating as well as their ages. And the numbers proved sobering:<\/p>\n