Age not only influences female fertility because some studies show that the male biological clock also has consequences in terms of reproduction. How? We tell you below.

We have talked in previous articles to expect and try to conceive after the age of 35 may be the answer to the Why can’t I get pregnant?, a question that many women constantly ask themselves after a year trying to conceive, however, the issue of age also affects the reproductive potential of men.

Influencing the health of the future baby

After an interview with biologist Kevin Smith by the UK BBC journalistic network, a great debate was generated by asking the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) to consider opening sperm banks in which all men over 18 years old can Store your semen so that the moment you decide to be parents, your sperm are of higher quality and thus ensure that your children are born healthy.

Several have criticized this idea because it prevents babies from being conceived naturally when there is a possibility in the couple to do so, thus they would necessarily seek the solution in Assisted reproduction techniques That they are an excellent opportunity for couples with inconveniences of being pregnant.

But Smith made this proposal thinking that it is time to take the issue of fatherly age and its effect on the future generation of children seriously, since there are several studies, one of them the one that the Icelandic company Decode Genetics carried out years ago, which showed that autism and Schizophrenia are directly related to the father’s genes and specifically because of their age, checking the fact that in the sperm of men during adult life there are effects of genetic mutations.

The figures we all need to know

According to a report published by the web portal of the magazine Semana, men produce between 200 and 400 million new sperm daily, however, since the age of 40, its fertility declines at least 70 percent, one of the main Causes that explain why they are responsible for most genetic mutations With which the baby can be born, because as man ages, the DNA that is in the sperm begins to fragment, thus causing infertility.

In fact, the Institute of Legal Medicine in our country did a job in which about 51,000 cases of maternity and paternity were studied, which revealed more than 800 mutations in the DNA in which 75 percent were of the parents and 14.9 percent originated from the mothers.

And it is that the decision to postpone the fact of conceiving children is not only on the part of women, men also prefer to develop professionally, find economic stability, for example the average age in the United Kingdom to have a child is 33 years old, in Spain it is 34.

But in developing countries such as Colombia, there is still no specific data ³we lack scientific information and although the fertility centers are concerned with having some figures of their patients, they do not represent the general population”. This was stated by Dr. Eduardo Castro Valderrama, our obstetrician fertility specialist in an interview conducted by the magazine Semana.

Taking into account the above, we invite you to contact our team of counselors at the 3204631851 or to phones 571-2151807 / 571-2146220. In the same way you can write us to the mail info@reprotectectocentro.com, we will respond to any concerns you have and more information about our Treatments to work on fertility of the couple.