27.4.15

Not Only Egg Freezing
Sperm Freezing Too

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... [Much like women’s eggs, the quality of a man’s sperm significantly decreases with age. This occurs because the machinery that allows men to produce sperm ages too, which can introduce mutations, or errors, in DNA. For instance, older men are more likely to have children that will develop schizophrenia or autism than their younger counterparts. And fathers pass on nearly four times more new genetic mutations than mothers, according to a study published in Nature, an international journal of science, in 2012. In short, the age of the mother isn’t the only factor to think about if you’re fighting against the ticking of the biological clock.]...
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