infertility

For years, the “biological clock” reference has been pointed towards women. And, for good reason. We are born with all the eggs we’re ever going to have - we can’t continually replenish the supply when the good ones start running low. For a man, though, his supply of crazy swimmers is replenished daily. However, the men may not be getting off as freely as we think they are. Researchers have shown now that men may actually have a clock of their own. His clock may not tick as loudly as ours, but the result is still the same — use it or lose it. Researchers are now saying that miscarriages are more common in women whose partners are over the age of 40. So, it appears that we aren’t the only one who suffer the effects of age on our reproductive abilities. (For those of you with a partner on the fence about having a child, let him know that just because he keeps producing sperm on a daily basis doesn’t get him off the hook completely!)

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