{"id":100998,"date":"2021-03-30T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.oviahealth.com\/guide\/100998\/men-age-fertility\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T20:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:29:29","slug":"men-age-fertility","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/100998\/men-age-fertility\/","title":{"rendered":"Age and male fertility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most men are fertile until old age, but time brings a set of physical changes that affect many men\u2019s ability to father children. It is possible for men to have kids late into their lives, but once most men reach 40 or so, the likelihood of them fathering a child starts to decrease. Here&#8217;s more helpful information about the correlation between age and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/248691\/benefits-tsc-progyny-what-can-affect-female-fertility\/\">male fertility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How age affects male fertility<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For starters, we know that at this age many men\u2019s sexual functioning begins to change. As they get older, men tend to have a more difficult time getting and keeping erections, and they often need a longer resting time in between orgasms. This doesn\u2019t mean that they enjoy sex any less. It\u2019s just different; less frequent, and less easy to start and complete.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, and don\u2019t forget the sperm &#8211; they change too. More sperm are made that are abnormally shaped. Sperm motility declines and overall semen concentration tends to drop, which can render men who already had a low sperm count nearly unable to fertilize an egg. The rates of sperm cells being damaged, known as DNA fragmentation, also rises with age.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these factors lead to less frequent sexual intercourse, less successful sperm-and-egg encounters, and a higher prevalence of miscarriages and certain conditions (autism, ADHD, behavior problems, to name a few) among children born to older fathers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The data isn\u2019t clear, and there have been plenty of healthy babies born to older fathers. But ultimately it\u2019s very likely that the older men get, the more complications they and their partners face when trying to have a child.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we know that fertility decreases in women with age, but what about men?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221000,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ovia_author_name":"","ovia_author_prefix":"","ovia_author_image":"","ovia_content_type_id":"176","ovia_product_mode":"2","ovia_days_from_signup":"95","ovia_days_from_lmp":"","ovia_days_from_baby_birth":"","ovia_days_from_enroll":"","ovia_health_module_days_from":"","ovia_article_for_email_days_from":"","ovia_health_module":"","ovia_legacy_id2":"","ovia_ttc":"1","ovia_article_subtype":"","ovia_health_symptom":"","ovia_partner_id":"","ovia_partner_custom_group":"","ovia_legacy_category":"112","ovia_legacy_category2":"","ovia_content_url_id":"100998","ovia_include_share_buttons":"","ovia_fertility_goal":"2","ovia_secondary_module":"","ovia_trimester":"","ovia_child_age":"","ovia_share_image":"","ovia_more_menu_image":"","ovia_button1_url":"","ovia_days_from_postpartum":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"fert-category":[29,30,33,23,31,25,20,19,10,16,17,18],"preg-category":[],"parent-category":[],"fert-tag":[231,200,203],"preg-tag":[],"parent-tag":[],"class_list":["post-100998","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fert-category-difficulty-getting-pregnant","fert-category-fertility-testing","fert-category-health-and-wellness","fert-category-increase-fertility","fert-category-infertility","fert-category-male-fertility","fert-category-preconception-health","fert-category-preconception-planning","fert-category-reproductive-health","fert-category-reproductive-healthcare","fert-category-reproductive-issues-and-conditions","fert-category-trying-to-conceive","fert-tag-fertility-disorders","fert-tag-pregnancy-by-age","fert-tag-timing-sex"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does age affect male fertility? | Things to consider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are several variables that affect male fertility, is age one of them? 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