| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/7/2009 9:24:45 PM | | I keep reading how older men's sperm has higher risk of genetic defects. I am 32 and wonder if freezing my sperm is a sensible thing to do? It will at least take a lot of worrying off my shoulders. I am in excellent health these days, so why not? What are the downsides? | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/7/2009 10:13:40 PM | Are you going to keep it in the ice tray in the freezer? Make sure you label it.
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/7/2009 11:51:39 PM | | It's my understanding that a man's sperm, though potentially having SOME chance of defect with age, is not quite as detrimental as a woman's ovum during mid forties just up till menopause. Tony Randall had a perfectly healthy kid from eighty year old sperm. I Iwould think, that at 32, you're still ok, even if you wait a little longer. I wouldn't freeze 'em just yet, unless you're in need of some immediate cash...... | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/8/2009 12:07:23 AM | question if u have them frozen later can u get them turned into snow cones and what flavor would be the best on them..
ok serious isnt there like an experation date on them when frozen.and how to explain to your kid that yes daddy loves you my lil frozen pudding pop.and with them being frozen do u go on saturday afternoons and sit and read a book to the lil squirts
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/8/2009 5:51:00 AM | Wrong forum.
Shouldn't this be in the "Recipes & Cooking" forum? | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/8/2009 8:16:20 AM | Sperm quality degrades as you age, and the chance of miscarriage or birth defects rises, especially after age 40.
So, not a bad idea to freeze some, have a vasectomy, really. Then you have total control over when and if you have children - no mistakes, no women taking advantage or tricking you (yes, yes, most won't, but some do). The main drawback is probably access to a clinic that does this, and the cost now and then later when you want to make a withdrawal. | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/8/2009 11:58:53 AM | | It's a great idea...for all the right reasons. Why not? | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 4/8/2009 12:18:53 PM | | If you want to have total control over who you impregnate, when and how many children you will have,then freeze a good amount of sperm then get a vasectomy. I wouldn't worry too much about the state of your sperm at 32 years old however. Look at how many old men produce healthy children. The same can't be said for women as I learned the hard way. | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 10/31/2009 7:04:53 PM | It is overblown. If you check the research again, you will see it does not apply to everyman. Your unfrozen sperm could be healthier at 50 than frozen at 39. You can do many things such as masturbation daily or sex daily to mitigate DNA damage.
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 10/31/2009 7:31:52 PM | It's expensive to keep frozen,
You can end up with issues the longer you keep it frozen, then if you just kept it inside of you,
You're only 32. You have oodles of it still good to go for some time. | |
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 10/31/2009 8:58:09 PM |
Are you going to keep it in the ice tray in the freezer? Make sure you label it
spermsicles. | |
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Posted: 11/1/2009 12:24:41 AM | Go re-read whatever it was you were reading. Check the source material and who funded the study. It SOUNDS like some piece of feminist-backed crapola with faulty science.
The MAIN risk of genetic defects comes from older EGGS in the woman. Especially if she is having her first kid at an age over 40.
Women are born with ALL the eggs they will ever produce. THEIR eggs age. Men produce new sperm daily. The biggest failure in sperm is a lack of "motility"
If you want to allay your fears.. go to a fertility specialist and have your sperm checked for any and all issues that can make you less fertile or not. | |
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Posted: 11/1/2009 2:03:01 AM | LOL, yeah, just go get some of those Tupperware popsicle molds and make a bunch of spermsicles...that'll be just lovely to explain to the kids on a hot summer day.
The only reason to freeze sperm is if you're going to go through chemo or radiation or going to die. And then only under a doctor's supervision.
Good Lord, men can reproduce literally all their life...as long as they can get that thing up and off it will keep making babies, I don't know where some people get their information!
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| Freezing sperm
Posted: 11/1/2009 3:42:31 PM | Actually, what OP is reading is correct. Yes, men do continually produce sperm all of their lives. However, as they age, the reproduction mechanisms (cells) are not as able to detect and correct DNA mistakes as when they were younger. Therefore, there is a higher possibility of an uncorrected DNA mistake in one of the little guys which can produce faulty offspring.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, though, until you hit your mid-40s. I haven't seen any credible evidence that men younger than that have a higher rate of children with birth defects. | |
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Posted: 11/1/2009 6:50:46 PM | | whats the cost of freezing sperm ? surely each year you have to pay a clinic to keep it for you , any one know ? | |
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Posted: 11/1/2009 9:31:28 PM | | about $50 per month, billed every 6 months, for the next 6 months storage. | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 10:13:40 PM | https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/2006/NR-06-06-01p.html
Unlike in women, the researchers found no correlation between male aging and chromosome changes that cause Down’s syndrome and other forms of trisomies – such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, triple X syndrome, and XYY in offspring – that are associated with varying types and severity of infertility as well as physical and neurological abnormalities. They did conclude, however, that some older men could be at risk for fathering children with dwarfism, and that “a small fraction of men are at increased risks for transmitting multiple genetic and chromosomal defects.”
In the case of Apert syndrome, a serious disfiguring birth defect, the researchers found that the effects of advancing male age may differ among different groups of men. Apert syndrome gene mutations increased in the sperm of a second group of men recruited in the Baltimore inner city by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, while no age effects were observed in the group of men recruited in California.
Wyrobek noted that these differences in finding suggest that factors other than age may be involved, raising the possibility that socioeconomic or dietary factors or ethnic background may also be involved in how age affects the quality of human sperm.
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There you have it! Don't worry too much about it!
1) Eat properly
2) Have sex daily/Spank the monkey
3) Don't smoke
You can have healthy baby you many years hence. You are already ahead of the game being a vegetarian!!
Goodluck | |
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