How age affects fertility

Fertility Specialist Richard Marrs, MD explains how age affects fertility and its differences in effects in men and women
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Age affects fertility drastically in women and less so in men. Women are born with all the eggs they are going to have in their lifetime stored in their ovaries at birth, and they start utilizing those eggs from birth until they go through menopause, which is just when their ovaries have run out of eggs for ovulation. The egg cell is as old as a woman, and therefore when a woman's twenty, her eggs are relatively young and they function very well. In her thirties, they are still fairly young and functioning well as far as fertility output. When women get into their forties, early forties, mid forties, late forties, the egg function declines dramatically. The chances of fertility decrease dramatically from about age thirty-nine on. So it's key for a woman who's concerned about having a family to either begin that family if she can in her early thirties, or certainly by her late thirties. If she gets closer to forty, the odds of her being pregnant and successful having a child get lower and lower. The male doesn't get affected the same way. Time and age don't affect the male, but men of older age have certain risks. Not fertility risks, but they have risks of having abnormalities in the children that they father in their sixties, seventies, and eighties.
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Fertility Specialist Richard Marrs, MD explains how age affects fertility and its differences in effects in men and women

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Richard Marrs, MD

Fertility Specialist

Dr. Richard Marrs is a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist. He studied medicine and trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Texas before moving to Southern California to study Reproductive Endocrinology. While at the University of Southern California, he developed one of the country’s first IVF programs, which is responsible for the second IVF birth in the United States and the first birth from cryopreserved embryos in the United States in 1986. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to the development of IVF. He has published over 200 papers and books in the area of Reproductive Endocrinology and In Vitro Fertilization and is a prominent figure in the national and international infertility communities. In 1996, he published a book for couples called the Dr. Richard Marrs' Fertility Book: America's Leading Infertility Expert Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Getting Pregnant.

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