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  Evaluating Your Fertility
  Understanding Fertility
  Maximise Your Fertility
  Infertility: An Introduction
  Infertility in Females
  Infertility in Males
  Sperm Disorders
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  Varicose Veins
  Testicular Cancer
  Undescended Testis
  Environment & Lifestyle
  Unexplained Infertility (Idiopathic)
  Age Associated Concerns
  Impotence
  Implications of Infertility
  Questions to Ask Your Doctor
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Age Associated Concerns

Age affects a man's reproductive potential. The major causes for this are the quality of the ejaculate and the frequency of intercourse. For some men, advancing age is associated with declining testosterone levels, decreased sexual interest, and reduced sexual activity. Sperm motility can also decline with age.

However, men continually produce sperm, so the decline in fertility in men isn't as pronounced as it is in women.
 


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