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Why Should You Worry About Men's Fertility?

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 I bet you are wondering now why should you worry about men's fertility ? (Photo by Sebastián-Dario is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) You may think I am going off on a cliff here talking about men’s reproductive health when my focus is on women’s reproductive health. Well let’s dive in. Without men and their sperm it doesn’t matter what our bodies do when dropping that egg because there will be nothing to fertilize it. Therefore no pregnancy can occur and our population will be null. It’ll be the end of the human world as we know it. Sounds like one of those conspiracy horror flicks. Face it. We need sperm just as much as the sperm needs the egg and our uterus. Harmony right? So this is why I will speak on men’s health at times too.  (Photo by ntr23 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) So now you see the reason to worry about men’s fertility?  Brain melt moment here. So while 100-300 million sperm are created each day, it takes on average 72 days for the seminiferous tubules (within th