Fertility Woes - You Can't Have It All...
Jul. 7th, 2008 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateA while back, I tried to read this book The Mommy Myth, but got so angry with the revealed deceptions that I have yet to finish it. Someday...
Supporting evidence of neither sex being easily able to beat the ticking clock is being revealed daily.
Men have the ticking biological clock as well. After 35, there is lowered fertility. After 45, it gets even worse.
Women with already low fertility (read, any female over 35, right?) can cut their chances of conceiving by an additional 26% if they drink four or more cups of coffee a day.
As someone who currently has no plans to conceive any time in the future, this doesn't really affect me, but it is an interesting trend to follow.
Supporting evidence of neither sex being easily able to beat the ticking clock is being revealed daily.
Men have the ticking biological clock as well. After 35, there is lowered fertility. After 45, it gets even worse.
Women with already low fertility (read, any female over 35, right?) can cut their chances of conceiving by an additional 26% if they drink four or more cups of coffee a day.
As someone who currently has no plans to conceive any time in the future, this doesn't really affect me, but it is an interesting trend to follow.
