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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, consults a 66-year-old reader who has been dating with a woman 30 years his junior but wondering if there are any risk for him to father a child.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/26mdurtj  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Hello there, welcome to the whole fresh month of the month of August

00:03and when we're going to talk about various sexual and reproductive dysfunction

00:08after the age of ageing in men.

00:11What is more appropriate to talk about is what happens to fertility as men get older.

00:23So how old is getting older?

00:25In fact, by definition, after the age of 40, actually there are some ageing processes happening in men

00:32and this is probably because of the hormonal changes that actually reduce the active form of testosterone.

00:39And what impact will that have on spermatogenesis?

00:43In fact, it will lower the sperm quality as far as the motility is concerned,

00:48the number is concerned and also, of course, sexual desire and erectile function as men get older.

00:57But that doesn't stop men from fathering a child.

01:01We all know famous people who actually father a child at advancing age.

01:07Most people talk about Mick Jagger.

01:09Actually, Mick Jagger is relatively young as compared to the others

01:13because he fathered a child at the age of 73, just like Charlie Chaplin.

01:19Other people father a child, probably top of the group, is somebody like Al Pacino.

01:25Al Pacino and Robert De Niro all father children at the age of 83 and 79.

01:31And others also follow suit, actually father a child.

01:35Is there any risk in that?

01:37In fact, the risk has been documented to show various forms of condition that may affect the next generation.

01:45Interestingly enough, people who have got elderly father who actually are in the next generation

01:52will have a lower sperm count.

01:54So, we'll have some degree of fertility issue.

01:57But that's not the main issue here.

01:59The main issue here is actually children of the advancing father actually may have problems with autism and spectrum

02:08and also may have problems with schizophrenia and also ADHD, which is attention deficit disorders.

02:17However, the vast majority of these children are actually healthy

02:21because quite a significant prognostic factor of this fertility actually depends on the mother and the maternal age as well.

02:32So, in summary, as men get older, of course their fertility will deteriorate

02:38but the fertility doesn't really need to deteriorate so much in order to make a man infertile

02:44because we only need one healthy sperm

02:46and although that healthy sperm may be healthy to create a baby

02:51but sometimes DNA fragmentation itself may actually result in the offspring

02:56having some issues with schizophrenia and also ADHD and autism and sometimes fertility problem.

03:04For the following week, we're going to talk about what age does to the enlarged prostate.

03:10We're not talking about cancer here.

03:12We're just talking about when the prostate get enlarged

03:15what happened to men who has got aging process.

03:18Stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

EP285: Aspiring to breed like Mick Jagger | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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