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The fertility of Hungarian men is declining
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Növekedés.hu was the first to report that, according to some data, the sperm count of Hungarian men has more than halved by the 2000s compared to the ‘70s. Age also matters: by the age of 45, a man has only half as much fertile sperm than at the age of 30, and the quality of the DNA stock also declines with age.
Árpád Szántó, the director of the Urology Clinic at the Clinical Centre of the University of Pécs, told InfoRádió about the topic. He said that the demand for artificial insemination procedures is growing, as men and women tend to have their first child at an older age. However, with age, reproductivity gradually deteriorates, which is equally true for men as well.
“The quality of sperm in older or ageing men is not as good as people in their prime. The best sperm parameters are in a man’s 20s and 30s. After that, prostate or other urological disorders may overshadow that capacity,”
a researcher from the National Laboratory for Human Reproduction added.
In roughly half of the infertile couples, it is the man’s condition that prevents them from having children. There can be several underlying causes; smoking and alcohol both have a negative effect on sperm vitality.
“The stress and rush of the 21st century did not do any good to hereditary or acquired diseases and urological inflammations in a man’s medical history,”
Clearly more migrants are needed, especially African men, or Hungary will almost disappear in a matter of few decades.
Mario, you always have such perceptive insights. Your sarcasm has a fine point on it making it easy to miss. Perhaps BLM and LGBTQP would be willing to help with this low fertility problem. Why put all the work on migrants?