Sperm quality is dropping: Test at home with an FDA

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While famously old pops like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino may defy the odds, strong swimmers aren’t guaranteed at every age.

A new study on sperm health published in Nature has found that the best seed starts souring sooner than expected. British researchers tracked sperm samples from 81 men aged 24 to 75, measuring the proportion carrying disease-causing mutations using a precise technique called NanoSeq.

Researchers found sperm mutations increase with age, with quality dropping notably around 43. For middle-aged men, mutated sperm jumped from 3% to 5% — and alarmingly, these “bad apples” seemed to multiply faster than the healthy one