University of Southern California Clomiphene Citrate Method Analysis Paper We could choose a number of topics from the GERO 200 Course Lectures, but we cho

University of Southern California Clomiphene Citrate Method Analysis Paper We could choose a number of topics from the GERO 200 Course Lectures, but we chose something new and different. “Reproductive Aging”. We chose this topic because your choice of whether and when to have children is something that you will all be affected by in your near future. This topic affects both women and men. You are probably aware that women experience decreased fertility with age, but you may not be aware that men have decreased fertility with age, and that the reproductive risk of having a child with Down’s syndrome, bipolar disorder, autism or schizophrenia raises dramatically when the father is over 40. By age 21, biology dictates that all of you should have 2-3 children already. You will see when you hunt around the web site that I provided below (POMA) that you may find yourself caught between having a career and having children.

1a. Go to this web site and study each of the hot-links (i.e. Reproductive aging data). You should educate yourself with the information found in each section of this web site, because even as a Cinematic Arts major, you need to be a consumer for what is going to be done to you when you experience reproductive issues.

http://www.pomafertility.com/patients/infertility/reproductive-aging/

Now, do know that in vitro fertilization is the LAST thing you do to get pregnant when you are infertile. There are pharmacological methods used initially to make you a SUPER-OVULATOR!!! Drugs that will move multiple eggs to ovulate simultaneously, like 20!! Drugs like clomaphine citrate and injection of synthetic FSH (both mentioned above as a way to measure female fertility potential) – see this site below to get more information:

https://americanpregnancy.org/infertility/infertility-medications/

3. Now, take a quick look at this figure from a JAMA article describing the effect of advancing paternal age on the children who are born, and the likelihood that they will experience mental health or academic issues. Focus on the triangles to see the risk of advanced paternal age.

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Now discuss your thoughts/emotions about your reproductive future and the procedures you are now educated in.