Feedback Thursday, Jun 21st 2018 6AM 73°F 9AM 72°F 5-Day Forecast Home U.K. News Sports U.S. Showbiz Australia Femail Health Science Money Video Travel Columnists DailyMailTV Latest Headlines Health Health Directory Games The Opioid Crisis Login ADVERTISEMENT Male fertility is plunging and Site Web Enter your search fatherhood is in crisis as more couples ADVERTISEMENT than ever fail to conceive - can The Art of Baby Making author Gerad Kite tackle the problem? By GERAD KITE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 17:19 EDT, 16 June 2018 | UPDATED: 20:34 EDT, 16 June 2018 99 shares View com2me3nts Anxious, stressed out, stretched to breaking point… and riven with worries about how they look and perform in an image-obsessed world. Terriied that they’re in danger of fading into the background or being replaced by a ‘younger model’ at work or, more worryingly, at home. Too tired for sex with their partner yet desperate for a baby – and seemingly unable to conceive. These concerns may have once been the preserve of women, but I’m taking about the problems blighting my typical middle-aged male patient. 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Georgina Rodriguez makes a show of HUGE diamond on her ring finger while supporting Portugal at +3 the World Cup Lisa Snowdon parades Chris Evans is among the celebrities who has sought help from fertility expert and author her toned legs in a Gerad Kite soaring split gown as she joins chic Claudia Winkleman at star- Why do they come to me? Well, I am an acupuncturist with a busy practice in studded V&A Summer party London. Love Island's Dr. Alex I’ve become known for my unique approach and successes in helping couples facing FINALLY gets the girl as 'emotional' fans infertility. celebrate smitten Ellie's vow to couple up with I practice Five-Element acupuncture, which is different from the type you might be him familiar with. We don’t focus on directly tackling a symptom, such as asthma or skin complaints, but on bringing the whole person into balance. Love Island: Adam's family leap to his defence as they remind Fertility isn’t all I do, but it is something I do well – two-thirds of my patients get viewers the show is 'edited' and he's 'doing pregnant, compared to about 35 per cent of all those having IVF. what is right for him' following backlash I’ll see a man because I’ve been treating his wife. And now, more often, of his own ADVERTISEMENT volition. Video playing bottom right... Kourtney Kardashian sports fitted beige frock for romantic date night with Younes Bendjima in Italy Roman inspired gown Justin Bieber CARRIES Hailey Baldwin as couple pack on the PDA in LA days after confirming romance First dated in 2015 Even Queen Bey is an embarrassing mom! Watch the moment a mortified Blue Ivy's face falls as she frantically shields her eyes when a sexy clip of Beyoncé +3 and Jay-Z plays at a concert 'I’ve become known for my unique approach and successes in helping couples facing infertility,' writes the fertility expert. Love Island: Laura, 29, tells 'childish' partner Wes, 20, to 'grow up' as Samira expresses And while the lack of a baby, despite months or even years of trying, will be the concern over their primary complaint, when I scratch the surface a more troubling picture emerges. NINE-YEAR age gap In my experience, it’s modern life and all the stresses and strains it creates for Does Love Island's couples, and in particular men, that is preventing so many becoming fathers. Ellie Brown have a secret ex? Star sparks rumours she 'dumped My waiting room used to be lined with women. When I opened up shop two decades her businessman ago, they made up 95 per cent of my clientele. Today, close to half of my new boyfriend days before entering the villa' referrals are men, and that number is rising. TOWIE's Tommy Mallett That is because we are in the midst of a male fertility crisis… shares throwback snap of his 'number 1' Georgia Kousoulou on HOW INFERTILITY BECAME A MAN’S PROBLEM her 27th birthday...'pre nose job and 20 stone lighter' Take John (not his real name), a 41-year-old banking executive who is a current patient. He told me he felt ‘on top of the world’ when he married his wife, who is six years his junior, and landed a promotion. On the surface, they’re the epitome of success: the good looks, the cars, the holidays, the lovely house in a desirable part of town. But – and this is something Jacqueline Jossa John is unable to admit to even his friends – he and his wife cannot conceive. ‘It’s my ditches her wedding ring after husband Dan swimmers,’ he told me forlornly after tests revealed his low sperm count. Osborne was seen flirting with three But there was seemingly no explanation for the problem. He had no other health swimwear-clad ladies on Vegas stag do issues. But I wasn’t sure things were quite as rosy as John believed. So I start to Sir Lenny Henry question a little deeper, to look for a cause, and sure enough… continues to display his dramatic weight loss at Could it be his crushing 50-hour working week and that nagging fear that he’ll soon charity theatre performance in London be stepped over by the junior executive snapping at his heels? The late nights, early starts, the weight gain and the furious gym sessions he hopes will counteract that? Beaming Queen leads Maybe it was the fact he’d given up alcohol – as many men who are trying for a baby the royals on their do – only to end up having one too many with friends at the weekend? second day at Ascot - but Lady Luck failed to smile on Sophie Wessex According to the Five-Element approach, people stop caring for themselves like this who saw just ONE of her horses come in because something fundamental is off kilter. Billie Faiers shows off Once we’ve discovered this ‘cause’ we can take steps to bring the body, mind and her eye-popping cleavage in stunning spirit back into balance. The igures are well known: the average sperm count has cream gown while nosedived by 52 per cent in the past 40 years. Scientists seem to be in the dark as to fiancé Greg Shepherd flaunts his DAZZLING why. new grin at Ascot Races Men are also leaving fatherhood later than ever. Four decades ago, the average age ADVERTISEMENT of a irst-time dad was 27. Now he’s 31. One in ten are older than 40, and one in 100 are over 50. The result? Well, one in six couples – about 3.5 million people – are now affected by infertility. Very often, after medical tests fail to ind anything physically wrong, the cause is simply given as ‘unexplained’. But I believe that it is a symptom of a wider problem facing men: mental health issues, stress and burn-out. 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