Is there anything you can do about the fertility biological clock?

This biological clock actually has really two problems for the individual, but also for society. There are many countries now that have declining birth rates. This is a real problem because there's going to come a time where there aren't enough young people earning for the ageing population. If we also have couples that are not trying to conceive until later in life, this is going to compound the problem. That's exactly what's happening now in many countries around the world. And what can we do about this problem? Well, it's two fold. You can either have as a social view and society does nothing about it, or we have an individual view that society can latch onto. Now, what do I mean by that? On the individual view, there's practitioners like myself that wants to try to help couples achieve what they themselves want to achieve. Lifestyle is lifestyle. It's very easy and glib to say, Well, women should just have their children younger. It doesn't work like that in society anymore. We've been trying to work on technologies which we now have that have become very effective in freezing a woman's eggs. So it's very possible now, and this wasn't there about five years ago, for a woman to come in and early 30s and to have an egg frozen. Not only do we now have strategies to help couples afford to do that, we have an egg save programme, for example, that allows them to do that. There are global companies that are starting to support their own staff. We know that Apple, Google, Facebook. We also know that Japan is so concerned about its declining birth rate that it's starting to think about funding women to have their eggs frozen when they're young as a potential insurance. Similarly, men. Now that we know these issues about men and the subtleties that can affect the live born later in life, it's always been possible to freeze men's sperm, so maybe we should be doing more freezing of men's sperm because that's always been successful. Now we have the opportunity to both men and women if they know within their own lifestyle, their own personal experience, they're not likely to start having a family until later in life, probably to mid to late 30s, then early 30s they can start to freeze their eggs or their sperm and keep them banked for potential use in the future. There's one very important additional point here. We always seem to think about having a child, but lots of couples and people actually want more than one child. If you start to think about having a child when you're 34, 35. Let's say you succeed, because there is a condition now that's growing called secondary infertility. That is where you've had a child successfully quite easily and you can't seem to have the second child. Well, for those who are struggling for the first and for those who are in this secondary infertility situation in your mid to late 30s, by the time you get some success, so if you go through IVF for your first and you're now 35, 36, you're now two years older and have compounded the ageing problem, and you're now going to try to conceive with your eggs when you're 37 and 38. Much greater problem, much higher chance of miscarriage, et cetera. Whereas if you'd stored your eggs when you were 32, there's a pool there that you could use. So, there are strategies now available to couples which also society could use if they want to try to protect the declining population.