Newfound anxiety about sperm health inspires next generation of fertility services

The founders of Legacy, a sperm-freezing company based at the Harvard Innovation Labs, include Daniel Madero, head of clinic partnerships, Khaled Kteily, chief executive, and Sarah Steinle, head of marketing. By Ariana Eunjung Cha Ariana Eunjung Cha National reporter Email Bio Follow April 25 at 2:36 PM CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gilbert Sanchez froze his sperm in January, shortly before his 25th birthday. He was healthy and at low-risk for fertility issues.

New businesses are capitalizing on those revelations. Start-ups like Trak, Yo and SpermCheck are selling at-home testing kits so men can figure out early on if there’s something amiss with their sperm. Employee benefits companies are debating how to translate the fertility coverage they offer to female employees to their male counterparts. And sperm freezing companies are aiming to turn what has been a sterile, clinical process into something more cool — a 23andMe or Ancestry for sperm.

Tom Smith, Dadi’s chief executive, argued that “men have a biological clock just like women. This gives them the option to start a family when the time is right for them.” While the impact of lifestyle factors on egg quality is still being studied, it’s widely accepted that sperm characteristics can fluctuate by the month or perhaps even day, based on a man’s health, habits, and environment.

Fortunately, they have an easily available, albeit expensive, medical option called ICSI — or intracytoplasmic sperm injection — a procedure invented in 1987 that involves taking a single sperm and injecting it directly into an egg as part of in vitro fertilization. If a man can produce any sperm at all, which all but very few men can do, doctors say they should be able to have biological children through this procedure.Daniel Madero is Legacy’s head of clinic partnerships.

One of the companies is called Yo — like FroYo. Ewww 🤢

Welcome to the tyranny of the biological clock, guys!

Egg health though...meh. There is an overabundance of those right?

Under his eye.

Kinda wondering who would pose for a pic like that for a story like this.

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