MALE MENOPAUSE – HORMONES
Supplements of oestrogen prescribed by a doctor can counteract most of these side effects and restore normality but they will not make a woman fertile again. After her menopause a woman loses the capacity to reproduce.
As men do not have a menstrual cycle nor a sudden cessation of hormone production the term male-menopause is used figuratively to allude only to a comparable decline in a man’s life. But it is a psychological descent. Aging does not inevitably harm male potency and only after the mid-fifties is the production of testosterone in some men declining to any noticeable degree. However, it never reaches zero level.
Any serious loss of testosterone production found in men around forty is directly attributable to physical disfunction brought on by other causes, not the male-menopause. For them a short course of hormone therapy adjusts the imbalance.
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