In aged men, there is no direct relationship between hormonal imbalance and sexual dysfunction, frequent mood swings, fatigue — symptoms similar to those that accompany female menopause. This is the conclusion of the latest study by scientists at the University of Manchester.
In aged men, there is no direct relationship between hormonal imbalance and sexual dysfunction, frequent mood swings, fatigue — symptoms similar to those that accompany female menopause. This is the conclusion of the latest study by scientists at the University of Manchester (UK)*.
Psychologies: Does this mean that male menopause (andropause) does not exist?
Roman Rozhivanov: Yes it is. Comparing their own feelings to the symptoms of female menopause, men worry that their sexual and reproductive decline is also irreversible. In fact, age-related erectile dysfunction and lack of sexual desire against the background of a decrease in the level of the main male hormone testosterone — what many people call andropause in everyday language — is a disease that can be treated. Its medical name is age-related hypogonadism. Among 40-60-year-olds, about 40% of men suffer from it. Causes — overweight, lack of physical activity, heart disease, diabetes.
So, female menopause and age-related hormonal dysfunction in men are phenomena of a different order?
RR: In women after 45, menopause is inevitable; it means the fading of the ability to bear children, in a few years the ovaries completely stop producing sex hormones. In men after 40 years, testosterone levels decrease, but very slowly — by about 1-2% per year. But they can still have children.
* See more about this on the popular science resource www.livescience.com/health