Let’s talk about the ‘MANOPAUSE’
e’ve all heard of the menopause but might not be quite so familiar with the ‘manopause’, male menopause or ‘andropause’ as it’s known to medics. Many experts find the comparison with the menopause unhelpful as it implies that men experience a sudden drop in testosterone levels during midlife, similar to what happens to a woman’s estrogen levels during their forties and fifties. This is not the case: rather, a man’s testosterone levels tend to climb during their twenties (peaking at the age of 30), before testosterone production begins to decline steadily at
