Both men and women go through natural hormonal changes over their lifetime. While women experience a relatively abrupt drop in oestrogen and progesterone levels during menopause, testosterone levels will generally peak in men when they’re in their 20s and gradually decline with age. Unlike women, men can continue to reproduce well into their senior years. This is where terms such as male menopause and manopause can be misleading. While menopause is a natural and inevitable process for ageing women, a reduction of testosterone production doesn’t necessarily happen to every ageing man.
So, what’s manopause and who gets it?
If a man’s testes aren’t producing enough testosterone for the body to function normally, this is known as manopause (colloquially), andropause, testosterone deficiency or low T. Testosterone is one
