Andropause

Andropause (male Menopause) are symptoms caused by declining hormones in men. Like the menopause in women, it is caused by a decline in hormones primarily testosterone, growth hormone and DHEA. Replacing these hormones to optimal levels can and will reverse the effects of Andropause.

Hormones start to decline in mid to late twenties and that is when the aging process sets in. We maintain fairly healthy hormone levels until age 35 to 40 and that is about how long we could be expected to live until about 100 years ago. The effects of declining hormones have only been a problem since we started living longer. Declining hormones, coupled with poor lifestyle, diet, exercise and high stress are largely responsible for health problems and frailties of later years.

It seems that men, after forty-five, often have a hard time rising to the occasion and dealing with the challenge of daily stresses. This is what is known as Andropause or male Menopause. So why do most men not know anything about Andropause? It has only been recently that Andropause has received attention and recognition, but why the holdup? There are many reasons behind the stifling of its discovery along with many frames of mind that are still hindering its cure.

Because female Menopause is so sudden and violent, ways to maneuver around its life altering effects and health diminishing aftermath have been under microscopic observation for decades. Doctors and scientists are well aware of the ramifications due to the absence of estrogen and progesterone. In the mean time men have kept their focus from themselves and their own hormonal induced weaknesses. Why?

• The fact that it comes on so gradual, many men accommodate to the change.

• Ignorance. Men do not talk or complain since it is not the "manly thing to do". Boys learn form their fathers to rise above their afflictions and never give the slightest indication of weakness. Our men patients here at the clinic talk openly about their needs. But each of them would also admit that they had difficulty making that first call and that they still can not admit or talk to their friends about their hormone replacement.

• Male pride is often a man's greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

The truth is, men are blasted with a reality check during their mid-forties. Their hormone levels have dropped sufficiently that the erection that once greeted them in the morning ceases while their muscle definition fades and they notice they are getting a bit flabby around the middle. "It's all part of aging," they are told and they settle grudgingly into old age.

That is the past. The present and future is bright. There is a solution, there is a cure, and that is to replace lost hormones.

• Testosterone, Growth Hormone and DHEA start to decline in mid to late twenties. That is when the aging process begins in earnest.
• Decreased hormone levels are not “normal for your age” (a phrase used by doctors who do not know how to treat it).
• Hypogonadism and Andropause is a health problem that requires treatment.
• Medical science has known it is possible to regain youth by replacing hormones since the early 1990’s.
• Hormones do not decline because we age – we age because hormones decline.
• There is a simple and effective treatment – replace hormones like testosterone, DHEA and/or Growth Hormone to optimal levels.

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