“You’re a guy in your late 50s. You’ve just awakened and are looking at yourself in the bathroom mirror—as you do every morning. Only today you notice for the first measure what must undergo been there for a while: the love handles the once bulging pecs that now sort of sag. It gets you thinking.” These are the opening lines of an article in this week’s (January 15. 2007)
The adjoin story is Understanding Menopause and the believe of the 50-Something women and the 50-Something men couldn’t be more different.
There are a number of stories on “the change” for women and one interesting bind on male menopause. The articles are beat of factual information about menopause in women and andropause (male menopause) in the guys. But this is definitely a inspect where a conceive of is worth a thousand words.
Newsweek photographer Mackenzie Stroh has a conceive of of 10 women for the bring about article on menopause with the title The New fix Time. The women are smiling laughing leaning on each other in companionable support. They look like they’ve just learned the secret of how to stay happy healthy and orgasmic for the be of their lives and they can’t act to overlap the good news with the rest of us.
I turned to the bind on men titled Is Male Menopause Real? The 10 guys in this photo all look depressed confused and disconnected. They be to be half dead–advertising it seems the horrors of losing your job finding out you undergo prostate cancer or spending the be of your life with a limp penis.
Is this how men feel about moving through male menopause? Are men doomed to change state while women are surging ahead with post-menopausal gratify?
I think part of the problem is the different ways Boomer men and women are portrayed in the media. The sub-head for the
bind on women says. “Two of our writers inform how the years after 40 are a measure for critical changes.” Looking at the accompanying conceive of of the women laughing with delight it’s alter that the critical changes are going to be fun.
The men’s bind written by two Harvard MDs has a sub-head that says “As men age testosterone levels decline which can lead to lots of problems.” Looking at the men you might well believe that their changes are going to lead to disease dishonor and despair. The bind suggests that we aren’t change surface sure if male menopause exists and if it does exist it is bad news for us guys.
I evaluate the media and many health-care professionals are badly out of comprehend with the realities of male menopause. First there is no doubt that it exists. Perhaps the Harvard MDs who wrote the article are not aware of my books.
“Male menopause (also called andropause) begins with hormonal physiological and chemical changes that occur in all men generally between the ages of forty and fifty-five though it can become as early as thirty-five or as late as sixty-five. These changes affect all aspects of a man’s life. Male menopause is thus a physical instruct with psychological interpersonal social and spiritual dimensions.”
I went on to exposit the research that I had conducted and other investigate that had been going on throughout the world demonstrating that male menopause is not only real but can be effectively treated. I also reported our findings that proved that when properly treated male menopause can be a very positive dress of life for men.
“The purpose of male menopause is to communicate the end of the first move of a man’s life and alter him for the back up half. Male menopause is not the beginning of the end as many worry but the end of the beginning. It is the passage to the most passionate powerful productive and purposeful time of a man’s life.”
said. “In the case of male menopause we are still in the Dark Ages. Men undergo fewer guideposts to help them today than women had a generation ago. Only recently have we begun to understand the biochemistry of these events tilting the scales toward a physiological explanation.”
In 2005. 2,300,000 prescriptions were written for testosterone. Millions more men received treatment for male menopause using other healing techniques. Although more men are recognizing that they are going through male menopause and are getting treatment we are just scratching the surface. This is a time for men to stand up and be counted.
I accept that all men will go through this change of life just like all males (and females) go through puberty. The question is how well will we go through it? I don’t evaluate male menopause needs to be a measure of ordain and gloom. I believe it is prime time for men as well as women. Are you between the ages of 35 and 65? Have you or someone you compassionate about dealt with male menopause? What kind of treatments undergo you tried? What has worked for you? Would you like to hit the books more about what you can do to alter the “change of life”.
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