Most young men are dreading the day when their six-pack abs will bloat into a permanent beer belly, they will grow breasts and lose their libido.
Is it inevitable to look like this when you are middle-aged? Big Pharma would like us to believe that. But there is a lot you can do yourself to prevent such a body transformation.
Testosterone decline, which occurs naturally during age, was long thought to be sole reason for these middle-aged transformations. However, new evidence from Massachusetts General Hospital suggests estrogen – more commonly associated with female menopause – mediates some symptoms of “andropause” in men.
The idea of male menopause has solidified itself into medical culture in recent years, which has been matched by a tremendous boost in doctor’s prescriptions for testosterone supplements.
A 500 percent increase in prescriptions was recorded between 1993 and 2000, and this pattern continued over the course of the following decade.
