It need not necessarily have a bearing on a man's sex life. It is then not synonymous with the male menopause although there is frequently a superimposition of male menopausal factors in middle-aged men going through crises and this makes the picture some what hazy. Sometimes referred to as the baby boomer curse which even adds more confusion to understanding the actual problem. M ale menopause, is a distinct physiological phenomenon that is in many way's very similar to, yet in some ways quite different from the female menopause. Menopause is a condition most often associated with women, It occurs in a women when she ceases to menstruate and can no longer become pregnant.
Men experience a different type of 'menopause' of life change.
It usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 60. Testosterone is the hormone that stimulates sexual development in the male infant, bone and muscle growth in adult males, and is responsible for sexual drive. It has been found that even in healthy men, by the age the 50's, the amount of testosterone secreted into the bloodstream is significantly lower than it is just ten - fifteen years earlier. In fact, by age 80, most male hormone levels decrease to pre-puberty levels. In the year 1944, what we now describe as the male menopause was reported in a key article by two American doctors, Dr. Carl Heller and Dr. Gordon Myers.