That usually means testosterone replacement therapy. But a urology professor at Dalhousie medical school said testosterone replacement therapy can be dangerous for older men because it causes prostate cancer. But nobody has proven there is any male menopause. He suspects the major push behind recognizing the condition is from the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture hormone replacements. One such company, Organon Canada, commissioned the Angus Reid poll.
Menopausal women stop ovulating, which means they can no longer conceive children.
But decreasing hormones do not have the same effect on a man's sexual potency - just sexual desire, Dr. Tewari said. The sperm keep producing. That's everybody who's a normal person who has that. Everybody has to prove themselves that, 'Hey, I'm 50, but I can still go. Some people are built like that.