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Male menopause - myth or reality?

...Testosterone is not only responsible for the sex drive, but is also partly responsible for general drive and vitality, aggression, maintaining strong and healthy bones, maintaining strong blood thereby preventing anaemia, and maintaining lean muscle mass.

It is no wonder that athletes, hoping to gain an unfair competitive advantage, commonly abuse analogues of this hormone.From the late 20s onwards the level of the active component of testosterone in the bloodstream (free testosterone) starts to decline and continues inexorably until its level may cross a threshold value in a particular man whereby symptoms such as those described above may appear.

If this man goes to his doctor complaining of these symptoms and is found to have a low free testosterone for his age he may be diagnosed as having PADAM.There are some problems though - the symptoms of PADAM are very non-specific and could equally result from depression or from PADAM; there are no universally accepted a...

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