Facts about Andropause:

• Testosterone, growth hormone and DHEA start to decline in mid to late twenties. That is when the aging process of Andropause begins in earnest.
  
  
• Decreased hormone levels are not “normal for your age” (a phrase used by doctors who do not know how to treat it). Andropause is a health problem that requires treatment.
  
  
• Medical science has known it is possible to regain youth by replacing hormones since the early 1990’s.
  
  
• Hormones do not decline because we age – we age because hormones decline.
  
  
• There is a simple and effective treatment – replace hormones, testosterone, DHEA and/or growth hormone to younger healthier levels.
  
  

Hormones start to decline in the mid to late twenties and that is when the aging process sets in. We maintain fairly healthy hormone levels until age 35 to 40 and that is about how long we could be expected to live until about 100 years ago. The effects of declining hormones have only been a problem since we started living longer. Declining hormones, coupled with poor lifestyle, diet, exercise and stress are largely responsible for health problems and frailties of later years. The good news is these signs of aging can be easily reversed.

Age 35 is a good time to begin, and you are never too old. We have men in their 80’s who have found a new life.

The whole idea of men going through menopause, or andropause and needing hormone replacement therapy is "de-masculinizing". Virility is a man's second nature and when hormonal changes occur, usually starting to be felt around age 35, men see marked continual decline in abilities they once perceived to be as easy as breathing. Men find erections are not as frequent as they once were, sex is not as exciting because ejaculation is not as powerful and the stamina and endurance they once experienced in both work and play has dropped as well.

It seems that men, after forty-five, often have a hard time rising to the occasion and challenge of daily stresses. This is what is known as andropause or male menopause. So why do most men not know anything about andropause? It has only been recently that andropause has received attention and recognition, but why the holdup? There are many reasons behind the stifling of its discovery, along with many frames of mind that are still hindering its cure.

Why does Andropause go unnoticed so often?
Because female menopause is so sudden and violent, ways to maneuver around its life altering effects and health diminishing aftermath have been under microscopic observation for decades. Doctors and scientists are well aware of the ramifications due to the absence of estrogen and progesterone. In the mean time men have kept their focus from themselves and their own hormonal induced weaknesses.

• The fact that it comes on so gradual, many men accommodate to the change.
  
  
• Men do not talk or complain since it is not the "manly thing to do". Boys learn form their fathers to rise above their afflictions and never give the slightest indication of weakness. Our men patients here at the clinic talk openly about their needs. But each of them would also admit that they had difficulty making that first call and that they still can not admit or talk to their friends about their hormone replacement.
  
  
• Male pride is often a man's greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
  
  

The truth is, men are blasted with a reality check during their mid-forties. Their hormone levels have dropped sufficiently that the erection that once greeted them in the morning ceases while their muscle definition fades and they notice they are getting a bit flabby around the middle. "It's all part of aging," they are told and they settle grudgingly into old age.

That is the past. The present and future is bright. There is a solution, there is a cure, and that is to replace lost hormones.

• In the first two months he will notice an increase in mental quickness and a general improved enthusiasm for daily life.
  
  
• After about three to four months he will notice more energy and an increase in sex drive demonstrated by night dreams, spontaneous erections and an overall increased interest in sex.
  
  
• After his hormones are at a healthy level, there will be a greater interest in being more active. If the man is in fact more active and depending on the nature of that activity, he can expect a further improvement in energy, endurance, muscle tone and reduced fat. Remember the energy, enthusiasm for life and sex drive at age 25 – 30? That is what you can expect if you get your hormones to a healthy level.