Why I believe testosterone could improve the lives of millions of men, in the same way HRT has worked for women, by leading GP and health expert PHILIPPA KAYE By Dr Philippa Kaye Published: 06:58 EDT, 23 June 2024 | Updated: 07:13 EDT, 23 June 2024 e-mail View comments Dismissed. Treated as a joke. Told simply to get on with it.
Until a few years ago, this was how menopausal women were treated. There’s still a long way to go, of course, but we’ve made huge strides forward. For too long women were told their debilitating mood swings, hot flushes and insomnia – now known to be directly linked to plummeting hormone levels, and treatable with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) – were empty nest syndrome or depression .
But what if I told you that some men are enduring surprisingly similar issues now? And that many are suffering from a little-understood hormonal condition – this one linked directly to a decline in the male sex hormone testosterone, which can also cause life-changing symptoms – which is being dismissed and under-treated in the same way? Let me first be really clear: what I’m not saying is that there is such a thing as the male menopause . Before and after: How Stephen Webb responded to testosterone treatment Despite loud claims to the contrary, often from muscled-up testosterone aficionados on TikTok and Instagram who like to insist most men would benefit from testosterone-based HRT, the male menopause doesn’t exist. Only women who eventually stop ha.
