Gastropause

We're all aware—especially women—of menopause, when women's ovaries reduce and then stop secreting oestrogens, progesterone, and a bit of testosterone.

- Jonathan V. Wright

Men's testosterone levels decline with time, (a process termed "andropause") of course much more slowly than women. However, since all of our bodies have been saturated with thousands of pesticides, herbicides, and other killer molecules never, ever present on planet Earth before the 20th century, men's testosterone levels have started to decline at significantly earlier ages than ever before. Many more men have become aware of andropause at significantly younger ages than all of their male ancestors.

Since the beginnings of comprehensive bio-identical hormone therapy ("BHRT," which was first done at Tahoma Clinic in the early 1980s), literally hundreds of thousands of post-menopausal women have observed that they're staying healthier for significantly longer than post-menopausal women not using BHRT. As "bonus points", most post-menopausal women using BHRT for a decade or more have noticed that they don't appear to be aging at the same rate as post-menopausal women of the same age not using BHRT.

We men are (as women sometimes say) slower than women to actively take care of our own health. However, we are faster—for obvious-to-men reasons—to do something about our declining testosterone levels, and doing that as part of male BHRT has the same effectiveness in promoting healthy longevity as BHRT does for women.