Hormonally speaking, middle-aged men coast while women brake hard

When women reach menopause, their hormones hit the brakes hard. Hormonal changes in middle-aged men are less drastic. Their bodies' production of testosterone, the main male sex hormone, declines gradually.

This is why many experts reject the term "male menopause," or "andropause", for members of the stronger sex, who have just had the best years of their lives.

"Age-related hypogonadism" would be an apter description, according to Professor Sabine Kliesch, a urologist at Muenster University Hospital in Germany and spokesperson for the German Society of Andrology (DGA).