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The same physical changes happen to men as happen to women.

Some, not all. For example, osteoporosis occurs more frequently in postmenopausal women than in men the same age.

If you look at a 20 year old man and woman and then at a 70 year old man and woman, it's apparent.

It is apparent they are older. Not apparent is that the changes of aging are due to hormonal changes.

You don't see many 50 year old men able to compete with 20 year old men in sports which require testosterone.

What is the evidence they "require testosterone? For example, young women athletes, particularly distance runners with minimal body fat are capable of great athletic performances, but have very low level, in many cases, of estrogen and have no menstrual cycle because of that...almost a menopausal picture.

Mr. Cogburn: Read the TESTOSTERONE SYNDROME by Eugene Shippen, M.D. Let me quote an excerpt. "Testoserone deficiency has been an unrecognized syndrome that impacts every sinew and cell in the body. It is powerfully linked to nearly every major degenerative disease. Use of this remarkable healing hormone could reverse suffering and prevent early death. Test. decline is at the core of male menopause. In women, there is an explosion of in-your-face symptoms, while men's very similar symptoms sneak in the back door unexpectedly like a thief in the night. Too often, loss of energy, ambition, sexual drive, and a host of minor symptons ar written off as 'burnout' or depression. Women, meanwhile, have already learned that hormone replacement results in reversal of the physcial changes of menopause. Men, confronted by an information vacuum, need to make the same discovery." In my husband's practice, he replaces many men with test. supplementation. What a huge diffenence! (he and I are replaced with test. supplementation also.) I am not disputing the fact that older men become accomplished lovers....BUT physically they decline due to lesser and lesser Test. levels. We want our male patient test. levels in the range that they had in their late teens to early twenties for optimal health. (they supplement with levels of a 17 y/o for men who have heart disease and diabetes in Europe with good results) Consequently, their lovemakeing, on a physical scale, improves dramatically. Jane

I guess the word menopause really only means the shutting down of the monthly cycle which men don't have. But still you can see the effects of lessened testosterone at similar ages women show the effects of lessened estrogen. It's better for both to accept this as natural and realize artificial estrogens and testosterones are harmful and so is viagra.