One obvious source for the rumours about hormones and a man’s need to have booster injections of testosterone is attributed to the practice of those doctors and clinics who until recently made a habit of prescribing injections or hormone tablets as an easy way of treating the male-menopause in the apparent belief that if you give a man something to improve the performance of his penis, whether it works or not, he will believe in its efficacy and so will be miraculously cured of all his ills. A short course of hormone therapy can revive energy, health and libido in men after sixty but rarely is it any use to men around forty whose own production remains unimpaired and far from deficient.

In puberty testosterone is the masculinizing hormone that amongst its other actions makes the penis grow and pubic hair appear. By sixteen a man is at the peak of his fertility, a peak that lasts until he is about twenty when the production of testosterone slackens and slows down. This decline, however, is barely noticeable and years later around forty the fertility count remains high unless there has been an acute physical problem or illness. With the passage of time the production of testosterone continues slowing but the reduction is nonetheless hardly noticeable before a man reaches sixty. Some men go well into their seventies full of vigour and virility and start new families. Pablo Picasso and Charlie Chaplin are two fine examples.

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