Men experience significant difficulty aging due to physiological changes and strict masculinity scripts emphasizing sexual potency, making erectile decline feel like a loss of identity and masculinity.
Men and women both experience hormonal aging with mood, cognition, sleep, metabolism, libido and muscle changes, but onset, pace, and social responses differ.
Experts Say Men Can Suffer Their Own Version Of Menopause Called "Irritable Male Syndrome"
Gradual testosterone decline in aging men can produce an irritable male syndrome marked by mood, cognitive, sexual, energy, muscle, fat, and sleep changes.