​Hot Flash
 
If your husband’s sweat doesn’t stop in a cool room where AC is on, it can be caused by male menopause.
 
1. Why does hot flash suddenly happen when you have male menopause?
The decrease of male hormone causes a malfunction of hypothalamus in the brain where controls the body temperature.
 
2. How is the hot flash in male menopause differentiated from normal heat in the body?
The difference is that the hot flash happens with mental symptoms such as depression, anxiety, etc.
 
Treatment of Male Menopause
 
In the case that male hormone level is low, it is general to inject male hormone. Chinese herbs are used to suppress the symptoms (in Japan). Hormone replacement can make the beard thick. That means if the number of shaving decreases, that can be a sign of male menopause.
 
Anxiety
 
If your husband can’t throw things away due to anxiety or is anxious about the work he is accustomed to, they can be caused by male menopause.
 
1. Why does he get anxious?
The amigdada in the brain secretes a substance causing anxiety while male hormone suppresses the secretion. So if the male hormone decreases, the substance spreads out to the whole body.
 
2. What happens if anxiety caused by male menopause is left as it is?
Leaving anxiety as it is can cause depression. Continuous stressful condition causes the secretion of a lot of stress substance, leading to depression. That damages the nerve cells in the brain, worsening the depression. It is important to notice as early as possible.
 

What is male menopause?
 
Q1. Male menopause is medically a disease. True or False?
Q2. What decrease in the body causes male menopause?
Q3. The main reasons that male hormone decreases are aging and what?
Q4. Which age does male menopause often start to decrease from? (A) 45 (B) 55 (C) 65
Q5. What is a major symptom in male menopause?
Q6. There is a medicine for male menopause. True or False?
 
A1. True
A2. Male hormone
A3. Stress
A4. (A) 45, recently it’s been getting younger like 40 or 30’s possibly due to a stress society.
A5. Mental problems such as depression or anxiety. Decrease of male hormone causes weight gain so called metabolic syndrome, leading to hardness of arteries and then serious diseases like heart attack. According to a research, the risk of cancer also rises.
A6. True.
 
3 Major Symptoms (Anger, Hot-flush, Anxiety)
 
Anger
 
(1) Why do they easily get angry by having male menopause?
The decrease of male hormone imbalances the autonomic nervous system, making sympathetic nerve become advantageous. The sympathetic nerve works when stressed while the parasympathetic nerve works when relaxed. The advantage of the sympathetic nerve encourages the secretion of adrenalin which is a substance causing anger.
 
a. Male hormone usually suppresses a runaway of the sympathetic nerve.
b. When male hormone decreases, the sympathetic nerve works, leading to the secretion of a lot of adrenalin.
 
(2) How to differentiate from normal anger
The point is whether or not he gets angry at something he didn’t get angry at before.
 
(3) Does harmful effect occur if he gets angry too much?
When his anger becomes bigger, his blood pressure should be higher.
 
(4) How to calm down the anger
The emotion of anger is strongest for the first 6 seconds after it starts. So if you can think of something else or see other things to fend off what you get angry at, you can cool down your anger.
 
Food expected to Prevent Male Menopause (Part-I)
 
Q1. Which is better for drinking beer with to prevent male menopause? (A) Edamame (B) Beef jerky
A1. (B) Beef jerky. Because zinc contained in beef jerky helps the production of male hormone.
 
Q2. Which is better for another dish to prevent male menopause? (A) Cold tofu (B) Raw oyster
A2. (B) Raw oyster. Because oyster is rich in zinc.
 
Q3. Which is better for desert to prevent male menopause? (A) Watermelon (B) Pineapple
A3. (A) Watermelon. The white part of watermelon contains citrulline which promotes the secretion of male hormone