In How Doctors Think, for example, Dr. Jerome Groopman notes that the medical community has yet to confirm whether men experience a kind of menopause. He states that in spite of little research showing clear benefits from hormone therapy to middle-aged men suffering from low levels of hormones, declining muscular strength, and reduced sexual desire, doctors heavily promote male hormone treatments, thereby generating booming sales of hormone products.
一書中指出，目前醫界仍未證實男性是否也有「更年期」，且到目前為止，研究發現男性賀爾蒙療法對賀爾蒙略有缺少，導致肌肉無力、性慾衰減症狀的中老年男性無明顯助益，但在許多醫師大力促銷下，男性賀爾蒙藥品仍舊大賣。