Melbourne
BAD-TEMPERED? Nervous? Easily reduced to tears? If you are a man, you could
be suffering from irritable male syndrome.
This newly recognised condition plays havoc with male animals, temporarily
turning confident, chest-beating Tarzans into withdrawn, grumpy wimps. And
there’s some evidence that irritable male syndrome, which is triggered by a
sudden drop in testosterone, affects men as well as animals, says Gerald Lincoln
of the Medical Research Council’s Human Reproductive Sciences Unit in
Edinburgh.
The symptoms may resemble those of the so-called male menopause, but Lincoln
believes the condition can affect men of any age when stress causes testosterone…
