Low T :

Low Testosterone, or Low T. ;D

The syndrome even has its own website, isitlowt.com :

funded by the pharmaceutical company Abbvie. Men are encouraged to take a Low T "quiz"

asking them questions like :

"Are you sad and / or grumpy ?

Do you have a lack of energy ?

Are you falling asleep after dinner ?

Prescriptions for testosterone drugs have shot up around the world over the last decade.

But there is growing concern that they are being over-used and may not be safe.

Either an epidemic of lethargy is sweeping men around the world,

or the message from the pharmaceutical industry is getting through.  :-[

Since 2001, prescriptions in the US have more than tripled :

to an estimated 3% of men over 40 - 1.7 million men.

In the UK, prescriptions roughly doubled over the same period, and the global market

for the drugs has increased 12-fold.

comedian Stephen Colbert jokes, Low T is :

"a pharmaceutical-company-recognised condition affecting millions of men

with low testosterone, previously known as getting older".  ::LOL::

"Testosterone levels affect quality of life - that is very clear indeed,"

says Dr Hugh Jones, Professor of Andrology at Sheffield University.

"If you talk to the patients that I have on testosterone they are doing more.

It's happened several times that people who like dancing couldn't dance

and they can dance again."