Why Don’t Men Get Osteoporosis If It Is Caused By Estrogen Deficiency In Postmenopausal Women?
It is true that men don’t have as much of the hormone estrogen as women. But the male hormone androgen, which normal men have in considerable supply, appears to exert similar protective effects on the skeleton. Men who have an insufficient supply of androgen do get osteoporosis, the loss of bone mass that often occurs in old age
