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In a recent article, feminist writer Gail Sheehy detailed what is being called "viropause syndrome." Not only is this male equivalent of menopause an actual condition, she reports, it's worse than the original female version.

Menopause is a period in every woman's life usually associated with physical changes. Most of the symptoms associated with this period of transition are known to be hot flashes, irritation and cold sweats. But menopause has other manifestations as well, such as depression.

Some women consider the menopause period a shameful moment in their life, and the felling amplifies especially when menopause hot flashes happen. Most of the women can't escape experiencing this unpleasant menopause symptom.

Menopause is a very difficult period in a woman's life; apart from the fact that is a natural sign of aging, a woman experiences a whole range of symptoms that can be sometimes very confusing and thus some of them mistaken for a health problem. However, there is no reason to consider menopause an illness.

Menopause is a period in every woman's life when the body goes to some important changes announcing letting the woman know about the start of the aging process. For most of the women this is a time for mental changes as well, since many questions related to their future life arouse during this period.

Until recently, menopause was thought to be a physical change undergone only by women.

Not until recently it has been discussed the theme of male menopause or adropause (the specific term coined for it). Male menopause it is usually defined as a hormonal change undergone by men between 40 and 60 years old, a change that manifest itself through a range of unpleasant symptoms like depression, feelings of doubt about oneself, bad temper, lower sexual capacity, loss of hair.

Until recently, when men and women came close to the age of 50 we could speak about changes going on with them; for women menopause was the main change that put them under a lot of physical transformation; as for men, we always talked about what was generally called a mid-life crisis and we could never imagine male menopause exists.

Nowadays most people know that menopause is not only a women's characteristic, but rather e phase that men also go through. They too experience hot flashes and night sweats, they too have troubles getting a good night sleep during this period, often lose their temper and change their mood continuously. This generally happens with men somewhere between their 40s and 50s.

Blame all the attention on baby boomers. More than 30 million women - including Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore - are fast approaching middle age and they want to be ready.

Time and other magazines splash it on their covers. Books about the subject fill bookstore shelves and have become best-sellers. Oprah Winfrey and her competitors explore it in television.