The Therapy Room with Rhu

If it isn’t just age, what changed? I went back to the 1970s to look at how we eat, work and live, and what it might mean for men reaching andropause

Testosterone decline in men is usually blamed on age. The research suggests sleep, stress and food matter far more than we think, and that’s hopeful news.

A recent editorial on 'couplepause' warns that treating menopause and andropause as a couple's shared experience risks assuming both partners are going through the same thing. They're not, and here's what that difference actually looks like, inside a real household.

By Rhu Strand, Functional Wellness Practitioner and Workplace Wellness Consultant - June 2026 There's an argument that keeps cropping up, in conversations with couples I know and within the menopause group that I co-run. It doesn't usually start as an argument about anything specific. It begins with one partner feeling quietly hurt that the other doesn't seem to care anymore. Meanwhile, the other partner feels quietly accused of something they don't understand. Neither of th