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Testosterone for Women—the Most Powerful Yet Neglected Hormone


Published November 24, 2015

Women-Need-Testosterone-TooWhen you hear the word testosterone you may think of bodybuilders and men looking to enhance virility.  After all, there is no widely-marketed commercial testosterone product available for women—yet.  According to my female patients’ stories, when asking the family doctor about testosterone, they are often met with a shrug, a chuckle and a negative comment or simple statement such as, “I don’t prescribe testosterone for women.”  The doctor often follows that comment with, “it hasn’t been studied enough”   or “we don’t yet know about its safety.”  Men can have all the testosterone they want, but when for women, testosterone therapy and its benefits seem to be out of the realm of possibility.

Facts on Testosterone Therapy for Women

 What is testosterone and why do women need it?

Testosterone is an adrenal steroid hormone, derived from the molecule cholesterol. In women who have not yet reached menopause, testosterone is produced by the ovaries in a pulsatile fashion, with the levels fluctuating up and down as many as 15 times per hour, as confirmed by salivary hormone tests. In women who have reached menopause, testosterone is largely produced by the adrenal glands, but in much smaller amounts.

Testosterone production is greatly affected by stress. When significant career or personal stressors present or if there are internal stressors, such as a poor diet and fluctuating blood sugar levels, lack of a consistent long-duration sleep pattern, inflammation or infection (often without symptoms), the body will shunt steroid hormone production toward the stress hormone cortisol and away from testosterone production. This is why many young patients have low testosterone levels on testing. They are capable of producing testosterone but they are producing large amounts of stress hormones in its place. This causes emotional problems, hunger and weight gain.

 What does testosterone do?

Testosterone exerts its powerful mental and physical benefits in two ways:

Besides improving body shape, testosterone increases the speed of healing of injuries and also promotes improvement in organ function, especially the heart (progressive cardiologists have found that testosterone increases cardiac output for patients with congestive heart failure).

For many people, correcting low levels of testosterone helps improve self-esteem, behavior, ambition, and career and family relationships. Countless patients have reported that with testosterone therapy, productivity, success, and happiness are enhanced, as well as sexual wellbeing.

Testosterone FAQs

How is testosterone administered to women and what are the costs?

Are there any common side effects?

 

What about safety concerns?

Will testosterone increased breast cancer risk?

How can I get started on testosterone?

As it is a cutting edge form of treatment, requiring special training and experience concerning forms of administration, dosing and monitoring,  women who are interested in receiving testosterone should have it prescribed and managed by a physician who is fellowship trained in the use of bioidentical hormones.  My colleagues with BodyLogicMD and I have received this type of specialized training and each of us have managed hundreds of women with testosterone therapy successfully over many years.   To find out more about becoming a patient, please contact CenterMD today.

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