While women need some testosterone, high testosterone in women is a concern for a variety of reasons, such as its connection to PCOS, adrenal issues, and other health conditions, as well as its potential to cause symptoms like irregular menstrual cycles, acne, and fertility challenges. For wome...
Research has often been cited to back up the idea that, perhaps because of their higher testosterone levels, men think more about sex, seek it more actively, and get turned on more easily. Men’s sexuality is like an on-off switch, while women’s sexuality is a complicated network of co...
Interestingly, high T levels can also lead to disturbed sleep and insomnia patterns but it only happens if you take testosterone in high amounts within a short period of time. AnNLM (National Library of Medicine) studyshows that people who misuse anabolic steroids and take high doses of testo...
Suppressing testosterone in post-pubertal males doesn’t remove their performance advantage.Multiple studieshave shown this. So now those lobbying for trans-identifying males to be in women’s sport have come up with a new argument. They say those studies don’t count because they were not done...
Testosterone may be inextricably linked to masculinity, but in fact women have 10 times more of the hormone than oestrogen. Tomorrow, a testosterone patch will be launched that promises to restore the sex drives of women with low libido, a decade after Viagra was made available for the male ...
Women are smarter when they're on their periods 'Period poverty can pose a serious health concern' What’s the difference between PCOS and endo? Why am I so tired during my period? What it’s like to live with life-ruining PMS
Discover the research behind when couples stop having sex, and what you can do to start having more sex again.
Your period, also known as menstruation, typically lasts anywhere from two to eight days. Many women experience symptoms during their period. Certain symptoms
To evaluate basal testosterone (T) levels in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles and examine the association between basal T levels and ovarian response or IVF pregnancy outcome.We retrospectively analyzed 1413 infertile Chinese women undergoing their first IVF treatment at our instituti...
There's not a ton of research on why some women sweat more during their period, but experts say it's most likely a result of hormones just doing their thing. To better understand all of this, let's take a moment to break down a woman’s menstrual cycle, which has four phases in to...