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 On Testosterone Levels And Risk-Taking In Young Men Finds Women Do Make Men Throw Caution To The WindJim Gilden
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...
The basal testosterone (T) levels in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the relationship between basal T levels and ovarian response or IVF pregnancy outcome were determined. These patients did not have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or endometriosis, and were treated with a long...
Men and pre-menopausal women (all women between 13 to about 50) both produce testosterone but the amount of testosterone levels in women is considerably lower than men. Testosterone plays a great part in a person’s libido (their sex drive). With so much testosterone running through a man’...
Testosterone is known as the forgotten hormone, especially in menopause, as many medical providers do not pay attention to the signs of its decline. Menopausal and perimenopausal women who have fatigue, muscle atrophy, weakness, low libido, and low sexual sensation often have low testosterone. Pres...
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...
For many decades, clinical evidence has suggested that gonadal hormones may be partially responsible for the sex differences that have been found in schizophrenia [27,28]. This is because physiological estrogen fluctuations in women have been observed to affect symptom levels. Estrogens serve many neu...
Sex differences in the nature and timing of puberty may have differential effects on brain development, affecting behavior and persisting into adulthood. In females, the gonadarchic pubertal process, the phase of puberty characterized by sex-specific increases in estrogen and testosterone levels, begins...
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