Explore how estrogen and testosterone impact fertility, offering insights into their roles and holistic approaches to the struggle to get pregnant.
Estrogen and testosterone are on the rise during the week leading up to ovulation and they steadily start increasing your libido. Many women report better sex during this week, likely because we're feeling our friskiest, but be careful: You're also most fertile during this time and can get...
Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent, benign condition, affecting 10–15% of women of reproductive age. It is associated with a prevalence of sexual dysfunction that is nearly twice as high as that seen in women with other benign gynecological conditions. Our study aimed to assess the...
Estrogenis closely linked with the emotional well-being of women, people assigned female at birth (AFAB), and those assigned male at birth (AMAB). Depression and anxiety affect you more often during your estrogen-producing years than when you don't make the hormone. Estrogen also plays a ro...
Lust, driven by the desire for sexual gratification, is primarily motivated by the production of sex hormones testosterone and estrogen thanks to the brain's hypothalamus. Attraction, although closely related, is something different; it hinges on the brain's reward system and is the reason why ne...
Testosterone aids males in burning fat more quickly and effectively. This hormone does this mostly by reducing the synthesis of estrogen, which inhibits the body’s capacity to metabolize fat and build muscle. Side Effects of Testosterone Boosters ...
Androgens are a class of drugs used to treat symptoms of low testosterone in adult men who have hypogonadism (a condition in which the body does not produce enough natural testosterone) in males and metastatic breast cancer in females.
hormones are going to change. estrogen is going to shift. the cells are continuing to grow in abnormal ways. the ovaries become dangerous. it can't assess ovarian cancers that easily. prostate. the prostate is extremely important early on in giving help and fluid to sperm. as you get older...
Importantly, the sexually dimorphic brain, similar to most sex differences, does not fall into a hard binary readout—but rather is on a continuum or spectrum with each cell and each brain region comprised of varying degrees of 'male' and 'female' (Hines, 2005; Joel and McCarthy, 2016)....
Progesterone plays an important role in the male body as it acts as a precursor to testosterone, helps counteract the effect of estrogen, and helpsprepare spermfor fertilization. But too much progesterone can cause symptoms such as decreased libido, weight gain, erectile dysfunction, gynecomastia (...