|  What is Testosterone?
Testosterone, also known as androgen, plays an important physiological and psychological role in women. As well as men's bodies produce a small amount of estrogen, natural testosterone is produced in women through the ovaries and adrenal glands. Also in women it influences sexual feelings and behavior. Besides the sexual benefits, testosterone also acts on the brain, muscles, bones, liver and blood vessels.
Effects of Testosterone Levels:
Testosterone is responsible for the sexual health and well-being of women. If testosterone levels are balanced, it have positive effects on the musculature and the bones and improve the body energy.
Testosterone also causes sexual improvements, such as enhanced
arousal, orgasms, pleasure and responsiveness, which means a healthy sex drive. It boosts the libido, strengthens
self-confidence and an overall sexual health.
Factors that effect Testosterone Levels
As women grow older,
their bodies produce less androgen (testosterone). At age of 40, the female body produces about half the testosterone
it did in the twenties. The testosterone levels drop furthermore with the onset of menopause or if women have had
their ovaries removed.
Testosterone therapy is beneficial for women with an early ovarian
failure, symptomatic testosterone deficiency due to menopause following surgical removal of the ovaries, chemotherapy or
radiotherapy or premenopausal bone loss associated with low testosterone levels.
A factor that effect testosterone levels is testosterone therapy, which side effects are uncommon but not excluded when testosterone is used in inappropriate doses.
Such side effects include acne, excess body hair, scalp hair loss, fluid retention, deepening of the voice, enlargement of the clitoris and
adverse effects on blood cholesterol.
To find the right dosage, it is necessary to make a blood test. But
it is not that easy and there are some things to note. Most methods for measuring testosterone are fairly imprecise
and become even more inaccurate when blood levels of testosterone are low. Also blood should not be taken during the
menstrual phase, because testosterone levels are low at this time in most women and that may be misleading.
However side effects will occur in any woman if the dose of the
testosterone is in excess of her needs.
Balancing testosterone levels without side effects:
Pharmaceutical companies make you believe that for the treatment of low hormonal production, drugs are the only solution,
that isn’t the case. Before you make the choice of taking synthetic hormones and deal with the side effects, you might want to
consider less riskier approaches.
There is a type of alternative medicine that doesn't artificially put testosterone hormones in your body,
but stimulates your body itself to produce only the necessary hormones.
Click here to take a look at treatments
and learn about approaches to treat the factors that effect testosterone levels. |
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Natural Hormones:
Estrogen
· Progesterone
· Testosterone
· Bioidentical
Treatments
· HRT |
