Testosterone: Benefits for Women in Menopause

In America and in Europe and Australia, we were using testosterone, which really is the mother hormone. It's the hormone that precedes estrogen to treat women in menopause. And they'd actually add it to estrogen. What they found was that women who were taking testosterone as a dominant hormone, and estrogen is more minor hormone, had a remarkable decreased incidence in breast cancer. About 70% decreased incidence of breast cancer and still maintaining the cardiovascular protection, improved quality of life, better energy, better sexuality, you know, less mental fogginess. And this has led to a change in the way we're practicing medics in the United States. And it took a little while. You know, again, the Studies are about 17, 18 years old, but it's pretty overwhelming. 70% reduction of breast cancer, improvement of all symptoms associated with menopause, reduced heart disease rate. We learned this over the last 15 years. We should have been using testosterone in the first place. And the medical community has been a little slow to adopt this more modern understanding of how women age and how our hormones affect our body.