Everyone is freaking out about testosterone

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Testosterone takes up a lot of room in that vacuum of ‘everything we don’t know that we don’t know about menopause’.

Yet it’s one of the things that people are most divided about, and that is scary. Don’t even mention testosterone pellets; depending on who you speak to, they are either the work of God or the devil himself.

One thing we can all agree on (but which it seems very few people actually know): is that when our hormones are measured in the same units – why they would not be, we can only guess – testosterone is by far the most abundant.

Testosterone is not a male hormone at all. It is a human one.

Yet just as some men seem to be suffering from a premature loss of it – witness the ‘Low T’ phenomenon – wome…