madman
Super Moderator
* Dr. Khera explains why testosterone is one of the most biologically active hormones in the female body, with receptors in the brain, heart, bone, muscle, and genitalia, and why the research to prove its full benefits for women has simply never been funded.
* He walks through what low testosterone really looks like, how to get tested properly, why women with low libido are so often handed an SSRI that makes things worse, the truth about pellets, creams, and injections, which side effects are reversible and which are not, and the red flags to watch for when looking for a prescriber.
In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Mohit Khera, board-certified urologist and Professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he holds the F. Brantley Scott Chair in Urology, to tell women the truth about testosterone — the hormone women actually make more of than estrogen, yet still cannot access in a single FDA-approved formulation.
Dr. Khera explains why testosterone is one of the most biologically active hormones in the female body, with receptors in the brain, heart, bone, muscle, and genitalia, and why the research to prove its full benefits for women has simply never been funded. He walks through what low testosterone really looks like, how to get tested properly, why women with low libido are so often handed an SSRI that makes things worse, the truth about pellets, creams, and injections, which side effects are reversible and which are not, and the red flags to watch for when looking for a prescriber. He also shares why sexual dysfunction is a couple's disease, what he calls the "hormonally dangerous decade," and the one intervention he's found that makes women feel even better than hormones.
Timestamps
00:00:00 – Why testosterone in women is still misunderstood
00:04:17 – How Dr. Mohit Khera entered female sexual medicine
00:05:44 – The medical training gap around sexual dysfunction
00:08:39 – What female sexual dysfunction actually means
00:10:03 – What testosterone does in the female body
00:13:29 – Why women’s testosterone research is underfunded
00:17:05 – What low testosterone can look like
00:20:24 – How to test testosterone accurately
00:22:36 – Why SHBG matters
00:30:32 – What testosterone levels actually mean
00:33:25 – Why there is no FDA-approved testosterone for women
00:37:11 – Creams, injections and pellets explained
00:42:00 – Why absorption changes the dose
00:43:42 – How to evaluate a compounding pharmacy
00:46:21 – The risks of supraphysiologic dosing
00:46:58 – Testosterone side effects and reversibility
00:48:28 – Testosterone, bone density and frailty
* He walks through what low testosterone really looks like, how to get tested properly, why women with low libido are so often handed an SSRI that makes things worse, the truth about pellets, creams, and injections, which side effects are reversible and which are not, and the red flags to watch for when looking for a prescriber.
In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Mohit Khera, board-certified urologist and Professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he holds the F. Brantley Scott Chair in Urology, to tell women the truth about testosterone — the hormone women actually make more of than estrogen, yet still cannot access in a single FDA-approved formulation.
Dr. Khera explains why testosterone is one of the most biologically active hormones in the female body, with receptors in the brain, heart, bone, muscle, and genitalia, and why the research to prove its full benefits for women has simply never been funded. He walks through what low testosterone really looks like, how to get tested properly, why women with low libido are so often handed an SSRI that makes things worse, the truth about pellets, creams, and injections, which side effects are reversible and which are not, and the red flags to watch for when looking for a prescriber. He also shares why sexual dysfunction is a couple's disease, what he calls the "hormonally dangerous decade," and the one intervention he's found that makes women feel even better than hormones.
Timestamps
00:00:00 – Why testosterone in women is still misunderstood
00:04:17 – How Dr. Mohit Khera entered female sexual medicine
00:05:44 – The medical training gap around sexual dysfunction
00:08:39 – What female sexual dysfunction actually means
00:10:03 – What testosterone does in the female body
00:13:29 – Why women’s testosterone research is underfunded
00:17:05 – What low testosterone can look like
00:20:24 – How to test testosterone accurately
00:22:36 – Why SHBG matters
00:30:32 – What testosterone levels actually mean
00:33:25 – Why there is no FDA-approved testosterone for women
00:37:11 – Creams, injections and pellets explained
00:42:00 – Why absorption changes the dose
00:43:42 – How to evaluate a compounding pharmacy
00:46:21 – The risks of supraphysiologic dosing
00:46:58 – Testosterone side effects and reversibility
00:48:28 – Testosterone, bone density and frailty
