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whygetfat on Nostr: Thomas Seager, PhD: "The ovaries are responsible for maybe 25% of a woman's ...

Thomas Seager, PhD: "The ovaries are responsible for maybe 25% of a woman's testosterone production. The rest comes from skin, fat and adrenal glands.
"So Pamela was on hormone replacement therapy. In the United States there are no FDA-approved protocols for treating women for low T. So any clinician who wants to prescribe has to adapt a male protocol and figure it out. She got her total T up to maybe 16 ng/dL, if I'm remembering this right. I'm probably not getting the number right. But for a woman, they're like okay, you're doing fine.
"She started doing the ice baths. She did some exercise, but it turns out women don't have to. She got well up over a 100. It was almost a 10x increase in her testosterone.
"Her clinician was shocked, said, 'We must discontinue the TRT immediately. You're doing great. I don't know what you're doing, I'm not sure I even want to know what you're doing. But I am going to deprescribe you for TRT.'
"At a level that is around 150, 160 in a woman, a lot of women get self-conscious. I ask Pamela, 'Do you have any regrets?' 'No.' I said, 'But Pamela, aren't you growing a beard?' She laughs and she's like, 'No!'
"Testosterone is the dominant sex hormone in women, and a lot of women aren't told this. We worry about their female hormones, estrogen or progesterone, whatever you want to call it. They don't think that they need testosterone. And yet a healthy woman will have three to four times more testosterone coursing through her bloodstream than she will estrogen. Pamela got up to 160. But that's nowhere near male levels of healthy testosterone.
"So there are these misconceptions that if a woman were to elevate her testosterone to levels that are healthy she might somehow be masculinized. But we are not talking the East German swim team from the '70s or something. We're talking about what your body can make for itself, the mitochondria in your body to make its own testosterone."
Thomas Seager, PhD with Dr Max Gulhane @ 08:42–10:49 https://youtu.be/5D6vVDvvRFA&t=522
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