Hey, welcome back to part two with Dr. Kelly Casperson. This is Ella, and I split this one into two episodes because there's so much information here. But you will want to start with part one. And here is part two, Dr. Kelly Casperson on all things testosterone. Let's go.

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Okay, last category of question I have for you.

I really want to talk to you about testosterone

therapy. And we were talking about this when we were together. And we were talking about

pellets versus like the daily cream. Kelly, can you give us just a quick refresher on why

women should be evaluating the option of testosterone therapy for themselves, like under what circumstances?

Yeah, well, thanks for that because if women don't know their ovaries make testosterone,

if women don't know that they only have estrogen in their body because they have testosterone

that converts to estrogen, right? You have to back up and give them the education that they never had.

And don't get me wrong, I didn't learn this in medical school either. Like, we literally gendered the

hormones and we said estrogen's for females and testosterone's for males. And that's not true.

Men have more estrogen in their body than a postmenopausal woman does. Of course they do.

Right? Like, just say, I had this woman, she was,

she was suffering. Like she'd been to so many doctors. Nothing was working. When did this all start?

Oh, about 10 years ago. Okay, it was 10 years ago, was that when menopause hit? Yep. Okay.

So give her a low dose estrogen patch. See her back in a couple of months. Like, how are you doing?

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