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The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

44 - Testosterone and why the UK is falling behind

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7933 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by urologist and sexual medicine specialist Prof Mohit Khera to talk about testosterone in women and why it remains one of the most misunderstood and underused hormones in medicine.

They explore how sexual dysfunction is rarely an individual problem, why treating only one partner can create new difficulties, and why testosterone should be seen as part of a three-hormone foundation alongside estradiol and progesterone.

Crucially, this conversation goes far beyond libido. This is a powerful discussion about a hormone women make naturally, the wide-ranging health benefits it offers, and why being scared to replace it is often doing more harm than good.

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0:00.0

So this is one of my most favourite podcasts. We're talking about testosterone, such an important hormone.

0:06.7

And I'm talking with one of the probably world's leading experts of testosterone in men and women,

0:12.7

Professor Mo Keira, who's come over from the US to be here with me in the studio in real life.

0:18.2

We talk about how low testosterone is a marker of poor health in men and

0:23.0

women and the role testosterone has in our bodies. So listen carefully and enjoy it. So Mo, you're in real

0:32.9

life. Love it. So you are a urologist and you've been on my podcast before.

0:39.1

Some people will have listened to it.

0:40.7

Some people won't because I've got lots of new followers which is great.

0:44.7

My husband's a urologist.

0:46.1

He's sat in this seat with his ridiculous long hair talking about urology.

0:51.9

But you're similar but different to him.

0:55.5

So just explain a bit about what you do if that's okay your husband is a good friend of mine he's paul anderson and we've

0:59.4

traveled throughout the world giving lectures but my specialty is really sexual dysfunction so it

1:04.6

started in 2007 i finished my fellowship and i was really good at getting men great erections and great libido.

1:13.7

And the problem was these men would go home and these wives would get very upset.

1:18.1

They said, look, everything was great until he met you.

1:20.3

But now he wants to have sex every day and I don't want to have sex with him.

1:23.4

Right?

1:23.6

It's a problem.

1:24.7

And so I quickly realized it's true.

1:26.6

So I went out and did a fellowship

1:28.0

and started learning more about female sexual dysfunction. So I started treating women in 2008

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