there's a kind of misconception that testosterone is just about sex and getting muscles at the gym

and that's what most people tend to think of testosterone, at least most of men tend to see it

testosterone as, and yet it does so much more under the surface. So just liking women, testosterone

in men, it gives us our drive and our want to do things in the day. It's that thing that wakes you

up in the morning and goes, right, here's my get up and go, let's do things.

Well that's the voice of Dr. Jeff Foster, a men's health specialist and the medical director

and founder of H3 Health. He is passionate not only about men's health but about men and women

understanding and supporting each other's experiences of aging. I'm Lizelle and this is the Lizelle

well being show the podcast helping us all to have a better second half and as ever I'm on a

to find ways for us all to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being

today. Now before we go any further, I want you to go and find the most important man in your life.

Now that might be your partner, maybe a son, your father, trusted best friend because I'd love

for you to listen to this podcast together and I don't mind if you need to pause and come back

later on because in celebration of Father's Day I really want to talk about both the male

experience of hormone deficiencies as they age as well as how all of us understanding each other's

bodies could lead to higher quality of life for everyone involved. I have to say over the years

I've been so wrapped up in my own perimenopause, menopause I haven't actually given a great deal

of thought to the guys around me. So I am absolutely delighted to welcome Jeff back onto the show to

talk about how declining hormones can trigger hot flushes, irritability, low sex drive, brain fog.

Of course all of that in women but also talk about how our experiences could just save our

relationships.

Well Jeff, we recently had a fascinating episode about the development of the world's first

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