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Although I don’t specialise as an endocrinologist or specialist physician, I certainly would have had to close my practice if I didn’t know a thing or two about hormones! Hormones play such an important role in the sexual functioning of both men and women.

Testosterone plays an especially important role in our sexual desire, arousal, reaching orgasm, and even in the experience of sexual pain. Testosterone is decreased by the contraceptive pill and other medications and it also decreases with age in both men and in women.  We use testosterone off-label in women with sexual dysfunction and proven low testosterone.  In men we have registered products available in South Africa.  Testosterone is given according to international guidelines and under very close monitoring.

Still, sexual health is about much more than just testosterone.  If the adrenal glands, thyroid, brain hormones (neurotransmitters), insulin and immune system are not all healthy, people become chronically tired, overweight and hardly ever feel in the mood for sex.  We have to look at all of these hormones and their  functionalities holistically.  Managing healthy hormone levels is about a lifestyle rather than just popping pills, and the effects are often nothing short of life-changing!

Many people have been told by doctors that their hormones are “normal” because they are within the accepted reference ranges, but their balances might still be out, which often leaves them struggling with the scale, infertile, frigid and frustrated. Let’s have your hormone levels checked!