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On this episode of The resetter podcast, I am bringing you Dr Kelly Casperson Now this is a really fun conversation. I can't wait to see how you all enjoy it and eat it up. I really wanted to bring a testosterone expert to all of you. We've talked about the pros and cons of estrogen. You've heard me talk about progesterone, but I haven't really done a deep, deep dive on testosterone. And Kelly has a new book coming out called the menopause moment that has a whole chapter on testosterone. I also follow her on socials, and she just went before the FDA to get the warning signs on, the warning updates that go on the packaging for testosterone off, because she believes so passionately that women deserve to have testosterone and to bring it in to their menopause repertoire of hormone replacement. And as you'll hear in this incredible conversation, you'll hear her clinical experience. She is a urologist. She's also an international speaker and thought leader. She's a podcaster, and she has a great podcast called you are not broken, and she has some very strong opinions on testosterone. So in this conversation, we go through, what does testosterone do, beyond the libido, and I think this was the most important thing I wanted to bring to you, because as you'll hear, it affects a lot in our life. And when testosterone goes down, our motivation can change our mood, can change our ability to build muscles can change. And so there's a lot more at play here than just libido. So we discussed that. Then I wanted to talk about the different ways to get testosterone into your body, because I've seen so much controversy of pellets, no pellets, creams, trophies. What do we do? And so Kelly does a really good job educating us on that. And then, of course, we need to talk about, how do you bring it to your doctor? Because I keep hearing from more and more women that are experiencing their doctors saying no to testosterone and not prescribing it for them. So if we talk about, how do you talk to your doctor about this? And then where we land is really beautiful. We landed on libido. So most people think of libido and testosterone first in this conversation, we put it last. But what what transpired in the back half of this conversation around what is sexual desire? What is libido? Will fascinate you. It is not a sex conversation, a desire conversation like you've ever heard before. And I just really appreciated the way in which she brought forward the conversation of libido, because it's intricate, and she did a good job of talking about it from many different angles. So Dr Kelly Casperson Her book the menopause moment, it's out for order right now, run to whatever your favorite store is and grab a copy. But most importantly, educate yourself on is testosterone right for you, and I think you'll see that Kelly and I both wanted to just make women aware. What you choose to do with the knowledge is always up to you. So take the whole conversation with love and dive into the world of testosterone, if it fits for you. As always, enjoy and I hope this helps. Welcome to the resetter podcast. This podcast is all about empowering you to believe in yourself again, if you have a passion for learning, if you're looking to be in control of your health and take your power back, this is the podcast for you.

So I want to start off with the testosterone mystery is what I call it, that I feel like we have a lack of knowledge in the culture on how testosterone plays out in the female body, what it does during menopause. So I want to go through like, is it supposed to decline? Is it not decline? And then how do we bring it back into our body through exogenous ways, like hormone replacement therapy? And because each one of those is a hurdle I see for women that they get stuck at some point of those three things,

let alone if I add a fourth thing, the regulatory burden, yeah, and the availability of options and the DEA hurdle after hurdle with testosterone,

it's, do they not want us to have testosterone? Is that the problem?