{"id":874,"date":"2021-09-28T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/?post_type=menopauselibrary&#038;p=874"},"modified":"2023-11-08T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:48:15","slug":"116-testosterone-the-forgotten-hormone-with-professor-isaac-manyonda","status":"publish","type":"menopauselibrary","link":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/menopause-library\/116-testosterone-the-forgotten-hormone-with-professor-isaac-manyonda\/","title":{"rendered":"Testosterone: the forgotten hormone with Professor Isaac Manyonda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"116 - Testosterone: the forgotten hormone with Professor Isaac Manyonda\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=bgz3i-10dae00-pb&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=7&amp;multiple_size=315&amp;square_size=300&amp;order=episodic&amp;filter=all&amp;limit=10&amp;season=all&amp;tag=all\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Isaac Manyonda, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George&#8217;s Hospital in London, makes a welcome return to the podcast to discuss the important hormone, testosterone, with Dr Louise Newson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts discuss why awareness of testosterone in women is usually overshadowed by estrogen and they describe what type of symptoms can be greatly improved by replacing testosterone, as well as the different preparations available, licensing issues and challenges of accessing the medication on the NHS. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaac\u2019s top 3 tips if you\u2019re considering testosterone:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understand that testosterone isn\u2019t just a male hormone, it is a key female hormone, and tell your doctor this if they are unaware!&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be clear (with your doctor) about what symptoms testosterone can help specifically that estrogen alone may not fully alleviate, such as brain fog, sleep disturbances, lack of energy, and low libido.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If your usual doctor will not prescribe testosterone for you, look into what other NHS clinics in your region will, it can take a bit of finding out how to receive it. It should be something you can access via the NHS, but change is slow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Isaac Manyonda, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George&#8217;s Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6778,"template":"","subject":[40],"content-type":[17],"library-format":[14],"library-author":[],"class_list":["post-874","menopauselibrary","type-menopauselibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-testosterone","content-type-podcast","library-format-listen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/menopauselibrary"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"library-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-format?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"library-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-author?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}