Carole Hooven, Ph.D.

Or obesity, do you have to?

Yeah, I'm glad you brought up the androgen receptors because I think people don't appreciate the fact that one person's 400 is not another person's 400.

I know you talk about this a lot about carrier proteins, but also there's the genetic differences in the receptor itself, which is the CAG repeat, which predict the efficiency of its ability to transcribe the androgen-responsive proteins.

And just the overall concentration, where are your androgen receptors and how highly concentrated are there?

Of course, it's going to be different in different parts of your brain and body.

So all of that really makes much more complex the interpretation of a single measurement.

So that being said, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm coming from a place of thinking about how this all works naturally to promote, especially behaviors that are adaptive.

I'm on progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen.

I'm 59, and I had my ovaries out a couple years ago.

And I have to say, I just want to say when that happened, I was 57.

So I was already in menopause pretty much, and everything changed after that.

It made a huge difference.

My hair started falling out.

My sex drive plummeted.

No.

I just want to throw that out there because I'm supposed to be an expert in hormones.

And I had my ovaries out at 57 and it had a huge impact.

Yeah.