Dr. Mary Claire Haver

If you're going to do the pump, so for the men, there are pumps.

They use one to two pumps a day.

Women can use those pumps, but then you're going to want to be doing like one to two pumps a week.

And so what you're going to end up getting with that is these peaks in levels and then a valley, right?

If you use it on Monday, you're going to feel probably absolutely amazing because you have a very super physiologic level and then it's going to crash before you get the next one.

And so it can be hard to dose.

And we should talk about what super physiologic levels mean, because this is something that I think we're seeing all the time.

So I do want to just put a statement about the packets specifically.

So packets are oftentimes if you order testosterone as a 1% gel, testim, they'll give you packets.

You do not want to use packets for women.

Ooh.

And I've seen this actually in some documentaries about testosterone use where we show the packet.

Packets have alcohol in them.

It will dissolve.

So the minute you open it, you take one dose out, it's done for.

So you want to be very specific.

You want the tubes.

I did not know this.

You want the tubes.

You do not want the packets.