Dr Natalie Crawford

I laid on that DEXA scan as nervous as I've ever been in my life, like getting my board scores nervous.

Like, what have I done?

Right.

And it wasn't bad, okay?

But I'm like—but I like to be perfect.

So I'm like, what can I do to—you know, I'm doing the—I'm eating the protein.

I'm lifting the weights.

I'm starting to do all these things.

And we know that women who have naturally higher testosterone levels from genetics or whatever have less frailty as they age because that's my focus.

If I run the cancer gauntlet, which probably 80% of my aunts and uncles have died of cancer—

And so if I run that gauntlet and I'm doing everything lifestyle and preventative screening to do that, and then the women end up with dementia and frailty like my mother and grandmother.

So I'm like, okay, I want to have as much bone and muscle strength as I can.

So I'm going to add some testosterone and see what happens.

I at the time would not have said I had any sexual dysfunction.

I did not qualify medically for HSDD.

I go on testosterone, and there's definitely an uptick in the area, and everyone is happier.

Like, my interest is improved.

My initiation has improved.

And that had kind of waned time and stress and kids and whatever.

The other thing, we were empty nesting at the same time, so that probably no more kids busting in our door at 2 in the morning letting us know they're home from, you know, whatever experience.