Dr Susan Hardwick-Smith

Right, of course.

The idea that this very...

powerful hormone that we're now potentially lacking in perimenopause or menopause or even younger could only have one benefit, it makes no sense.

It doesn't target one thing.

And so currently in the United States, and I think in the UK as well, we're instructed if we read these consensus statements, we can only say that testosterone is beneficial for

HSTD or low sex drive and not all the other things, which obviously it's great for many things.

I absolutely love the paper that you published recently about cognition and testosterone, because I hear from my patients, I'll tell you the same happened to me.

Words like optimism and motivation and getting my pep back and, you know, just saying yes to social invitations instead of like, oh, I don't want to go.

I just feel kind of, and it's often misdiagnosed as depression, as you know, and it's, and it,

maybe sometimes depression, but why don't we try replacing the natural hormones first?

Because more often than not, that resolves the issue for the patient.

I can remember myself within two weeks of starting on hormones, going from just kind of feeling something is wrong with me.

I don't have any energy, motivation, no sex drive, but also no other types of drive, just motivation, optimism, good feeling about the future, all those feelings.

All of that got better.

And I actually started testosterone by itself because I'm a scientist.

I want to do a study.

I didn't want to start three things at once.

So I started it alone.

And this is a study with one person in it, but it's certainly been duplicated many times in your clinic, mine, and other anecdotal studies.

It works.