Testosterone Therapy and Menopause

All women consider menopause to be the critical moment of their life. Although we should be aware, that there are methods to help women to make that period of their life as comfortable as possible and to reduce immensely all the side effects of menopause. One of the most desirable options is testosterone therapy allowing you to improve your mood, to reduce night sweats and hot flashes.

Thus when you need to find the way to regulate you health condition during menopause you are recommended to consult your doctor about the possibility for you to take testosterone therapy. It is very important to let your doctor examine you and discuss with him all the peculiarities of the testosterone therapy. Firstly you should know that it may require some time for results of the therapy to become visible ones. Your hormones will need time to get back on track during menopause, and learning to pace yourself when you're undergoing therapy will help.

Besides, you should remember that the amount of HCL, or healthy cholesterol, will naturally decrease in your body during testosterone therapy. Making adjustments in your diet to consume more healthy fats (such as those from nuts or lean meats) will help your body to maintain a health cholesterol balance, and you will be full of energy during testosterone therapy. Testosterone therapy will influence positively your mood and mental state as the risk of depression is very high at the stage of menopause. Your bones and muscles also become significantly weaker during menopause due to the loss of testosterone-75 percent of women with osteoporosis are post-menopausal-so testosterone therapy will help you to maintain your physical strength and this would give you much more possibilities for having active life with exercises and sport activity.