wanting it, that’s a big difference in the field of women’s health,” said Thacker, director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Specialized Women’s Health.
The analysis also showed that testosterone significantly increased sexual desire, pleasure, arousal, orgasm, responsiveness to sexual stimuli, and self-image.
According to Davis, “Testosterone improves multiple dimensions of sexual well-being in postmenopausal women who have low sexual well-being and are distressed by this, after exclusion of other major factors, such as major depression, primary relationship issues and so forth.”
Some doctors already have been treating select women with testosterone off-label, said Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler, a urology specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Kavaler hopes this new study will “legitimize” both testosterone therapy and the
