This highlights the often-overlooked topic of women’s health, emphasizing the hormonal changes women experience as they age and the critical role testosterone therapy can play in improving overall well-being. By addressing symptoms like low energy, libido issues, and hot flashes, testosterone therapy offers a holistic approach to restoring balance, naturally converting to estrogen and alleviating common concerns.

It also dispels common misconceptions about testosterone being exclusively a “male hormone.” With proper monitoring and tailored dosing, the therapy proves both safe and transformative, improving physical vitality and enhancing relationships. This sheds light on innovative treatments that empower women to feel their best at every stage of life.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:03 – Introduction to Women’s Health and Research Disparities

00:35 – Hormonal Changes and Testosterone Therapy

02:03 – Benefits of Testosterone for Women

03:28 – Addressing Misconceptions About Testosterone in Women

03:59 – Safe Practices in Testosterone Therapy

05:31 – Peptides and Hair Loss Solutions

06:25 – Testosterone and Relationship Dynamics

07:34 – Alternative Therapies for Anti-Aging and Regeneration

09:16 – Dr. Chalmers’ Zest for Knowledge

Host – Woman [00:00:03] To running out of time. You’re not like super on the edge, but I wanted to make sure to have an opportunity to talk about women’s health because I feel like women’s health gets the short end of the stick a lot of times. I mean, I really wasn’t that that long ago that I heard the stats on research done for men’s health compared to women’s. And it’s. It’s a. Shock. It’s not just shocking. It’s kind of it’s appalling, honestly, how little research there is for women’s health. So I’m just curious, like, what’s your approach for addressing the unique issues of women, you know, coming to you with health issues?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:35] So first of all, and this is gets into the way that things are done in labs and things like that. So the problem we get into, especially for a little bit older women 35 and over above, is the hormonal changes that they’re trying to hold on. Sorry to be like, this is your healthy. That’s not right because if you look at a woman who’s 18 to 35, those are her prime years for producing children. So her estrogen progesterone levels have to be higher to run the baby making function of all the organs. Once you’re past that point, the amount of estrogen progesterone you requires radically less. So you have to make sure that you understand that because I see women come in all the time who are on estrogen and progesterone to get rid of their issues. And I’m like the problems. The research is all the cancer happens from giving estrogen progesterone. You can get hot flashes that switch and vaginal dryness to go away. If you give them testosterone. Testosterone naturally converts into through the five alpha reductase into estrogen. So when we have women come in who are low t low energy, low libido, low orgasm function, you know, mental stuff, we sit sitting and we’re like, okay, you’re low T They also have hot flashes. No such individual dryness will give them testosterone. And then 95% of the time we get their levels figured out with just with testosterone, all the hot flashes and such and that was us are gone because the testosterone converts naturally into estrogen. And so that’s one of the big things I see people messing with women’s health. And the other thing is a lot of people don’t believe that women need testosterone because they feel it’s a men’s hormone. And that’s not accurate at all.

Host – Woman [00:02:03] Right.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:03] You want to fix a marriage, you take a woman who is stressed out, no energy, you know, and she’s just tired all the time and she’s not going to have sex.

Host – Woman [00:02:13] You give her.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:14] You’re the testosterone. Here’s some of the terrible things when she gets more energy because muscle tissues regenerate. So like that, she starts losing a little bit of fat a lot easier. So she feels sexier. But the big thing is, is that we get the energy back, we get the libido back, and testosterone increases blood flow to the uterus, to the to the genitals. And so you get more nerve function, more blood flow to the clitoris. So it swells back up and you get really, really good orgasms. And so now all of a sudden she wants to have sex. And now since the guy is having the sex that he wants, he feels fulfilled, he feels loved and respected. And so they can start, you know, bringing that thing back together. Because as soon as I work with couples, as soon as I make How’s the sex? And like, it’s so much better. I had the guy like, have you read the five Love languages? But I really had that too. And he’s like, What’s this? I’m like, You’re going to go home. You’re both you read that, figure out what she is. Because if all you got to do is her, her hair is pretty. And that means the same thing to her. Sex means to you. Your relationships can be a whole different.

Host – Woman [00:03:10] This is the holistic health doctor and marriage coach.

Host – Man [00:03:15] Text messages. Yeah.

Host – Woman [00:03:16] Yeah. You just need, like, a strip mall where, like, you just jump from office to office for all the little things here. Like.

Speaker 4 [00:03:21] Like a Bugs Bunny kind of a thing where, like, all of a sudden you puts on another outfit.

Host – Man [00:03:25] Well, they say the top reasons for divorce or sex and money, right?

Host – Woman [00:03:28] Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. Yeah. No, it it it makes sense to me. And I think, you know, testosterone is just one of those things that you naturally equate with, with masculine, with with man. And so I think that it’s easy for like, to forget as a woman like, yeah, testosterone is also an important hormone function with me. I mean, do you have a lot of like response when from women patients when you’re like, Yeah, we need testosterone that they’re like, No, Like you start thinking like, I’m going to get hair on my face and on my chest, right? Like, do you have a of pushback?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:59] We have a lot of questions. And because the nice thing about it is that when I started doing this ten years ago, there were lots of questions and now people are more. I’ve heard of that. I want to try it. But what you mentioned, that’s one of the things I always start with women on is like, okay, here’s the thing. Like, we can do this and it’s super safe and the vast majority of people are going to have no issues. But the range that we see effective for women is 82 to 50. So what we always want to do is we want to start low. And I tell them we have the spreadsheet we give them. Like if you notice more hair, your brush, get a hold of us. Let’s make sure when we stop something before it gets big, we can use the J.K peptide, the copper peptides, we can decrease the dose, we can use red light therapy. There’s, you know, maybe you’ve got stress you’re aware of, we can start calling those things down. But a lot of times the vast majority of the time we haven’t seen in years of working with it, we haven’t seen any issues as long as we keep the range, like I said, between 80 and, you know, 250, the 250 is on the higher end for women who just don’t feel it. But that’s the other thing. If you talk to your patients, you go, how do you feel? And they’re like, okay, we can move you up. We can move you down to make sure that, you know, you’re. Really where everything’s supposed to be. But that’s that’s the big thing, is that, you know, as long as we get the women where they where they are comfortable and you make sure that they understand what’s going on, what to watch for, it’s super safe. The vast majority women we have, we’re working with, they tell all of their friends and all their friends come into it because.

Host – Woman [00:05:18] Yeah, right.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:18] Like, I want to feel younger because it.

Host – Woman [00:05:20] Feels good to feel better, right? And enjoy sex and like, yeah, be able to orgasm and have a great time with your partner. Those are all great things.

Host – Man [00:05:27] So now what was this peptide you mentioned though, that J.K peptide.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:31] So, so the GHB, copper peptide, what that actually does is so the reason we lose our hair, there’s other reasons. Stress is a big one, but basically it’s an oxygen issue. And so Dihydrotestosterone is one of the things that causes hair loss. Male pattern baldness. And so it does that by choking off the oxygen to the scalp. Well, these peptides, the copper peptides can help increase dilate blood vessels and increase blood flow to the scalp as the rash as well as the rest of the body. And so if we start noticing that, we’ll start using those peptides and the research on it is unbelievable. Like there’s like I keep trying to find like, how does this hurt you? Because I know everything good can be bad and I can’t. I’m down the way. It’s hurting people yet, but that one’s really good. Well mix that with like erythritol and things like that that also dilate blood vessels and help the blood vessel function. Narrow kinase is another big one. Quinine we can use.

Speaker 4 [00:06:25] To use tadalafil I’ve heard I’ve heard that well we feel is as been kind of in that realm as well because the vessels are later.

Host – Man [00:06:33] Affected by use that for that reason.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:34] Yeah yeah some of that stuff you can like some of the like the the anti DHT stuff we we do see some sexual satisfaction with that like finasteride and stuff like that. Yeah. We’ve got to be a little bit careful with that stuff. So we use that last but we haven’t had to use it very often. It’s good. So yeah, it’s one of those things like, so I’m doing some stuff and I keep telling people I’m like it. I have zero desire to ever have hair. Like if I could figure out how to have the rest of my hair fall out so I don’t have to shave my head anymore. I got it. But I lost mine when I was 26 before I started doing any of this. But so like I’m doing some of that stuff and like, if I if mine comes back at all, then we’ve figured out how to fix hair growth and we haven’t had any real issues with any of the women. Now, we used to tell you that had.

Host – Man [00:07:21] We used to joke that the guys that have no hair probably have a higher sex drive as well.

Host – Woman [00:07:25] But yeah, right, Yeah, I heard that before too. That like because that’s Ross right?

Host – Man [00:07:30] Yeah. And that’s. And DHT is really related to sex drive. Right. But anyway so.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:34] I know you off there. Yeah. The androgens are great. Yeah. The DHT is fantastic for for all of that stuff. So yeah, the sex drive function is pretty solid, but it’s a it is a big like when you start looking at the DHT issues, that’s where we start having issues with prostate issues and stuff like that as well. So we want to maintain and manage your DHT. Yeah, so that’s, that’s, you know, when we start talking about androgen levels. So like a lot of guys will come in and they’ll be like, I want to do more tests because I want to get bigger. I’m like. We have to worry about androgens. We want to Winstrol and Avar and that type of stuff. Like we can roll that in, like we can roll deck in for the guys, but especially for the women. You don’t want too many to the androgens. So antibody when are a little bit risky. So what we’ll do is we’ll be like what about the growth hormone peptides? Like have you done any of the small enough hormone tests for Moreland? Because if we want more size, we want more regeneration, more healing, We can bring in, we can keep our testicles lower, bring in the growth hormone stuff and get massive amounts of healing regeneration from that. We don’t have any antigen function. And so for a lot of women, we’ll bring that in because it’s very anti-aging as well. And so they get the muscle tone they want, they get the fat loss they want. They don’t have to worry about losing their hair.

Host – Woman [00:08:39] Yeah, I love it. I symphony’s you’re talking. I’m like you you you know so much about so much. I’m fascinated by all of these topics that you’re changing. And I just had this moment of being like, I wonder what he was like as a little kid. Like, were you just like that ever curious, kid? This is like constantly and every day and just like chattering. All were like, well, I was maybe a weird question, but like, because you have to have a certain zest for knowledge to gain all of this knowledge that you have. So like, is it did you like just discover one day that you were like, Man, this is it for me and I can’t wait to learn more? Was there you were you always this kid who was curious and wanted to learn to know more?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:16] I always liked I’ve always been irritated by puzzles like I like them. But when like, when I when I when I don’t understand something, I’m like. But I don’t I don’t get it. And it’s funny because, like, the calories thing, like, everything I’m like, I don’t understand. Like, you’re telling me this how the system works. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Yeah. So I’ll just start looking into it. I’m like, that’s because you were telling me wrong things.

Host – Woman [00:09:36] That’s.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:37] That’s. That’s one of us. And so it’s funny because, like, my 12 year old is me. And so I it’s, it’s funny. He’ll say stuff all the time and I’m like, I got to call my parents and apologize. This is 100% me. Yeah. And he’ll argue stuff. And I’m like, All right, look, I like. All right, look, you’re right. Right. You just. It doesn’t matter. Like he was saying, explain the mask thing to me. And I’m like, because he had to wear a mask. It’s going to be like, dude, you’re asking the wrong guy, too. Yeah. Yeah. Logic wrong that.

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