- I love the topic of testosterone.

I'm a urologist, which gives me a very unique training coming into women's health and menopause.

And the reason for that is I give people 10 times the dose of testosterone every day.

They're called men, but I can't just come in and say, I wanna start you on testosterone because women don't know that they even have testosterone in their bodies.

So I really have to do the education before a woman will accept testosterone, which is fair.

The other unique thing about testosterone is it's really kind of been heralded as the hormone for libido.

I would argue estrogen is also a very good libido drug.

But testosterone's profoundly important for muscle, recovery after workouts, our bone health, our mental health, mood and depression.

So we're starting to research the effects, but all you have to do is start giving women physiologic, female dose testosterone and they come back and they say, I feel like myself again.

And you can't measure that, how do you measure I feel more like myself?

So how does a woman get testosterone in the United States of America today?

The most common option is to use a male product, just dose it for women's physiology.

And that on average is about one 10th the dose.

The tough part about that is it's very hard to dose a small packet of testosterone gel.

So for women you have to say take one packet, which is like a ketchup packet and you have to open it up and then you dose it over 10 days.

How do you dose this appropriately over 10 days?

The other problem, you take it to Rite Aid, Walgreens, whatever your conventional pharmacy is, your insurance won't cover it 'cause it's non FDA approved.

So men get it covered.

People who are transitioning to men get it covered.

Only the women don't get it covered by insurance.

- When you gave me the testosterone, you said it could take two to three months, but at about two months it was very, very noticeable.

- What'd you notice?

- Well I had a friend just tell me, you are so different.

And I said, well how am I different?

And she said, you're just not negative anymore.

I wasn't happy, and yeah, that's what my husband said too is you're just happier.

I said, yeah, I am.

- I think one of those most damaging things we did to women is that we made them afraid of something their body naturally makes.

I think it's devastating.