{"id":7239,"date":"2023-09-07T18:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:05:17","slug":"5-things-you-should-know-about-testosterone-in-women-from-an-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=7239","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Should Know About Testosterone In Women, From An MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_700,h_400,g_auto,q_85,fl_lossy,f_jpg\/org\/40os6rm7zjsw0tjgn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you are concerned about testosterone balance, you\u2019ll want to start by making sure any medication you take isn\u2019t impacting your testosterone levels. Or, if it is, make sure you know that your hormone levels may not be able to be accurately measured because of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One common medication that can interfere with testosterone measurement (and hormone measurement in general) is oral birth control pills, so make sure you take that into account when looking at results from testosterone tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suppression of testosterone is often a downstream effect of birth control\u2019s inhibition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) from the hypothalamus and luteinizing hormone (LH) from the pituitary gland, which are hormones crucial for the natural production of testosterone,\u201d Vinjamoori explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This mechanism may be beneficial at times, like when treating severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/beauty-breakdown-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hormonal-acne\">hormonal acne<\/a>, but may not be fit for everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are concerned about testosterone balance, you\u2019ll want to start by making sure any medication you take isn\u2019t impacting your testosterone levels. Or, if it is, make sure you know that your hormone levels may not be able to be accurately measured because of it.\u00a0 One common medication that can interfere with testosterone measurement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[246,54],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-libido","tag-strength-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}