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High testosterone levels in females: Causes, symptoms, and treatment

High testosterone levels in females: Causes, symptoms, and treatment

Testosterone is known as an androgen, or male sex hormone. However, ovaries and adrenal glands in female bodies also produce small amounts of testosterone. This hormone, along with estrogen, is important in growing, maintaining, and repairing female reproductive tissue and bone mass, as well as regulating libido and mood. But what could happen when there’s […]

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Beyond Pregnancy Prevention: Other Benefits of Pills

non-contraceptive benefits of pills

Oral contraceptive pills or “pills” contain the hormones estrogen and progestin that mimic the hormones women naturally produce. These hormones do a couple of things to ensure that pregnancy is not going to happen: they stop the ovaries from producing eggs for ovulation so that there’s no egg for the sperm to fertilize; they make […]

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