If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. Androgens are hormones produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands that act on the musculoskeletal, nervous, hepatic and vascular tissues.
Women actually make more androgens than estrogens daily and convert the androgens to estrogens.
In adult women, androgens have long been known to play a key role in sexuality and to prevent bone loss and increase bone density. Like estrogen, androgen production drops significantly after menopause. Yet the impact of postmenopausal androgen decline has been far less studied than that of estrogen. Hormone therapy should be tailored to each individual according to symptoms, and combination estrogen-androgen therapy can be a significantly better option for some women than estrogen alone. Loss of Libido a Common, Untreated, Symptom Many postmenopausal women experience a sharp drop in sex drive and the enjoyment and frequency of orgasm.