Medical schools, including several in Chicago, began adding alternative medicine five to seven years ago in response to public demand. A 1998 study in the AMA journal found that 42 percent of Americans have used alternative medicine. Researchers at Canada's Queen's University have found that a fetus can respond when music is played at 30 weeks, but no earlier. About 600,000 U.S. women undergo hysterectomies each year. Many operations include the removal of ovaries, which produce half of a woman's testosterone.
Many women report their sex lives suffer as a result.
Although men produce 20 times as much testosterone as women, the sex hormone is important to both genders. The study is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. In other words, avoid overly greasy foods, ice cold drinks, alcohol, raw and uncooked foods, hot, peppery foods, coffee, and too much fruit. Avoid daily juice drinks since these also overly stimulate the production of insulin. Stop drinking sodas.