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For years, many women have learned to live with symptoms they assume are simply part of being female

Produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands, testosterone contributes to sexual motivation, arousal and a host of other bodily functions still under investigation

Women have a remarkable ability to keep track of everything: mother’s birthday, best friend’s coffee order, child’s school project, password to the Wi-Fi that everyone else tends to forget. Yet, many of us have absolutely no idea what our blood sugar has been doing for the last five years. Unfortunately, diabetes rarely arrives with fireworks.…

In the years that followed, Karen witnessed the effects of surgically induced menopause, from hot flushes to mood swings