WHAT do women need for a good sex life? According to one of the most rigorous studies to date, it could be a hormone called DHEAS.
“Everyone has been working on a hunch that low blood testosterone is related to low sexual function, but it’s not, it’s low DHEAS,” says Susan Davis of the Jean Hailes Foundation in Melbourne, Australia, who presented her findings at the Endocrine Society meeting in New Orleans last week.
Davis and her team monitored hormone levels in the blood of more than 1400 women, aged between 18 and 75, who were randomly recruited using the…
