Hormones and Your Sexual Desire

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by olga

Have you observed that whenever you feel angry, in tears, headachy, a bit below par, or lacking in sex drive, someone will tell you that: ‘it must be your hormones’?

At the present time, women can expect to live to an average age of 85. Today’s woman has better health and more alternatives – and with this improved state of things she wants a better-quality life, principally in the bedroom.

In the present day, loss of desire is one of the most widespread female sexual problems.

It’s become very fashionable to guilt our hormones for loss of libido. Nevertheless is there any evidence that hormones are the actual problems?

The truth is that even though lots of investigate has been done no one has managed to come up with anything very definite on the relationship between female hormones and desire. There are some reasons for this:

-In anticipation of freshly researchers would have considered it too embarrassing or controversial.
-This isn’t a life-threatening area of medicine.

-In anticipation of recently, no drug company realized that there was money to be made from such study.

-It’s very difficult to calculate desire logically.

It’s interesting that enormous numbers of adult females haven’t a clue about which hormones they have, and what they in fact do at the same time as the majority of women consider that loss of libido is something to do with their hormones. Maybe this is expected since it’s very difficult. Honestly, the majority of doctors truly understand it, so what chances have the rest of us got! But it seems to boil down to the following:

-Our ovaries produce large amounts of the female sex hormones - oestrogen and progesterone.

-They as well make small amounts of the male hormones - testosterone and androstenedione.

Both men and women as well have two vital hormones, both secreted by the pituitary gland, called FSH and LH.

FSH controls the formation of eggs by the ovary (it stands for follicle stimulating hormone).

LH controls the manufacture of sex hormones by the ovaries (it stands for luteinising hormone). Swiss gynecologists have lately told us that LH is strongly linked to desire.

Day one of our cycle is the first day of a period. Two main things happen in a monthly cycle:

-the level of oestrogen increases gradually for the duration of the first half of the month, often dips sharply at ovulation - which happens around about day 14 - and gradually falls off just before the period.

-the level of progesterone increases sharply after ovulation, and then falls off just earlier than the period.