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this study revealed increased breast cancer risk in women on "estrogen" and "testosterone" therapy.  Now, several problems here: first, are these synthetic hormone or bioidentical.  Second, the dosages appear, in what is written, to be supra physiologic.  Third, giving supra physiologic estradiol and testosterone will obviously create imbalances and growth potential.  Fourth, how were the women evaluated prior to starting hormone therapy and then were they remonitered (unlikely), fifth, were hormone metabolites evaluated (too, also unlikely).  This study has serious flaws and very little can be extrapolated other than: don't take supra physiologic hormone levels without appropriate evaluation.  Enough said

3 year study finds improvement in classic menopausal symptoms for women in perimenopause and menopause with improvement in other parameters: fasting glucose, cholesterol, MMP-9, CRP, fibrinogen and other clotting factors.  This study used bioidentical Bi-est, progesterone, and in some DHEA and Testosterone.

Salivary testosterone: a reliable approach to the diagnosis of male hypogonadism.

Validation of salivary testosterone as a screening test for male hypogonadism.

saliva testing used in evaluation of testosterone and DHT

saliva testing validated for male hormones

Menstrual variation in salivary testosterone among regularly cycling women.

saliva testing and male hormones