Testosterone for Women: The Myths Keeping You Tired, Anxious, and Off

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Feb 5, 2026 · 37m

You have been told it is not for you. That testosterone is a male hormone and has no place in a conversation about your health. But your body produces testosterone naturally — and when levels drop the effects reach far beyond libido into fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, low mood, and a general sense of being off that no standard lab panel ever flags as a hormone problem. Carolyn Zaumeyer has spent her career specifically in that gap — the women whose testosterone levels are technically normal but nowhere near optimal, whose symptoms are real but whose doctors never thought to look there. What she…