Andrew Huberman· PhD
When normalized to the same units, adult women (typically) have more testosterone than they do estrogen.
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When normalized to the same units, adult women (typically) have more testosterone than they do estrogen.
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but in absolute amounts, she has more testosterone than estrogen.
women make more testosterone than estrogen
when you actually convert the units to the same numbers so when you go from nanograms per deciliter and pika grams per milliliter which they're often reported in different units and you do an apples-to-apples view when you look at a woman's highest estrogen level in her life which i mean outside of pregnancy is during her ovulate or e-cycle so - when she's ovulating when she has that burst of estrogen if you take that estrogen level and compare it to hurt estas level on average which is testosterone varies a little bit by cycle but not enormous ly the testosterone is about ten times higher than the estrogen hmm now the number never looks that way because testosterone is reported typically in nanograms per deciliter whereas the estrogen is reported usually in pika grams per milliliter but if you you know do like the high school you know calculation of what your chemistry teacher would have you do and put them both in the same units you'll realize that testosterone is much higher so even though a woman's testosterone level is much less than a man's testosterone level a free testosterone for a woman a woman might be one nanogram per deciliter whereas in a man the fiftieth percentile would be about fourteen nanograms per deciliter so called fourteen fifteen times higher it is still a very dominant hormone even relative to estrogen
even pre-menopause women have higher testosterone than estrogen if you actually convert the units to the same units
If you normalize those to the same level, women are shocked to learn that they have 10 times the amount of testosterone in their body that they do estradile at peak estradi.