Testosterone
She's 57, on testosterone, and building companies with AI.
What happens when a woman who founded adoption.com in 1995 gets her testosterone back at 57? The ambition doesn't come back. It arrives.
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The flatness your antidepressant can't reach.
Millions of women are on SSRIs for depression that was actually testosterone deficiency. Here's what the research says — and what your doctor may not know.
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My mother has Alzheimer's. Her doctors could have protected her brain. They didn't.
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Annette Thompson
Founder of adoption.com (1995). Founded orphanages and international adoption programs in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Haiti. Adopted 7 kids. And the woman who got her brain back at 57 — after a doctor finally checked her testosterone.
She writes SmartStrongAlive because her mother has Alzheimer’s, because she watched 23 years of women be undertreated by doctors afraid of a badly designed study, and because she couldn’t find the newsletter she needed when her own hormones crashed.
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