How do you support your libido after breast cancer and menopause?
Let’s talk about it.
For women, estrogen is really our libido hormone.
Yet after breast cancer, you may not be able to use HRT safely. So, whether you’ve developed chemotherapy-induced menopause or you’re going through menopause, it’s difficult to maintain your libido.
Libido is controlled by your hypothalamus.
Thinking about sex, as well as being sexually responsive and orgasmic is controlled by a couple of hypothalamic hormones – prolactin and oxytocin.
Therefore, optimizing your hypothalamus health can actually help to balance both hormones and improve your libido. Oxytocin helps you bond to your lover and is released during orgasm.
- Hugging helps increase oxytocin production.
- Prolactin can inhibit your responsiveness to hormones if it’s produced at high levels during the day.
- Sleeping in the dark at night and getting up with the sun helps regulate prolactin.
Optimizing your hypothalamus function will help balance oxytocin and prolactin to help increase your libido.
My patients who’ve had breast cancer and are going through menopause use Genesis Gold® regularly to optimize their hypothalamus function.
As a result, they report higher sex drives and more sexual responsiveness. Including more vaginal lubrication than those who do not support their hypothalamus.
If you have any questions about managing libido post breast cancer and menopause, please join us in our Hormone Reboot Training.
Resources:
Management of Sexual Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review
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