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‘I’m on fire’: The promise and peril of testosterone

I read everything Susan Dominus writes. Two years ago, she wrote an influential piece about how women had been misled about menopause; how the increased risk of breast cancer that comes with replacing declining hormones like estrogen and progesterone was often vastly overstated; and how many women who could have treated debilitating symptoms like hot flashes and insomnia suffered through them instead.

That has radically changed, thanks in part to articles like Susan’s and a confluence of social media influencers and doctors who have started talking openly about the benefits of menopausal hormone therapy.

Today, things have gone so far in the other direction that not only are more women leaning into conventional hormone therapy, they’re experimenting with testosterone. Lots of it, in some cases.

What got you interested in testosterone?

I started hearing all these stories from friends about women who were taking testosterone in really high doses, totally transforming their sex lives in their 50s. Women who hadn’t wanted sex with their husbands in years were suddenly having it six times a week. Others said they had orgasms for the first time in years.

The effects of testosterone in women have really only been well-studied at doses that replace the levels that a woman would have had in her late 30s. That’s very different from what I was hearing about, which was women taking doses much higher than they ever had naturally, at any stage.

Regulators in the U.S., which is where most of my reporting focused, have not approved the use of testosterone for women at all. Doctors have to prescribe it off-label. And yet these massive doses have become a cultural phenomenon. And a lot of women are having extreme reactions.

What kind of reactions beyond the increased sex drive?

I heard of one woman who had a terrible reaction after taking testosterone via a pellet — a little grain-of-rice-type object that is inserted beneath your skin and dissolves over three or four months. Once it’s in, you can’t take it out. It made her very aggressive and very angry. And everybody had to ride it out, and afterward she had to go back and apologize to her family.

Another woman told me her pellet gave her so much energy that she enrolled in a Ph.D. program even though she was raising four children and helping run three small businesses. But she also lost 40 percent of her hair.

You just don’t know how you’re going to respond. Are you going to be the person who feels positive and in love with her husband? Or is it going to make you the person who’s hyper-aroused but furious with her husband? Or isn’t even hyper-aroused — but is just angry all the time?

And are there any health risks?

The risks are not well understood at this point. Doctors have concerns about the possible increase in hormone-related cancers and cardiac issues that could be associated with high doses over time. But even the data on the risks of low-dose testosterone is limited. There is research on women who take it for two years that shows it’s quite safe. There’s been some research on women who’ve taken it for up to six years that’s also reassuring, but isn’t as good as the two-year research. There’s just not a lot of long-term data.

Have you read “All Fours” by Miranda July, by any chance?

Yes, I loved it!

So did I! In part because it got at something that your story also highlights — this idea that female sexuality doesn’t have to be linked to fertility.

Yes. Previously, as a menopausal woman, not only were you not considered a sexual being, but the notion that you might be a sexual being was the subject of jokes.

What I love about “All Fours” is that it really normalizes this idea that many women in their 50s and beyond not only want to have sex, but, you know, deserve help with that if it’s something they want. But equally, if someone in their 50s is done with sex, we want to normalize that too, right?

Our readers are from all over the world. Is there a country that is pioneering this culture change?

I think Britain has been leading the charge on making classic hormone therapy — estrogen and progesterone — accessible and affordable and safe, and countries like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are doing the same, specifically with testosterone. In America, which is a very puritanical and conservative country in many ways, things are moving relatively slowly — which might be why so many women have gone rogue.

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Shareholders approve Musk’s $1 trillion pay package

Tesla shareholders voted to grant Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, stock worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals. They include vastly expanding the company’s stock market valuation and selling one million humanoid robots.

The plan is structured in such a way that if Mr. Musk makes money, the company’s investors would, too. But Mr. Musk’s detractors, including officials who oversee public pension funds in New York and California, vigorously opposed the pay package, saying it would concentrate too much wealth and corporate power in the hands of one person.

Musk’s payday stood in stark contrast to the victory of Zohran Mamdani as a tax-the-rich mayoral candidate in New York City, a reminder of the frustrations many Americans have with an economic system that has left them struggling to afford food, housing and child care. “If voters in New York thought the billionaire class was making their lives unaffordable, just wait until Democrats are running against the trillionaire class,” said one Democratic official.

Why is Trump threatening military action in Nigeria?

President Trump and his allies say Christians are being killed for their religion in Nigeria. I talked with my colleague Ruth Maclean, who explained what’s going on.

There are different types of violence happening in different parts of the country, and religion is one of many factors, Ruth told me. It’s easy to cherry-pick incidents and make a whole country look as though it’s in chaos, but that’s not really the whole story. Click on the video above for more.

Rowing: Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne look back on how they made history crossing the Pacific Ocean.

Tennis: Will Novak Djokovic play in the ATP World Tour finals?

Mistress dispeller

— In China, a professional can be hired to break up a partner’s extramarital relationship. The profession is the subject of a haunting new documentary.

The Podpisniye Izdaniya bookstore in St. Petersburg.  Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

In St. Petersburg, home to Dostoyevsky and Nabokov, bookstores have long served as community centers. But the war in Ukraine is complicating life for Russian readers.

The Kremlin has repeatedly curtailed liberties in the arts and in speech, and this year, especially, officials have turned their sights to books. Volumes are being redacted and pulled from shelves. The rules are evolving, opaque and inconsistently enforced. And the space for exchanging ideas is shrinking. Read more.

Enea Arienti

What they’re crafting in … Milan

In the trendy Brera district, two women in their 70s sell flowers that are never out of season. For more than 30 years, Laura Goffi and Elisabetta Sonzini have been turning copper sheets and wires into lifelike roses, hellebores and peonies at their shop, Erbavoglio.

Each of their metal flowers takes anywhere from two hours to a few days to create. Take a look.

Christopher Testani for The New York Times

My family likes to bake, and our favorite recipe is lemon bars with olive oil and flaky salt, by Melissa Clark. The fruity bitterness of the olive oil is the perfect foil for the bright sourness of the lemon curd on a base of buttery shortbread. My daughters have made these bars dozens of times, and they love to deliver them to our friends and neighbors. (Melissa’s video is also very charming.) — Adam Pasick, deputy international editor