HER’S

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For many women, sexual desire goes up and down over the years, often tied to changes in RELATIONSHIP STRESS, and physical changes like pregnancy and menopause. But roughly 10% of women deal with a low sex drive that causes them distress. It’s a condition known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

There are a few over-the-counter supplements that aim to treat the problem, which have limited, mostly unproven, effects. But in recent years, the FDA has approved two prescription drugs to treat HSDD. These treatments are often referred to as “female her’s” — a nod to one of the medicines that men can take for sexual problems. But they’re not much like hims’s at all. In fact, they work very differently inside the body.

In women, low libido is a more complex problem.

“I often say you can picture men’s sexual desire as a light switch, and women’s sexual desire as the cockpit of a 747,” she says. “There are more factors at play in female sexual desire.

boost the activity of chemical messengers in your brain, called neurotransmitters, that are key to helping you feel aroused. You take hers” every day, whether you plan to have sex or not