Episode 19: Low Libido Is a Clinical Indicator: When Estrogen Deficiency Turns Intimacy Into Aversion

Libido Loss Is a Clinical Indicator: How Estrogen Deficiency Turns Intimacy Into Aversion

Most “low libido” conversations start with sex tips—lingerie, lubricants, date nights. Marie Hoäg argues that’s backwards.

Libido loss is often a clinical indicator of estrogen deficiency. When estrogen is low enough to destabilize brain chemistry and nervous system regulation, intimacy can stop feeling connecting and start feeling invasive—sometimes flipping into outright aversion.

In this episode, Marie and Maggie break down:

• What women actually say in the clinic when libido disappears and “partner repulsion” shows up

• Why estrogen deficiency disrupts dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine—and changes reward, mood buffering, and threat sensitivity

• Why many women misinterpret aversion as “relationship truth” instead of a reversible deficiency state

• The family ripple effect: how the emotional climate of the home changes when she’s depleted

• How conventional medicine typically handles this 

• What it often means when a woman says: “I’m on HRT and it’s not working”

• What improves first when estrogen is truly restored—and why libido often returns after stability returns

This Episode Is For:

• Women who used to have desire and now feel numb, shut down, or repulsed by touch

• Women who “want to want to”… and women who are sure they “never want sex again”

• Women who fear they’ve fallen out of love—even though their partner is a good man

• Women on HRT who are still symptomatic and suspect they’re underdosed

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