Word: estrogen
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There are important distinctions between young and aging bodies, of course. At 50 or so, when women reach menopause, the loss of estrogen accelerates the deterioration of bone mass. Nothing so dramatic happens to men at that age, but psychologically it's a good opportunity to get them to modify their diets. It is hard to get a 30-year-old male to change his eating habits to reduce his risk of prostate cancer 20 or 30 years hence. But a 50-year-old, aware that men not much his senior are dying, is more likely to pay attention...
Osteoporosis is thought of as a woman's disease. Women are generally smaller than men and have less bone mass to begin with. They tend to consume less calcium and vitamin D over a lifetime, and in menopause their bodies stop producing bone-protecting estrogen. So when they reach their 70s, many women begin to suffer fractures. Men are not likely to reach that stage until they are in their 80s, and because comparatively few men have lived to be octogenarians, their risk has been more theoretical than real. But as men live longer, osteoporosis will be a major problem...
...lowers cholesterol levels in the first place. For a long time they believed the key ingredients to be isoflavones--which sounds like the name of a new rock band but in fact refers to a group of naturally occurring plant chemicals that weakly mimic the effects of estrogen hormones in some parts of the body while acting like antihormones in others...
...Previous studies showed that women who eat soy products such as tofu and soy milk are less likely to develop breast cancer. But it was never clear why. Now a small study of two dozen women may point to an answer: soy seems to keep circulating levels of estrogen low, which in turn inhibits breast cells from proliferating. Women in the study drank more than four glasses of soy milk a day for one month, and their peak blood levels of estrogen dropped...
...healthy heterosexual businesswoman. I can be as feminine as Marilyn Monroe, and I can be as energized as Jackie Chan. I am blessed with lots of estrogen and testosterone! I think of myself as a modern-day warrior. YVONNE SIET Hong Kong...