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Ruth A. Beckett is a wife and mother who last week committed herself to take a mystery pill every night for the next eight to 12 years. In this "double-blind" study, neither she nor the researchers giving her the pills knows whether they are estrogen or merely placebos...
Gaziano said that "good cholesterol" is also produced by exercise, by estrogen in females and by other dietary factors...
...everyone is convinced, however. All the transsexuals in the Dutch study took the feminizing hormone estrogen. The smaller BSTc may therefore have been the result rather than the cause of their quest to become women. Swaab concedes this possibility but notes that two women in the study's control group were postmenopausal and presumably no longer manufactured much estrogen. Their BSTc was still the same size as the younger women's, which may mean that estrogen has no effect on the structure's size...
AREN'T WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT QUALITY of life vs. quantity of life? My aunt is in her 80s, I am in my 50s. She dances; I run--on estrogen. JILL SWEITZER Orinda, California...
THERE ARE MYRIAD WAYS TO GET AROUND the estrogen question. A woman can use herbs, vitamins and a positive mental at titude. A woman of my age (40) cannot remain ignorant of the "horrors" that lie ahead. But I wear my vivid shock of silver hair front and center. I survey my body with honest appraisal and admit that I don't look like I used to. And though faced with incontrovertible evidence that I have become "a woman of a certain age," I wouldn't be younger for anything or anyone. I am proud of what the years have...