Word: estrogenic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hacienda on a hilltop near Phoenix. "Women around the world are coming to the point where they are looking at their domestic situations and saying, 'My God, I'm going crazy, it's climbing-the-wall time,' " says Bombeck. She is 57 now ("somewhere between estrogen and death," she mutters); her three children are grown and flown, and the elegant white walls of her fine house do not have crayon marks or grape jelly on them. But motherhood is a sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck...
...soapy-looking yellow-white substance. Despite its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential to life: it is a building block of the outer membrane of cells, and it is a principal ingredient in the digestive juice bile, in the fatty sheath that insulates nerves, and in sex hormones such as estrogen and androgen. Although most of the cholesterol found in the body is produced in the liver, 20% to 30% generally comes from the food...
Previous studies among women have shown that starvation and large amounts of exercise may lower estrogen levels. While estrogen is a slightly different end product from testosterone, the metabolic processes that lead to the production of such sex hormones are essentially the same for men and women...
...test-tube fertilization; with her permission, they collected one more to be used in an impregnation attempt in another infertile woman. The prematurely menopausal woman was an ideal recipient. For 2½ months she had been primed for a possible pregnancy with daily doses of the hormones estrogen and progesterone. She matched the donor in eye and hair color, body build, social class and education level...
...body within limits. For instance, he used to tie his penis behind his rear end to hide it. Before his emasculation he would sleep with men but wear an impenetrable girdle. When his masculine side asserted itself. Raskind was very "sexually active" with women, even while his estrogen injections were still working: surprisingly, to say the least, he lived with women at several points although he had rather large breasts. And so forth...