Word: estrogenous
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Even traditionally male enclaves like online gaming are seeing an influx of estrogen. A year ago, the site Total Entertainment Network targeted hard-core gamers who played Quake and Duke Nukem online. The site was 98% male and had 30,000 subscribers. Last fall it changed its name to pogo.com and switched to more casual games like checkers, spades, bingo and euchre. Of its now 10 million users, 49% are women. The lesson: catering to women online isn't just open-minded; it's good business...
Cholesterol-lowering drugs, nerve-growth factors, antioxidants, estrogen replacement in postmenopausal women--the verdict on the capacity of such substances to protect against Alzheimer's is not yet in, but it is coming. What is so exciting about the presentations scientists will be making at the World Alzheimer Congress this week is the staggering breadth of research they represent. In coming years, Baptists and Tauists alike will undoubtedly encounter setbacks, and the 10 years that the optimists estimate it will take to get on top of this disease could easily stretch into...
Hormone-replacement therapy, as every woman of a certain age knows, is designed to make up for the body's lowered estrogen output during menopause. But many of these women also know that HRT has been linked--controversially--to an increased risk of breast cancer. Thus the interest in alternative therapies, both...
...older alternatives include a long list of natural remedies--vitamins, minerals, herbs and various supplements containing phytoestrogens (plant estrogens that seem to have estrogen-like effects in humans). Lately, phytoestrogens have become popular alternatives to standard HRT. Sales of supplements that contain soy isoflavones, a form of phytoestrogen, tripled from 1998 to 1999. Some women also take vitamin E for hot flashes, while others are turning to remedies based on such exotics as black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild...
...PILL Don't base your decision about whether to take birth-control pills solely on this finding, but an analysis of 40 years of data shows that taking low-dose estrogen formulations nearly doubles the odds of suffering a stroke. Worse, women on high-dose estrogen face a nearly threefold increased risk. A worry to be sure, but not a big one: the odds of a stroke among women of reproduction age are tiny to begin with--about...