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Thesis research done by Rachel C. Snow, another member of the team who is doing post-doctoral work at the SPH, has also served as important background information for the current NIH analysis...
...Snow, who also works at the Center for Population Studies, has researched estrogen metabolism in female athletes, basing most of her conclusions on a study of 10 "elite oarswomen" and the way their bodies process the female hormone involved in developing secondary sex characteristics...
...estrogen to "non-potent" forms, to which the reproductive organs will not respond. The increase in non-potent estrogen production also means that there is less normal hormone circulating in the blood, and this may lead to a lower risk of estrogen-dependent tumor development, such as breast cancer, Snow says...
...However, Snow, a former member of the national lightweight rowing team, found that not all women who exercise metabolize their estrogen in this way. Those women who do have the metabolic abnormality also have menstrual dysfunctions, are leaner and do not ovulate...
...Muller's teammate, rival and mirror image -- a cool, reserved fellow who skis with a risk taker's wild flair -- was .05 sec. ahead, then .23 sec. A big outdoor TV screen showed Zurbriggen so close to disaster on one free-falling left turn that his hand scraped the snow. Muller watched, motionless, as Zurbriggen flashed past the finish .51 sec. in the lead. He did not react as Pirmin, exulting, raised a ski and kissed it. Muller was just one of skiing's centurions. Zurbriggen was fortune's newest darling...