et al. Obese young men have elevated plasma estrogen levels but obese premenopausal women do not. Metabolism 1981; 30: 1011-1014.Zumoff B, Strain GW, Kream J, O'Connor J, Levin J, et al.: Obese young men have e
In men, there are many observations suggesting that actions on estrogen receptors are not needed, and that androgens acting on the androgen receptor are the sole responsible for maintaining the activity of the sexual central motive state (see Le Moëne and Ågmo, 2019 for a review). Thus,...
Myth: Women only need to worry about their estrogen levels. Fact:It's important that all of a woman's hormone levels are in balance—including estrogen and progesterone…andtestosterone. Myth: Testosterone supplements are just for men.
Estrogen therapy in MTFs has been shown to impact performance on some (paired associate learning: immediate and delayed recall), but not all (mental rotation, controlled associates) tasks for which there are typical sex differences and in the direction that one would expect. No effect was observ...
Estrogen has a role to play in this and fluctuations in estrogen during mensuration cause many women to put on additional weight. The same thing happens when estrogen levels fluctuate at menopause. However, the fact that women normally have more fat than men do is not entirely bad. It’s be...
“Are you on your period?” It's a question most women have been asked at one point or another by their boyfriend or spouse during a disagreement. It turns out thatsome men actually can tell when it's a woman's time of the month—and it's not because of bratty behavior. ...
The boys on the shortest end looked like young middle school boys, while the teens on the tallest end looked like full-grown men. This photo was a good representation of the wide variability in growth for boys as they go through puberty. Girls aren’t quite so dramatic in their growth. ...
However, from a sociological perspective, the binary con- ception of men and women as somehow biologically fixed extensions of male and female genetic or chromosomal sex has been challenged. In particular, the socially constructed concept of "gender" has replaced "sex" with a fluid spectrum that...
How could the same hormone (e.g. estrogen, which is necessary for male and female fertility as well as many other functions) perform different functions in men and women? How are androgens used as a treatment for paraphilias? Give the following details for the hormone estrogen. How do stero...
“By menopause, estrogen is super low, testosterone has been declining for years, and progesterone is basically gone,” says Dweck. “While this can lead to lower libido, it doesn’t mean a woman’s sex life is over.” In fact, many of Dweck’s patients say they feel sexier than ...