It’s the bigtime for hormones in the must read New
England Journal of Medicine.
According to a study published Wednesday, it seems that
estrogen, the female sex hormone, plays a big role in men’s bodies – much
bigger than anyone ever thought – and that our menfolk, too, suffer from expanding
waistlines with falling levels of estrogen in middle age.
I am not authorized to speak on my husband’s behalf
regarding these findings, so I won’t. As
for me, however, I miss my estrogen for lots of reasons, but mostly because of
the whole tire around the middle/low metabolism/libido stuff associated with
its decline.
That said, I wouldn’t want to go through menopause again, oh
no. Hot flashes? They’re not the
greatest. The whole bipolar wackiness thing I experienced during the, ahem, “transition”?
Not ok.
Still, I opted out of estrogen therapy because breast cancer
is not on my bucket list.
Once they've heard this news, watch how quickly men start worrying about menopause
and breasts and stuff that they really thought was just our problem. Now menopause
is truly everyone’s problem.
I find some comfort in that, I do.
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