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Interesting. How about post-menopause women?
by incompatible 4y ago
Interesting. How about post-menopause women?
- vanderZwan 4y agoIs there something biologically special about post-menopause women that makes you wonder if this applies to them?
- incompatible 4y agoLower estrogen. The article says estrogen interferes with the effect in women.
- vanderZwan 4y agoThanks, that makes sense. To the other comments: I understand that a woman undergoes many changes when she goes through menopause. I was curious about which one in particular would be relevant here.
- bloppe 4y ago
- EdwardDiego 4y ago> Is there something biologically special about post-menopause women Many things. Hormone levels alter dramatically, so the question you're replying to is very valid.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoThere are some risk factors that really change once women go through menopause. This is directly related to hormones. Basically, some risk factors that weren't issues in women pre-menopause start to mirror the risk factor that men face. The biggest one I can think of is heart health. Before menopause, less risk. Afterwards, the risk is more equal to men's risks. And granted, I'm talking generally. I'm not a doctor, simply female and know these risks will change for me. And I also am simplifying here: Male/female is used in a general sense and I really don't know how hormones affect transfolks' risks (for example).
- incompatible 4y agoApparently one of the side-effects of menopause can be weight gain. I was thinking of that with my original comment, that if less estrogen stopped the blocking of increased ghrelin promotion and caused an increase in appetite, it could explain (some part) of the effect.
- bregma 4y agoBiologically there isn't much difference between a man and a post-menopausal woman. At that point the differences are almost entirely sociological.
- adrianN 4y agoI'm pretty sure most men have higher testosterone than post-menopausal women.
- simiones 4y agoBiologically, there is a huge difference between a man and a post-menopausal woman. At best, you could say that hormonally they are more similar, though even that is not entirely true. But hormones have many long term effects that menopause doesn't and can't erase (for example, post-menopausal women's gonads do not typically descend from their abdomens into a pouch, as they tend to do in males under the effects of testosterone; post-menopausal women also have significantly higher rates of uterine cancers than men do).
- aliswe 4y agoThanks ... you made my day!