Woman: An Intimate Geography (130 page)

Authors: Natalie Angier

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BOOK: Woman: An Intimate Geography

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postmenopausal women, 104-5

grandmother hypothesis, 218-32, 234-37

Hadza, 217

hormone generation or decline in, 9, 50, 86, 187-88

hormone therapy (HRT) for, 184, 185, 207-14, 220, 232-33

and muscle, 292-93

vaginal atrophy, 60

"zest" of, 219, 220

weight and muscle and, 186

Menstruation, 83, 91, 92, 93, 165

as defense system, 102-3, 222

theory challenged, 103-7

as dynamic affair, 100

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