Woman: An Intimate Geography (130 page)

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Authors: Natalie Angier

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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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