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The hormone that builds, cycles, and quietly runs the whole operation.
means A group of steroid hormones, most prominent in females, that drive the development of reproductive tissue and regulate the menstrual cycle.
from Built in the lab of language rather than folklore: from Greek 'oistros' meaning frenzy or gadfly-sting (the word originally described the maddening sting of desire or heat in animals) plus '-gen', meaning 'producer of' — from 'gignesthai', to be born or produced. Chemists coined 'estrogen' in the early 20th century, once the hormone was isolated, as literally 'that which produces estrus' — the fertile heat-cycle seen in other mammals.
- not just ovaries
- fat tissue and brains make it too
- bone keeper
- its drop is why menopause weakens bones
- men have it
- testosterone converts into estrogen via aromatase
- mood wiring
- shapes serotonin, hence hormonal mood swings