[Penny4youthots]

I also wanted to thank everyone who responded with tips, encouragement, and warnings. I have taken the things I have learned about licorice root very seriously and do not want to mess with it, and I might try PM as a cream or lotion in the future. I also forgot to report on another thing potentially affected by PM and any sort of hormone-related changes: my hair growth seems largely unchanged, though it might be growing back slower and thinner on my legs, particularly my thighs, and in the middle of my abdomen on my lower chest and above my belly button. So in the places where it was already thinnest, more or less. But it's hard to measure these things and it's possible I am just newly noticing just how much slower my hair already grows in these areas.