15-03-2012, 02:56 PM
This is an interesting question - and something I have been thinking about as well. There seems to be plenty of evidence that taking estrogenic herbs can change your fat distribution, but can it also change your skeleton shape as well ?
This isn`t such a silly question as you might think, because throughout your whole life your skeleton is changing shape. You start as a mini blob, bones grow, limbs grow - children and teenagers have a lots of limbs. As you go through adulthood, you gradually become smaller and fatter. This all well known and documented.
So is it possible that under the influence of hormones, your skeleton changes shape differently than it would under the influence of other hormones. So for M-->F, the shoulders get narrower, the pelvis grows outwards, possibly the rib cage shrinks.
Anyone know anything about it ?
This isn`t such a silly question as you might think, because throughout your whole life your skeleton is changing shape. You start as a mini blob, bones grow, limbs grow - children and teenagers have a lots of limbs. As you go through adulthood, you gradually become smaller and fatter. This all well known and documented.
So is it possible that under the influence of hormones, your skeleton changes shape differently than it would under the influence of other hormones. So for M-->F, the shoulders get narrower, the pelvis grows outwards, possibly the rib cage shrinks.
Anyone know anything about it ?