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Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2
May 2 2007 at 4:20 PM
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I thought we should start a new thread continuing this interesting subject that Fennel had started.
The original one filled up quickly and we sort of headed in another direction on that one.
There is alot of good info.out there that can be posted here! :-)
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(Login Blu-Jay) I Guess I'll Start Off May 2 2007, 5:27 PM
This one has some interesting info.
www.hairfacts.com/index.html
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 2 2007, 10:13 PM
Ooooooh! Nice link!
And looky what I found at the bottom of that page,
http://www.tsroadmap.com/
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 2 2007, 11:20 PM
Ooooooo, and another link,
http://www.jenellerose.com
Thanks Bluejay, good find!
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 3 2007, 9:43 AM
And here's another interesting link..
http://etransgender.com/
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 6 2007, 10:24 PM
Green tea warning! Green tea taken with some herbs can be very harmful to your liver!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11...ities.html
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 7 2007, 6:59 AM
Big gals. Really BIG gals.
You have to see this to believe it. Even as big as these gals are, I doubt that anyone would ever for a second doubt that they are pure female. Of course they've got a full lifetime as being female to perfect the art of being female.
Point I guess I'm trying to make, tall and or bulky doesn't mean you aren't female no more than being short and petite.
Check it out, it pretty cool. I like these big gals. (girl #2 scares me though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AY1JIOWFY
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(no login) Big Girls May 7 2007, 2:39 PM
Moonstruck! I'm having problems getting that video to work. I press the play and I get the picture of the guy sitting the chair but it won't go any further. I've tried all kinds of things to get it work. Any ideas? :-\
I was wondering, would I need to sign on with
U-tube to play it?
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 7 2007, 7:13 PM
Oh boy, that could be all sorts of things.
I assume you use windows? (there are also Mac and Linux pc's too)
If you use windows, I would suggest you download and install the Firefox browser, it's about the best and safest browser for windows anyway. You can get it here, http://www.mozilla.com
Secondly, you will have to install the Abode/Macromedia Flash Player v9. you can get it here, http://www.adobe.com (look for the download shockwave/flashplayer button)
Firefox will ask if you want to import your IE bookmarks, cookies, passwords, etc.. It's perfectly safe to tell it yes.
You are far better off with Firefox than IE any day of the week.
After that you should be good to go..
P.S. I dug around my drives and found that Documentary "100% Woman" plus I have that MSNBC show too, I'm going to convert them to Divx and put them where people can get them. Both are shows everyone will want to see.
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(Login moonstruck61) Titty beer is for real! May 15 2007, 10:54 AM
I don't drink alcohol though so I won't be sampling this. I despise the smell and taste of beer or alcohol.
Even though this drink is non-alcoholic it still tastes and smells like beer. Yuk!
BUT, IF I did drink, this would have to be the one I would drink!
Actually I wish they would put this in an energy drink instead, like Red Bull or Monster or any of the many other types of energy drinks. I like them and I would certainly drink a LOT of it if they had this in them!
http://www.beveragedaily.com/news/ng.asp...functional
Czech scientists brew menopause beer
By Chris Mercer
01/06/2006- Czech scientists say they have created a new non-alcoholic beer that contains 10 times the normal amount of phytoestrogen, intended to help women suffering from the menopause.
The beer, developed by the Czech Republic's Research Institute for Brewing and Malting, is intended to relieve menopausal symptoms and maintain bone density by tackling a lack of the oestrogen hormone in many Czech women.
The development marks a sizeable breakthrough in the realm of functional beer, at a time when functional foods are becoming more popular in many markets.
Oestrogen levels drop significantly in women at the onset of the menopause and remain low from then on. Studies have linked a lack of the hormone to increased risk of various health problems, including heart disease and osteoporosis.
"Czech women lack oestrogen in their diet, so we wanted to solve this through beer because the Czech Republic is number one in the world for beer consumption," Karel Kosar, managing director of the brewing research institute, told Cee-FoodIndustry.com.
Czechs drink an average 161 litres of beer each every year, compared to 121 in Germany, 84 in the US and around one litre in India.
Scientists have known for some time that hops used to make beer naturally contain phytoestrogen, a form of the estrogen hormone found in plants.
Kosar said he and the team had used newly developed technology to make the beer.
He said the technique should also enable them to make the beer non-alcoholic yet preserve taste by maintaining the same levels of hops and malt as a normal alcoholic lager.
The scientists now plan to expand the research to bring their new beer closer to its market debut. Funding could be a problem, however. "We are looking to do more research, but everything costs money," said Kosar.
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 15 2007, 11:14 AM
Japanese women getting "curvier"..
http://www.thestar.com/Life/article/211747
Sounds soooo scrumptious! I would love to go to Japan and fest my eyes upon the lovely curse of those cute little hotties.
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 15 2007, 7:42 PM
Oh dear me! I have got to stop posting stuff when I'm about to go to bed. I just read all the typo's I made last night and it's appalling. In the above post I meant *feast* and not "fest", *curves* and not "curse"...
Sheesh. That's pretty awful of me.
Anyway.......
Since this is the "Interesting Facts" thread I wanted to mention something I've observed and experienced that seems to go against everything I've read.
I mentioned this previously and gave a fairly detailed description of how my sexual functions were for before I started taking herbs and how vastly improved things are after beginning herbs. And when I say it's improved, I mean a LOT..
Well, I don't think it's "just me" or just an isolated instance. I have the good fortune to have Canadian satellite and beyond that, it's my very good fortune that they carry the one particular flavor of porn that I enjoy most. What else? TS/TG/Shemale/Ladyboy/CWD porn. Mmmmmmmmm.....
(If you have BEV you can find it on Venus 5 Channel 755) Well, video came on this morning and I programmed my PVR to record it. I sleep with the TV on because I can't sleep if it's quiet and dark. Well, I woke up and looked at the TV, the PVR was on duty as expected, it had changed channels and began recording my show which was playing. And on screen was this really, really beautiful TS girl. I mean she was HOT... Never in a million years would anyone ever guess she's TG.. Her body was perfect, all the right curves in all the right places, and I mean just right. Just right. She was 100% female in appearance but with that one secret exception. Her breasts were not large, I would estimate they were just at a B cup. It was obvious she did NOT have implants (implants are soooooo obvious) they were totally natural, you could tell from the size, shape and how they moved when she handled them
The cameraman had gotten some very good close ups of her breasts from all angles and there were no scars of any kind, not around the nipples or under the breasts. I've gotten very good at spotting them, I always cheer on the "grow your own" girls because they inspire me. ANYONE can get FAKE implants but to grow a pair the natural way takes dedication.
Annnnywaaaaaay, to get to my point, this chick was petite, luscious, scrumptious and drop dead sexy. Now, everyone always says, "Taking female hormones will render the male equipment useless, non functional, shrivel it up and dry it out to a point that it's just a little insignificant meaty thing down there that no longer operates." Um, excuse me but I don't think so.
In my case, my sexual functions are vastly improved. Before the herbs it was just about useless and now it's 180 degrees the opposite. And the girl I saw in the video? Her "tool" was not only impressive (which was a *HUGE* surprise because she hid it behind a tiny little G-string) but the guy that was doing her freaked out when she came. I freaked out. It was incredible, it was like she was a human firehose. I mean WOW! Double WOW, WOW and WOW!! Awesome! She hosed down the place, all over her face, the headboard behind her, all over her own breasts (YUM!!) and everywhere and everything else within 2 meters!!
GUYS would be jealous of her capacity and performance. The guy that was doing her was amazed and commented to that fact, he said it was so impressive that it brought him to the edge. So he proceeds to his money shot routine and attempts to put it on her breasts (so typical).. Guess what? He did it but I was NOT impressed. She had him beat so badly that I'll bet he was *ashamed* that a GIRL (and a darn sexy one too) out preformed him! Shemales do it better!! Hahahaha! I also have to mention that in this particular video ALL the TG girls were really pretty and ALL of them would pass with great ease. I'm sooooo jealous of them, I mean really jealous. But this one girl out-preformed everyone in the video, male, female and otherwise. And they were all naturally feminized except one but at least they had did a decent job on her because the scars were minimal, under the breast and will very likely fade away over time. I just don't like that fakey glued on globes look. But still, she was pretty overall in general.
Now this girl obviously has been on some sort of hormonal routine for at least several years, you don't get a body that looks that good overnight or in some chainsaw chop shop. I'm pretty sure the video was in Brazil but can't be 100% certain, I don't recognize their language, it's subtitled in English. If it is in Brazil she could have been taking hormones from an early age, this girl was at the most, maybe 19 or 20 years old and totally passable. She could strip down to a G-string in a women's locker room and no one would be the wiser, she looked *that good*. I wonder what hormones she's been taking to have developed such a magnificent body but still keep her tool in perfect (and very impressive) working order.
I want to think she's done it with herbs but in Brazil I hear hormones are very easy to get, no prescription needed, just walk in a store and buy them off the shelf, no age restrictions, anyone that wants them can have them cheaply. If chemical female hormones are so cheap and so easy to get I wonder what would make someone go herbal instead. Of course I have no way to know what this girl takes.
Being a connoisseur of TS/TG porn (I have a few hundred gigs) I see plenty of it and I would guess that it's about 75% of the girls that are able to preform like a firehose. Most of them are what I call "overnight girls" in that they appear to have spent little if any time on hormones and sport fresh (and botched up) implant scars from the butcher shop. You don't see to many of the girls that are "purists" that got the femininity through hormones alone. Of that small group, about 25% seem to be in excellent working order and can really hose the place down in a very impressive way. I would like to know what it is they are taking.
I realize that most of them are young and probably began transition when they were teens (lucky them!) but they seem to have found the magic formula and are lucky enough to be able to live in both worlds at the same time. I wish I could have transitioned as a teen but oh well. In the 70's I didn't know that any such thing existed, I wasn't even aware of the concept of transsexualism or transgenderism. I had not even ever heard the word "transvestite" until the 80's. I guess I led a sheltered life. But even when I did hear those words and learned what they meant I knew that I certainly wasn't a transvestite because I was far more complex than that. Anyway, I ramble on. I get hopped up on coffee and type away like there's no tomorrow. Sorry..
I wonder how that Bovine Ovary would effect one? I mean would it feminine one to such a great degree but still leave the male equipment functional such as above? I wonder because I want to become as feminized as one can become but still leave the equipment in operational condition so that I can have some small private pleasures to enjoy, a little "release" from time to time because I know that I'll never be able to afford SRS not to mention I just can't do it because of family (I have kids and grandkids), I'm stuck here and at best I'll have to accept an in between state where I can go back and forth so I can appear as expected when expected to family but otherwise I can be who I really am when away from them.
So far, the herbs I'm taking seem to be causing me to have extraordinary releases and pleasure. I hope this isn't simply a phase that will go away, if things stay this way I'll be satisfied with that aspect of it, I'll have to be. Sure, I wish I could go all the way, I really do but that's just not going to happen. I'll have to learn what will put my body into the proper form as my mind sees it but still leave me able to enjoy sex. I don't want to ruin the only equipment I have. I know it's not the right equipment but it's all I have so I have to accept that and make sure it stays functional.
I think I'm going to buy lottery tickets each week (they are only a dollar). I might get luck and win a little money.
If I could even win a small game (minimum lottery prize is 4 million and they draw twice a week and it can go WAY up if there's no winners) I would set aside funds to have my receded hairline restored and have all this nasty body & facial hair removed once and forever, it *must* go. If I hit it big I would consider moving to Thailand, settle down and marry some sweet little Thai ladyboy, I have no desire at all for men, men turn me off completely and I don't even like to be around them at all. I love women but none will put up with someone like me. I've seen some gorgeous Thai ladyboys that are soooo sexy, waaaaaaay prettier and far more feminine than the Bazilian ladyboys. Of course that's just a little fantasy dream of mine that I know will never happen.
Sigh...
I suppose we all must have a little dream to take us away when we get down and blue...
Oh well, back to reality...
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 16 2007, 8:15 AM
I was doing some stuff on the PC and watching TV at the same time (I have a TV on my desk next to my monitor).
The show I was watching ended so I browsed through the satellite channel guide and once again, TS porn was on.
Yeah, I've seen it a *bunch of times* but I really never, ever tire of it. So I selected the show and resumed my PC
stuff. Of course this show was the one with the really hot chicks so it was hard to ignore it because it was right there next to
my PC display. So I stopped work and watched for a few minutes as this one really hot looking red head babe ( http://web.newsguy.com/ReaLi5TiX/BodySho...Branco.jpg ) was on
and it really began to bug me that I couldn't figure out what they were speaking. I was pretty sure that it was Brazil
but I've never heard anyone speak it and someone else say "That was just Brazilian you just heard."..
What confused me was that they kept saying "ciao" which I assumed was an Italian greeting plus they referred to a Chalet in the mountains.
So I went and looked up the name of the movie to see what I could learn, on the satellite there were no credits at all, only the name of the movie and the actresses were listed. So I set out a search for "Surprise! I have a D**k" and after a heck of a lot of digging around I came to the conclusion that they were speaking Portuguese and that these films were all shot in Brazil, as I thought. I had incorrectly assumed they would be speaking Spanish. Shows how much I get around! Ok, mystery solved.
Now, here's the best part of my quest for knowledge. While searching for info on the movies, I searched for the names of the girls and in that I stumbled upon a wonderful little website, TransSexual Identification Database
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TransSexual Identification Database
* What is this?
A non-profit-project, with the purpose to add as many popular transsexuals as possible in a database, linked to a picture for easy identification. Additionally there is a filmography, when available. BTW, a transsexual is not the same as a transvestite.
* Why did you put it up?
Basically, because I don't know of any similar alternatives, except for TS-directory which wasn't updated for some time but now seems to be active again.
Also, check out Gollum's a.b.p.e.t.a-faq-site, the ultimate Guru of TS-girls in usenet.
* Can I help?
If you should know some extra information or corrections,or have comments you may write to me . Thank you.
If you know of girls who have performed in movies not covered here, then please tell me.
* Where are the copyright-banners on the Bodyshots.
I removed them. I want to provide the bodyshots as a reference without any distraction. And anyway, they are cropped and lowered in quality to preserve bandwidth, and aren't meant to compete with the original sites who offer these pics.
* Is the information correct?
For all I know it is as meticulous as the different sources I consulted, but probably there are numerous errors.
http://web.newsguy.com/ReaLi5TiX/home.htm
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This is awesome if you are a connoisseur of Transsexual/Transgender videos!
There is even a thumbnail browser so you can search for your favorite starlet even if you don't know her name, just spot her picture and click. You'll find a cheat sheet with all her BIO info right there, age, country, real name, movies starred in, etc..
Very nicely done! And if you want to see some hot TS/TG chicks, here's a bunch of them to get you started.
Check out this incredible babe, http://web.newsguy.com/ReaLi5TiX/BodyShots/Saskya.jpg
I *think* she's from Russia or somewhere in that part of the world. Her BIO is empty.
Anyway, the site is a great resource for those of you that enjoy this flavor of porn, I'm sure you'll find it very handy.. (Pun intended!)
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 17 2007, 10:46 AM
Check this out, quite amazing what this person has achieved.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2sopK5AUYAw
(here's all the stuff she's posted on youtube about transitioning - http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Kibouo )
Also check the links on that page, there's a lot of other videos on youtube about MTF stuff, voice, clothing, appearance, etc..
And here's some more stuff.
http://www.looking-glass.greenend.org.uk/voice.htm
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(no login) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 19 2007, 8:22 AM
This is a very interesting read about wild yam
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/medicinal-herbs/part3/
About progesterone cream and wild yam cream
http://www.healthyhormones.com/news/news02.htm
Some womans findings about progesterone cream
http://www.geocities.com/menobeyond/wildyam.html
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 20 2007, 5:24 AM
If you've ever seen the movie "TransAmerica" you may have noticed at the very beginning the star watching a video on voice training. Remember the girl in the video? She's a TS.. Incredible! She looks fantastic and her voice is great.
Who would ever guess? Check out this clip from the DVD at youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvakFukV_g
I went to the site where they sell these videos and found they have an entire package of NINE DVD's on becoming female the right way. But, it's $150.. So I'll have to save my pennies and nickels for a long time, I *want* their package but I have other things that are more important right now.
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(no login) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 20 2007, 12:59 PM
Boy! Moonstruck, The first chance I get I'll have to check some of these sites out.
Honestly, I've never really seen Trans.Porn!
Blu-Jay :-)
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 20 2007, 8:51 PM
Ah, the links above have nothing to do with porn.
As for finding TS porn, there's a LOT of it to be found on peer to peer networks and there's a tiny smattering of it that shows up on satellite TV on occasion. I wish they would dedicate a channel to it but I'm not holding my breath. At least they play a little bit of it.
They play none at all on the US satellite networks, you have to get Canadian satellite. There are some other satellite services that offer TS porn but you have to buy special equipment and subscribe to them separately from normal satellite TV.
If you've never seen it before, you're in for a real treat. I was so happy to find it, other porn simply doesn't interest me, I find it boring and lame. I wish they would also offer other kinky and perverted flavors of porn on satellite but I guess it's too taboo for the world.
The world doesn't know what they are missing. Plain old sex is so boring. I don't know why people are so uptight about having fun with sex. They treat it like it's something bad that you have to do to survive but it must be kept hush-hush in the shadows.
How sad. Sex should be FUN!!
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(no login) Ooops! Moonstruck May 21 2007, 7:02 AM
I knew that those sites you had posted had nothing to do with porn.
I just read that dumb message I had posted and saw that it didn't sound the way I wanted it to. HE HE In a hurry,I was trying to say two different things with one short post. :-]
Anyways,Yes I've never seen trans.porn although I've seen quite a few pics of it.
Sorry for giving you the impression that I didn't understand your post. :-)
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 21 2007, 8:20 AM
No problem. I'm tired and frustrated today because I'm having electrical problems here so I wasn't really all there when I read what you posted.
Anyhow... If you've seen some pix, let me tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet!
You need a cable modem and a few peer to peer programs. Oh, and a HUGE hard drive.
500gb hard drives are now about $110 because they just came out with new 1 terrabyte drives a few weeks ago.
Set up a home theatre and load it up with TS porn and you'll be one step closer to heaven.
Even better, put it up on a 54" plasma TV. Your neighbors, friends and family would never see you again, they would put out an APB for you then they would eventually find you in your home glued to your big screen TV.. Literally.. ;-P
I've seen some TS porn stars that are just luscious. Oh my, oh me! What I wouldn't give!
What I like about TS porn, I can see myself there, in either role. I only like TS porn where it's TS / TS or TS / GG..
I don't much care for TS porn that involves men but I will watch it if that's all that's on.
There's one in particular,
So far on BEV satellite, they have been running the stuff but it's always, always, always TS / male..
But, I still watch & record it all anyway. I have a pretty respectable collection, I would guess somewhere around 500gb, maybe more. (I'm not sure because I have several PC's with a lot of high capacity drives. I really don't know how much I have for sure..)
One of the best videos which happens to be one of my favorites, is "All American Shemale Road Trip #9" produced by Joey Silvera. The first two girls are gorgeous and well hung like little pink ponies.. Oh what I would give to be there.... They are soooooo edible.. *Drool* I suppose if you have money to burn you can purchase them on DVD but there a LOT of them on P2P for free...
** ONE of the pics is NSFW but only shows a little boobie, no real porn.
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/.../All-2.jpg **
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/.../All-1.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/...ms/All.jpg
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 22 2007, 7:19 AM
Found this little tidbit. I think we can all pretty much agree that this is true. I've personally experienced such things.
http://transhouston.com/cgi-bin/members/cforums.cgi?forumid=114257250028920&postid=9990246883819&action=messages&threadid=9990246883819&
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As part of writing project I am working on, I found this very interesting article abstracted in Public Medline.
Published in November 2006 in the European Journal of Endocrinology, it is called
"Changing your sex changes your brain: influences of testosterone and estrogen on adult human brain structure"
and is abstracted thus:
OBJECTIVE: Sex hormones are not only involved in the formation of reproductive organs, but also induce sexually-dimorphic brain development and organization. Cross-sex hormone administration to transsexuals provides a unique possibility to study the effects of sex steroids on brain morphology in young adulthood.
METHODS: Magnetic resonance brain images were made prior to, and during, cross-sex hormone treatment to study the influence of anti-androgen + estrogen treatment on brain morphology in eight young adult male-to-female transsexual human subjects and of androgen treatment in six female-to-male transsexuals.
RESULTS: Compared with controls, anti-androgen + estrogen treatment decreased brain volumes of male-to-female subjects towards female proportions, while androgen treatment in female-to-male subjects increased total brain and hypothalamus volumes towards male proportions.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that, throughout life, gonadal hormones remain essential for maintaining aspects of sex-specific differences in the human brain.
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Many of us on HRT either know or strongly suspect from personal experience that adult HRT can have powerful psychological, cognitive and emotional effects; and it is interesting to see that researchers have now shown some of the specific ways adult HRT changes brain structure, which one would expect could bring about powerful changes.
May 2 2007 at 4:20 PM
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I thought we should start a new thread continuing this interesting subject that Fennel had started.
The original one filled up quickly and we sort of headed in another direction on that one.
There is alot of good info.out there that can be posted here! :-)
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(Login Blu-Jay) I Guess I'll Start Off May 2 2007, 5:27 PM
This one has some interesting info.
www.hairfacts.com/index.html
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 2 2007, 10:13 PM
Ooooooh! Nice link!
And looky what I found at the bottom of that page,
http://www.tsroadmap.com/
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 2 2007, 11:20 PM
Ooooooo, and another link,
http://www.jenellerose.com
Thanks Bluejay, good find!
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 3 2007, 9:43 AM
And here's another interesting link..
http://etransgender.com/
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 6 2007, 10:24 PM
Green tea warning! Green tea taken with some herbs can be very harmful to your liver!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11...ities.html
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 7 2007, 6:59 AM
Big gals. Really BIG gals.
You have to see this to believe it. Even as big as these gals are, I doubt that anyone would ever for a second doubt that they are pure female. Of course they've got a full lifetime as being female to perfect the art of being female.
Point I guess I'm trying to make, tall and or bulky doesn't mean you aren't female no more than being short and petite.
Check it out, it pretty cool. I like these big gals. (girl #2 scares me though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AY1JIOWFY
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(no login) Big Girls May 7 2007, 2:39 PM
Moonstruck! I'm having problems getting that video to work. I press the play and I get the picture of the guy sitting the chair but it won't go any further. I've tried all kinds of things to get it work. Any ideas? :-\
I was wondering, would I need to sign on with
U-tube to play it?
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 7 2007, 7:13 PM
Oh boy, that could be all sorts of things.
I assume you use windows? (there are also Mac and Linux pc's too)
If you use windows, I would suggest you download and install the Firefox browser, it's about the best and safest browser for windows anyway. You can get it here, http://www.mozilla.com
Secondly, you will have to install the Abode/Macromedia Flash Player v9. you can get it here, http://www.adobe.com (look for the download shockwave/flashplayer button)
Firefox will ask if you want to import your IE bookmarks, cookies, passwords, etc.. It's perfectly safe to tell it yes.
You are far better off with Firefox than IE any day of the week.
After that you should be good to go..
P.S. I dug around my drives and found that Documentary "100% Woman" plus I have that MSNBC show too, I'm going to convert them to Divx and put them where people can get them. Both are shows everyone will want to see.
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(Login moonstruck61) Titty beer is for real! May 15 2007, 10:54 AM
I don't drink alcohol though so I won't be sampling this. I despise the smell and taste of beer or alcohol.
Even though this drink is non-alcoholic it still tastes and smells like beer. Yuk!
BUT, IF I did drink, this would have to be the one I would drink!
Actually I wish they would put this in an energy drink instead, like Red Bull or Monster or any of the many other types of energy drinks. I like them and I would certainly drink a LOT of it if they had this in them!
http://www.beveragedaily.com/news/ng.asp...functional
Czech scientists brew menopause beer
By Chris Mercer
01/06/2006- Czech scientists say they have created a new non-alcoholic beer that contains 10 times the normal amount of phytoestrogen, intended to help women suffering from the menopause.
The beer, developed by the Czech Republic's Research Institute for Brewing and Malting, is intended to relieve menopausal symptoms and maintain bone density by tackling a lack of the oestrogen hormone in many Czech women.
The development marks a sizeable breakthrough in the realm of functional beer, at a time when functional foods are becoming more popular in many markets.
Oestrogen levels drop significantly in women at the onset of the menopause and remain low from then on. Studies have linked a lack of the hormone to increased risk of various health problems, including heart disease and osteoporosis.
"Czech women lack oestrogen in their diet, so we wanted to solve this through beer because the Czech Republic is number one in the world for beer consumption," Karel Kosar, managing director of the brewing research institute, told Cee-FoodIndustry.com.
Czechs drink an average 161 litres of beer each every year, compared to 121 in Germany, 84 in the US and around one litre in India.
Scientists have known for some time that hops used to make beer naturally contain phytoestrogen, a form of the estrogen hormone found in plants.
Kosar said he and the team had used newly developed technology to make the beer.
He said the technique should also enable them to make the beer non-alcoholic yet preserve taste by maintaining the same levels of hops and malt as a normal alcoholic lager.
The scientists now plan to expand the research to bring their new beer closer to its market debut. Funding could be a problem, however. "We are looking to do more research, but everything costs money," said Kosar.
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 15 2007, 11:14 AM
Japanese women getting "curvier"..
http://www.thestar.com/Life/article/211747
Sounds soooo scrumptious! I would love to go to Japan and fest my eyes upon the lovely curse of those cute little hotties.
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 15 2007, 7:42 PM
Oh dear me! I have got to stop posting stuff when I'm about to go to bed. I just read all the typo's I made last night and it's appalling. In the above post I meant *feast* and not "fest", *curves* and not "curse"...
Sheesh. That's pretty awful of me.
Anyway.......
Since this is the "Interesting Facts" thread I wanted to mention something I've observed and experienced that seems to go against everything I've read.
I mentioned this previously and gave a fairly detailed description of how my sexual functions were for before I started taking herbs and how vastly improved things are after beginning herbs. And when I say it's improved, I mean a LOT..
Well, I don't think it's "just me" or just an isolated instance. I have the good fortune to have Canadian satellite and beyond that, it's my very good fortune that they carry the one particular flavor of porn that I enjoy most. What else? TS/TG/Shemale/Ladyboy/CWD porn. Mmmmmmmmm.....
(If you have BEV you can find it on Venus 5 Channel 755) Well, video came on this morning and I programmed my PVR to record it. I sleep with the TV on because I can't sleep if it's quiet and dark. Well, I woke up and looked at the TV, the PVR was on duty as expected, it had changed channels and began recording my show which was playing. And on screen was this really, really beautiful TS girl. I mean she was HOT... Never in a million years would anyone ever guess she's TG.. Her body was perfect, all the right curves in all the right places, and I mean just right. Just right. She was 100% female in appearance but with that one secret exception. Her breasts were not large, I would estimate they were just at a B cup. It was obvious she did NOT have implants (implants are soooooo obvious) they were totally natural, you could tell from the size, shape and how they moved when she handled them
The cameraman had gotten some very good close ups of her breasts from all angles and there were no scars of any kind, not around the nipples or under the breasts. I've gotten very good at spotting them, I always cheer on the "grow your own" girls because they inspire me. ANYONE can get FAKE implants but to grow a pair the natural way takes dedication.
Annnnywaaaaaay, to get to my point, this chick was petite, luscious, scrumptious and drop dead sexy. Now, everyone always says, "Taking female hormones will render the male equipment useless, non functional, shrivel it up and dry it out to a point that it's just a little insignificant meaty thing down there that no longer operates." Um, excuse me but I don't think so.
In my case, my sexual functions are vastly improved. Before the herbs it was just about useless and now it's 180 degrees the opposite. And the girl I saw in the video? Her "tool" was not only impressive (which was a *HUGE* surprise because she hid it behind a tiny little G-string) but the guy that was doing her freaked out when she came. I freaked out. It was incredible, it was like she was a human firehose. I mean WOW! Double WOW, WOW and WOW!! Awesome! She hosed down the place, all over her face, the headboard behind her, all over her own breasts (YUM!!) and everywhere and everything else within 2 meters!!
GUYS would be jealous of her capacity and performance. The guy that was doing her was amazed and commented to that fact, he said it was so impressive that it brought him to the edge. So he proceeds to his money shot routine and attempts to put it on her breasts (so typical).. Guess what? He did it but I was NOT impressed. She had him beat so badly that I'll bet he was *ashamed* that a GIRL (and a darn sexy one too) out preformed him! Shemales do it better!! Hahahaha! I also have to mention that in this particular video ALL the TG girls were really pretty and ALL of them would pass with great ease. I'm sooooo jealous of them, I mean really jealous. But this one girl out-preformed everyone in the video, male, female and otherwise. And they were all naturally feminized except one but at least they had did a decent job on her because the scars were minimal, under the breast and will very likely fade away over time. I just don't like that fakey glued on globes look. But still, she was pretty overall in general.
Now this girl obviously has been on some sort of hormonal routine for at least several years, you don't get a body that looks that good overnight or in some chainsaw chop shop. I'm pretty sure the video was in Brazil but can't be 100% certain, I don't recognize their language, it's subtitled in English. If it is in Brazil she could have been taking hormones from an early age, this girl was at the most, maybe 19 or 20 years old and totally passable. She could strip down to a G-string in a women's locker room and no one would be the wiser, she looked *that good*. I wonder what hormones she's been taking to have developed such a magnificent body but still keep her tool in perfect (and very impressive) working order.
I want to think she's done it with herbs but in Brazil I hear hormones are very easy to get, no prescription needed, just walk in a store and buy them off the shelf, no age restrictions, anyone that wants them can have them cheaply. If chemical female hormones are so cheap and so easy to get I wonder what would make someone go herbal instead. Of course I have no way to know what this girl takes.
Being a connoisseur of TS/TG porn (I have a few hundred gigs) I see plenty of it and I would guess that it's about 75% of the girls that are able to preform like a firehose. Most of them are what I call "overnight girls" in that they appear to have spent little if any time on hormones and sport fresh (and botched up) implant scars from the butcher shop. You don't see to many of the girls that are "purists" that got the femininity through hormones alone. Of that small group, about 25% seem to be in excellent working order and can really hose the place down in a very impressive way. I would like to know what it is they are taking.
I realize that most of them are young and probably began transition when they were teens (lucky them!) but they seem to have found the magic formula and are lucky enough to be able to live in both worlds at the same time. I wish I could have transitioned as a teen but oh well. In the 70's I didn't know that any such thing existed, I wasn't even aware of the concept of transsexualism or transgenderism. I had not even ever heard the word "transvestite" until the 80's. I guess I led a sheltered life. But even when I did hear those words and learned what they meant I knew that I certainly wasn't a transvestite because I was far more complex than that. Anyway, I ramble on. I get hopped up on coffee and type away like there's no tomorrow. Sorry..
I wonder how that Bovine Ovary would effect one? I mean would it feminine one to such a great degree but still leave the male equipment functional such as above? I wonder because I want to become as feminized as one can become but still leave the equipment in operational condition so that I can have some small private pleasures to enjoy, a little "release" from time to time because I know that I'll never be able to afford SRS not to mention I just can't do it because of family (I have kids and grandkids), I'm stuck here and at best I'll have to accept an in between state where I can go back and forth so I can appear as expected when expected to family but otherwise I can be who I really am when away from them.
So far, the herbs I'm taking seem to be causing me to have extraordinary releases and pleasure. I hope this isn't simply a phase that will go away, if things stay this way I'll be satisfied with that aspect of it, I'll have to be. Sure, I wish I could go all the way, I really do but that's just not going to happen. I'll have to learn what will put my body into the proper form as my mind sees it but still leave me able to enjoy sex. I don't want to ruin the only equipment I have. I know it's not the right equipment but it's all I have so I have to accept that and make sure it stays functional.
I think I'm going to buy lottery tickets each week (they are only a dollar). I might get luck and win a little money.
If I could even win a small game (minimum lottery prize is 4 million and they draw twice a week and it can go WAY up if there's no winners) I would set aside funds to have my receded hairline restored and have all this nasty body & facial hair removed once and forever, it *must* go. If I hit it big I would consider moving to Thailand, settle down and marry some sweet little Thai ladyboy, I have no desire at all for men, men turn me off completely and I don't even like to be around them at all. I love women but none will put up with someone like me. I've seen some gorgeous Thai ladyboys that are soooo sexy, waaaaaaay prettier and far more feminine than the Bazilian ladyboys. Of course that's just a little fantasy dream of mine that I know will never happen.
Sigh...
I suppose we all must have a little dream to take us away when we get down and blue...
Oh well, back to reality...
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 16 2007, 8:15 AM
I was doing some stuff on the PC and watching TV at the same time (I have a TV on my desk next to my monitor).
The show I was watching ended so I browsed through the satellite channel guide and once again, TS porn was on.
Yeah, I've seen it a *bunch of times* but I really never, ever tire of it. So I selected the show and resumed my PC
stuff. Of course this show was the one with the really hot chicks so it was hard to ignore it because it was right there next to
my PC display. So I stopped work and watched for a few minutes as this one really hot looking red head babe ( http://web.newsguy.com/ReaLi5TiX/BodySho...Branco.jpg ) was on
and it really began to bug me that I couldn't figure out what they were speaking. I was pretty sure that it was Brazil
but I've never heard anyone speak it and someone else say "That was just Brazilian you just heard."..
What confused me was that they kept saying "ciao" which I assumed was an Italian greeting plus they referred to a Chalet in the mountains.
So I went and looked up the name of the movie to see what I could learn, on the satellite there were no credits at all, only the name of the movie and the actresses were listed. So I set out a search for "Surprise! I have a D**k" and after a heck of a lot of digging around I came to the conclusion that they were speaking Portuguese and that these films were all shot in Brazil, as I thought. I had incorrectly assumed they would be speaking Spanish. Shows how much I get around! Ok, mystery solved.
Now, here's the best part of my quest for knowledge. While searching for info on the movies, I searched for the names of the girls and in that I stumbled upon a wonderful little website, TransSexual Identification Database
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TransSexual Identification Database
* What is this?
A non-profit-project, with the purpose to add as many popular transsexuals as possible in a database, linked to a picture for easy identification. Additionally there is a filmography, when available. BTW, a transsexual is not the same as a transvestite.
* Why did you put it up?
Basically, because I don't know of any similar alternatives, except for TS-directory which wasn't updated for some time but now seems to be active again.
Also, check out Gollum's a.b.p.e.t.a-faq-site, the ultimate Guru of TS-girls in usenet.
* Can I help?
If you should know some extra information or corrections,or have comments you may write to me . Thank you.
If you know of girls who have performed in movies not covered here, then please tell me.
* Where are the copyright-banners on the Bodyshots.
I removed them. I want to provide the bodyshots as a reference without any distraction. And anyway, they are cropped and lowered in quality to preserve bandwidth, and aren't meant to compete with the original sites who offer these pics.
* Is the information correct?
For all I know it is as meticulous as the different sources I consulted, but probably there are numerous errors.
http://web.newsguy.com/ReaLi5TiX/home.htm
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This is awesome if you are a connoisseur of Transsexual/Transgender videos!
There is even a thumbnail browser so you can search for your favorite starlet even if you don't know her name, just spot her picture and click. You'll find a cheat sheet with all her BIO info right there, age, country, real name, movies starred in, etc..
Very nicely done! And if you want to see some hot TS/TG chicks, here's a bunch of them to get you started.
Check out this incredible babe, http://web.newsguy.com/ReaLi5TiX/BodyShots/Saskya.jpg
I *think* she's from Russia or somewhere in that part of the world. Her BIO is empty.
Anyway, the site is a great resource for those of you that enjoy this flavor of porn, I'm sure you'll find it very handy.. (Pun intended!)
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 17 2007, 10:46 AM
Check this out, quite amazing what this person has achieved.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2sopK5AUYAw
(here's all the stuff she's posted on youtube about transitioning - http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Kibouo )
Also check the links on that page, there's a lot of other videos on youtube about MTF stuff, voice, clothing, appearance, etc..
And here's some more stuff.
http://www.looking-glass.greenend.org.uk/voice.htm
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(no login) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 19 2007, 8:22 AM
This is a very interesting read about wild yam
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/medicinal-herbs/part3/
About progesterone cream and wild yam cream
http://www.healthyhormones.com/news/news02.htm
Some womans findings about progesterone cream
http://www.geocities.com/menobeyond/wildyam.html
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 20 2007, 5:24 AM
If you've ever seen the movie "TransAmerica" you may have noticed at the very beginning the star watching a video on voice training. Remember the girl in the video? She's a TS.. Incredible! She looks fantastic and her voice is great.
Who would ever guess? Check out this clip from the DVD at youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvakFukV_g
I went to the site where they sell these videos and found they have an entire package of NINE DVD's on becoming female the right way. But, it's $150.. So I'll have to save my pennies and nickels for a long time, I *want* their package but I have other things that are more important right now.
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(no login) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 20 2007, 12:59 PM
Boy! Moonstruck, The first chance I get I'll have to check some of these sites out.
Honestly, I've never really seen Trans.Porn!
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 20 2007, 8:51 PM
Ah, the links above have nothing to do with porn.
As for finding TS porn, there's a LOT of it to be found on peer to peer networks and there's a tiny smattering of it that shows up on satellite TV on occasion. I wish they would dedicate a channel to it but I'm not holding my breath. At least they play a little bit of it.
They play none at all on the US satellite networks, you have to get Canadian satellite. There are some other satellite services that offer TS porn but you have to buy special equipment and subscribe to them separately from normal satellite TV.
If you've never seen it before, you're in for a real treat. I was so happy to find it, other porn simply doesn't interest me, I find it boring and lame. I wish they would also offer other kinky and perverted flavors of porn on satellite but I guess it's too taboo for the world.
The world doesn't know what they are missing. Plain old sex is so boring. I don't know why people are so uptight about having fun with sex. They treat it like it's something bad that you have to do to survive but it must be kept hush-hush in the shadows.
How sad. Sex should be FUN!!
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(no login) Ooops! Moonstruck May 21 2007, 7:02 AM
I knew that those sites you had posted had nothing to do with porn.
I just read that dumb message I had posted and saw that it didn't sound the way I wanted it to. HE HE In a hurry,I was trying to say two different things with one short post. :-]
Anyways,Yes I've never seen trans.porn although I've seen quite a few pics of it.
Sorry for giving you the impression that I didn't understand your post. :-)
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 21 2007, 8:20 AM
No problem. I'm tired and frustrated today because I'm having electrical problems here so I wasn't really all there when I read what you posted.
Anyhow... If you've seen some pix, let me tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet!
You need a cable modem and a few peer to peer programs. Oh, and a HUGE hard drive.
500gb hard drives are now about $110 because they just came out with new 1 terrabyte drives a few weeks ago.
Set up a home theatre and load it up with TS porn and you'll be one step closer to heaven.
Even better, put it up on a 54" plasma TV. Your neighbors, friends and family would never see you again, they would put out an APB for you then they would eventually find you in your home glued to your big screen TV.. Literally.. ;-P
I've seen some TS porn stars that are just luscious. Oh my, oh me! What I wouldn't give!
What I like about TS porn, I can see myself there, in either role. I only like TS porn where it's TS / TS or TS / GG..
I don't much care for TS porn that involves men but I will watch it if that's all that's on.
There's one in particular,
So far on BEV satellite, they have been running the stuff but it's always, always, always TS / male..
But, I still watch & record it all anyway. I have a pretty respectable collection, I would guess somewhere around 500gb, maybe more. (I'm not sure because I have several PC's with a lot of high capacity drives. I really don't know how much I have for sure..)
One of the best videos which happens to be one of my favorites, is "All American Shemale Road Trip #9" produced by Joey Silvera. The first two girls are gorgeous and well hung like little pink ponies.. Oh what I would give to be there.... They are soooooo edible.. *Drool* I suppose if you have money to burn you can purchase them on DVD but there a LOT of them on P2P for free...
** ONE of the pics is NSFW but only shows a little boobie, no real porn.
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/.../All-2.jpg **
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/.../All-1.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w279/...ms/All.jpg
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(Login moonstruck61) Re: Articles,Medical Studies and other Interesting Facts Post here #2 May 22 2007, 7:19 AM
Found this little tidbit. I think we can all pretty much agree that this is true. I've personally experienced such things.
http://transhouston.com/cgi-bin/members/cforums.cgi?forumid=114257250028920&postid=9990246883819&action=messages&threadid=9990246883819&
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As part of writing project I am working on, I found this very interesting article abstracted in Public Medline.
Published in November 2006 in the European Journal of Endocrinology, it is called
"Changing your sex changes your brain: influences of testosterone and estrogen on adult human brain structure"
and is abstracted thus:
OBJECTIVE: Sex hormones are not only involved in the formation of reproductive organs, but also induce sexually-dimorphic brain development and organization. Cross-sex hormone administration to transsexuals provides a unique possibility to study the effects of sex steroids on brain morphology in young adulthood.
METHODS: Magnetic resonance brain images were made prior to, and during, cross-sex hormone treatment to study the influence of anti-androgen + estrogen treatment on brain morphology in eight young adult male-to-female transsexual human subjects and of androgen treatment in six female-to-male transsexuals.
RESULTS: Compared with controls, anti-androgen + estrogen treatment decreased brain volumes of male-to-female subjects towards female proportions, while androgen treatment in female-to-male subjects increased total brain and hypothalamus volumes towards male proportions.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that, throughout life, gonadal hormones remain essential for maintaining aspects of sex-specific differences in the human brain.
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Many of us on HRT either know or strongly suspect from personal experience that adult HRT can have powerful psychological, cognitive and emotional effects; and it is interesting to see that researchers have now shown some of the specific ways adult HRT changes brain structure, which one would expect could bring about powerful changes.