Context and Variation
Your Lady Parts Don’t Like It When You Get Sick: Relationships Between Immune Health and Reproductive Hormones
Life history trade-offs are the bread and butter of biological anthropology. The way we understand the importance of certain traits and life events is in how they vary in response to selection pressures like energy availability or climate, but also cultural beliefs and practices. That’s why it matters to us when you got your first [...]
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Context and Variation
Don’t Sweat It: Premenopausal Women, Reproductive State, and the Joy of Night Sweats
December 14th, 2012 |
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I tend to go to bed freezing, especially so in the winter, so I pile our flannel sheet, blanket, and down comforter over me when I settle in to sleep. A few times each menstrual cycle, clustered together in the luteal phase between ovulation and menses, I wake up from sleep completely soaked in my [...]
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