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In reply to the discussion: Boys Now Enter Puberty Younger, Study Suggests, but It’s Unclear Why [View all]wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)64. Girls hit puberty before they menstruate.
Many girls have breasts and public hair and have reached their full height sometimes years before they get their first period. Actually, menstruation is usually one of the last things that happens for girls going through puberty.
Puberty is marked by the surge of hormones that drives the development of secondary sex characteristics, not by any one event. The point of the article is that the trend is for these characteristics as a whole to develop earlier and earlier in both boys and girls.
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Because girls enter younger. I was a boy once... I followed the girls anywhere.
truthisfreedom
Oct 2012
#3
with any link that is remotely close to the subject to a peer review article this reply will
grantcart
Oct 2012
#43
Fat cells store estrogen, just like they store energy. Neither is used until the fat is burned.
sybylla
Oct 2012
#13
Well clearly it has to do with breastfeeding little circumcised boys at the Olive Garden.
grantcart
Oct 2012
#44
It's obviously the result of soy-based fake meat products being pushed by vegetarianists
slackmaster
Oct 2012
#47