Sentences with phrase «around puberty»

The production of this hormone is at its peak around puberty but slowly starts decreasing around middle age.
Girls tend to start dropping out of sports around puberty, although this decline doesn't usually happen for boys.
If you're not quite sure how to broach the tricky conversations around puberty, this is a great starting point.
Right around puberty, when sex hormones are working their magic on our reproductive systems, they're also heralding some pretty dramatic changes in our brains.
Emory University neuroscientist Larry Young, who studies perplexing social behaviours, said the imagined role of breasts changed from a source of nourishment to a source of sexual interest and pleasure around puberty, as a way of making women feel more bonded to their man.
It's not uncommon for teenagers to have trouble falling asleep before 11 p.m. School responsibilities and social distractions are two big reasons, but hormonal changes around puberty can also have a lot to do with teens» shifted sleep schedule.
This cycle goes on for years, usually peaking around puberty when we typically eat a lot of fast food, sugar and soda.
Growth hormone - responsive alopecia will cause significant hair loss that will normally affect male dogs and starting around puberty.
Thyroiditis is believed to start in most cases around puberty, and gradually progress through mid-life and old age to become clinically expressed hypothyroidism once thyroid glandular reserve has been depleted.
For male cats this occurs around puberty, and for female cats it occurs around the time they go into estrus (heat) for the first time.
Adjusting to the many changes that happen around puberty can be difficult for both parents and young people...
Some who work with adolescents, including Meg Kaplan, a psychologist at Columbia University who treats those convicted of sex offences, think it likely that some sexual tastes are formed around puberty.
Growth spurts — a rapid rise in height and weight — are most visible in the first year of life and around puberty, both periods when a tremendous amount of growth takes place in a short time.
Around puberty, adolescent egocentrism emerges, deeply affecting how 11 - 13 years feel about themselves.
But around puberty, when sex hormones shift into high gear, the balance begins to change.
Around puberty, a change in the body clock of adolescents and teens makes it hard for them to fall asleep as early as they used to
Around 10 per cent of young Australians experience same - sex attraction, most realising this around puberty.
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