05-10-2012, 20:35
(This post was last modified: 05-10-2012, 20:35 by mochaccino.)
I found something! http://aitlvideo.uc.edu/aitl/NewLaBarb/3-3-2creditTannerStages.swf
Unfortunately it looks like girls do NOT have higher sex hormone levels during puberty as compared to adulthood. It turns out that all those dumb TV jokes are wrong, and teenagers do not have tons of excess hormones compared to adults. Instead the hormones start out at almost nothing (which is no surprise), and then they slowly rise to adult levels, at which point puberty ends. As far as I can tell, the hormone levels shown for tanner stage 5 are just normal adult hormone levels, except that FSH seems to be high. In other words, recreating puberty is like unbaking a cake. Clearly my plan to imitate puberty is a dead end.
Unfortunately it looks like girls do NOT have higher sex hormone levels during puberty as compared to adulthood. It turns out that all those dumb TV jokes are wrong, and teenagers do not have tons of excess hormones compared to adults. Instead the hormones start out at almost nothing (which is no surprise), and then they slowly rise to adult levels, at which point puberty ends. As far as I can tell, the hormone levels shown for tanner stage 5 are just normal adult hormone levels, except that FSH seems to be high. In other words, recreating puberty is like unbaking a cake. Clearly my plan to imitate puberty is a dead end.