Estrogen recycling by the gut microbiome: Why it matters, how we differ, and the role of lifestyle factors

Rebecca Shae Anna Brittain^1,2, Grazyna Jasienska², Richard Gutierrez Bribiescas¹

¹Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; ²Department of Environmental Health, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

How prenatal psychological distress relates to a novel marker of placental activity among pregnant Latina women

Delaney Knorr^1,2, Yazhen Zhu^3,4, Hsian-Rong Tseng⁴, Molly Fox^1,5

¹Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ²Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC; ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ⁴California NanoSystems Institute, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ⁵Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Does C-reactive protein (CRP) vary with photoperiod in healthy adult women native to circumpolar environments?

Virginia J. Vitzthum^1,2,3, Jonathan Thornburg^3,4, Bryndis Eva Birgisdottir⁵, Geir Gunnlaugsson⁶, Emily M. Chester^1,7, Adrian A. Franke⁸, Xingnan Li⁸, Thomas W. McDade⁹, Aaron A. Miller⁹, Paul Schulz¹⁰, Brady T. West¹⁰

¹Department of Medicine, Centre for Menstrual Cycle & Ovulation Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ²Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, US; ³BKIS Orchards, Thetis Island, British Columbia, Canada; ⁴Department of Astronomy and Center for Spacetime Symmetries, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, US; ⁵Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; ⁶Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology, and Folkloristics, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; ⁷College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, US; ⁸University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, US; ⁹Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US; ¹⁰Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Differences in the timing of hot flashes and night sweats during sleep

Sofiya Shreyer¹, Sarah Witkowski², Daniel Brown³, Lynnette Sievert¹

¹University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA; ²Smith College, Northampton, MA; ³University of Hawaii at Hilo, HI

Adverse childhood experiences and the menopausal transition among midlife Latine immigrants living in an agricultural community in Salinas, California

SA Geisel-Zamora¹, AW Kim¹, KG Harley², J Deardorff², KR Kogut², M Warner², LE Calderon³, B Eskenazi², JM Torres³

¹Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA; ²School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA; ³Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Oxytocin throughout the life course: a sex-specific mediator of life history

Abigail Elise Colby¹, Charlotte Debras¹, Dominik Jud¹, Valerie Baettig¹, Jordan Scott Martin¹, Camila Scaff¹, Michael Gurven², Benjamin Trumble³, Adrian Victor Jaeggi¹

¹University of Zurich, Switzerland; ²University of California Santa Barbara, CA; ³Arizona State University, AZ