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Teen STAR

The TeenSTAR program is for young women and men: • Girls learn to identify bodily signs that indicate impending ovulation and to identify the day closest to ovulation by its characteristics. They discover that the time from ovulation until the next period is the same in each cycle. They can predict when their next period will come and be prepared for it. • They learn that estrogen is the dominant hormone before ovulation, and that it releases endorphins, which usually lead to feeling extroverted and upbeat. After ovulation progesterone is dominant. One of its breakdown products is allopregnanolone, which relieves anxiety. Women often feel introspective in the time of progesterone dominance. • Two to three days before the period is due both estrogen and progesterone levels drop, allowing the small amount of male hormone that women possess to become prominent. Testosterone is the hormone of aggression. If that aggression is turned outward, the woman has a short fuse, if turned inward it is depression — not pathological, but the normal cyclic variation. Understanding these hormonal influences makes it possible to adjust one’s responses, and gives one a greater sense of self-control. The TeenSTAR program, is for young men: • While men, obviously, don’t have monthly cycles, young men need accurate information about the physical, emotional and intellectual changes that come with puberty, as well as a chance to raise and discuss their questions about them with a man. The teacher will help them understand themselves better and live into their developing maturity.