Thursday 28 July 2011

MEN LESS SUSCEPTIBLE THAN WOMEN TO INFLAMMATORY DISEASES!IT'S ALL DOWN TO TESTOSTERONE!

Men are less susceptible to inflammatory diseases and allergies than women suggests a study by  pharmacists at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. 


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TESTOSTERONE PROTECTS AGAINST INFLAMMATION


Based on their findings, the Jena pharmacist group concluded that the male sex hormones play a key role in the modulation of the immune response potentially explain another phenomenon that has been previously noted: testosterone can protect men from arteriosclerosis. 


Fascinatingly as is pointed out, new therapies are usually still more often being tested on male volunteers or patients,  but the Jena study indicates now that the results derived from male subjects cannot be immediately transcribed to women. 

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