Are women weaker and more ill because of their hormons?

in #medicine7 years ago (edited)

Hi Steemer!
Today I did some research for my Dissertation and found some really interesting work on hormones of females in comparison to male hormones.
So I don't want to make this article hard to understand but I need to give you some informations heads up to follow me.

There is an autoimmune disease called Lupus (erythematodes) which you all definitly heared of if you watch TV.
If not, no problem - Lupus is a disease which affects women 3 times more than men. So your immune system recognizes your own body or at least some parts (organs) as the enemy and fights it. You skin will get rashes, your joints will hurt, your kidneys are starting to fail and so on. Heavy sun duration on your skin is one possible reason to activate this disease (there are more).

Until today doctors/scientists said women are more affected by this disease because of their hormones, which are different to mens hormones. Womens hormones are likely "weaker" than mens, so they cannot avoid those diseases.

So now the interesting part of the story. There is a female french scientist with which I spoke today.
She was researching exactly this disease because she does not believe that hormone theory.
Her experiment was stunning!!!

She used white mouses and inserted into them a mutation which is known to activate Lupus.
100% of the female mouses got the disease Lupus and only 30% of the male mouses.

Since she did not believe into the hormones theory, she changed something.

She extracted the bacteria of the gastrointestinal passage of the males and inserted them into the female mouses.
The other way around she extracted the bacteria flora of the gastrointestinal passage of the female mouses and inserted them into the male mouses.

Then again, she inserted the mutation which is known to activate Lupus.
Her results were following:

30% of the new female mouses activated lupus
100% of the new male mouses activated lupus

So she just showed generations of scientist that their believes on weak female hormones are stupidity and wrong.
It is not your hormones, your muscles, your immune system or anything else which helps your with those kind of diseases.
It is your bacteria flora.
I was so amazed by this study and I think I will start my own research in this area.

Let me think what you think about that!

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Wow! unfortunately sexism and ignorance has influenced a lot of scientific thought in the past I'm glad tides are changing and ignorance is being called out with actual facts on every front in society. I bet this research is going to be instrumental in finding better outcomes for people with lupus. Thanks for sharing

Yes it will help lupus patients but overall it will help with auto immune diseases, since people will research in another direction now.

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