Scientific Advantage "Men healed from flu faster than women"

Men have a weakened immune system compared to women, but when they suffer from influenza, the situation is different according to a new scientific study. The study, conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and published in the Journal of Sexuality Biology, found that men have a stronger immunity to the flu, compared to women who have need time to recover.

The authors of the study attempted to uncover the secret behind this, injecting live mice and human cells extracted from male males with a non-lethal dose of the "one and one" strain, one of the flu types.

The researchers found that male rats and human cells produced more amperégoline when they had the flu, which has been shown to play a role in tissue repair and development .

Scientists believe that increased production of amperigolin in male rats and male human cells has accelerated the recovery of influenza after learning that male rats producing less amphigiolin had a healing time similar for female mice. "The study leads us to the fact that females are experiencing slow tissue repair during the recovery period because of the lower production of amphirigolines," said the author of the study. 39; study Sabra Klein, badistant professor at Bloomberg School.

After the study team concluded that there is a potential link between amperégoline production and the flu recovery time, they did not not yet identified the cause, which makes men more likely to produce amperégoline.

But one of the explanations for this is the high levels of testosterone in men, because the researchers found that it also plays a role in protecting male rats against severe flu-like symptoms.