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How Testosterone Protects against Inflammation
Institute of Pharmacy of Friedrich Schiller University Jena ^ | July 26, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 07/26/2011 10:13:19 AM PDT by decimon

Pharmacists of the University Jena analyze why men suffer more rarely from inflammatory diseases than women It’s all down to the testosterone: men are usually more muscular than women, they have deeper voices and more body hair. And – men are less susceptible to inflammatory diseases and allergies than women. This is also due to the male sex hormones as pharmacists at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) have shown in a recent study.

“It is mostly women who are affected by diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis or asthma“, Professor Dr. Oliver Werz from the Jena University explains. Although this is a fact known for some time, the reasons for these differences are largely unknown. As the Jena Professor for pharmaceutical and medical chemistry and his team have revealed now, sexual hormones play an important role in this. The researchers report about this in the current edition of the scientific journal ‘FASEB Journal’ (DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-182758).

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Based on these findings, the Jena pharmacists concluded that the male sex hormones play a key role in the modulation of the immune response. This would also explain another phenomenon that has been previously noticed, that is, testosterone can protect men from arteriosclerosis.

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(Excerpt) Read more at idw-online.de ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: health; inflammation; medicine; testosterone

1 posted on 07/26/2011 10:13:23 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

In before the Helen Thomas photos....


2 posted on 07/26/2011 10:27:43 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: decimon
Line up girls. Get your testesterone here!! Obama health says this will save the government billions if they don't have to put up with your whining. Girls...It's time to MAN UP!!

Of course it's satire until you read the stats of kids on drugs...because the government said so.

3 posted on 07/26/2011 10:43:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: decimon

bump


4 posted on 07/26/2011 10:52:10 AM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
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To: Sacajaweau

At 62, I was diagnosed with low T and was prescribed a testosterone gel. Not only did my aches and pains disappear, but I wake up with morning wood of an 18 year old.

All my aches and pains have jumped into my wife. Go figure.


5 posted on 07/26/2011 10:56:08 AM PDT by y6162
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To: decimon

I bet the former East German women’s weightlifting team knows a thing or two about this!


6 posted on 07/26/2011 10:57:18 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: decimon
... men are usually more muscular than women, they have deeper voices and more body hair.

Geez, that is not the case with the women in my circle.

7 posted on 07/26/2011 10:57:53 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: y6162

this reminds me of the “viagra divorces” when that pill first came out.

some older women were complaining that their husbands were amourous again. Apparently those women did not like “marital relations.”


8 posted on 07/26/2011 11:08:21 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: y6162

this reminds me of the “viagra divorces” when that pill first came out.

some older women were complaining that their husbands were amourous again. Apparently those women did not like “marital relations.”


9 posted on 07/26/2011 11:08:58 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: JohnG45
... men are usually more muscular than women, they have deeper voices and more body hair.

Geez, that is not the case with the women in my circle.

In your circle, the women have more muscles, deeper voices and more body hair?"

10 posted on 07/26/2011 11:10:59 AM PDT by decimon
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To: longtermmemmory

“viagra divorces”

Testosterone works much better.

No 1 hour wait...


11 posted on 07/26/2011 11:15:17 AM PDT by y6162
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To: y6162

“testosterone gel”

Do you eat it, or apply it to your business?


12 posted on 07/26/2011 11:28:22 AM PDT by right way right
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To: right way right

“testosterone gel”

Apply it like a skin cream.

AndroGel®
www.androgel.com


13 posted on 07/26/2011 11:32:10 AM PDT by y6162
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To: decimon
In your circle, the women have more muscles, deeper voices and more body hair?

Should I be suspicious?

14 posted on 07/26/2011 3:18:28 PM PDT by JohnG45
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To: decimon
And – men are less susceptible to inflammatory diseases and allergies than women.

That changes if you count heart disease and stroke as inflammatory diseases.

I just don't see any fun in the world if we start poisoning the women with testosterone.

15 posted on 07/26/2011 4:40:28 PM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


16 posted on 07/26/2011 5:09:23 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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