Posted on 08/01/2021 11:32:06 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
More men are dying from COVID-19 worldwide than women, and the potential reasons run the gamut from biology to bad habits.
“Some of the underlying reasons why COVID-19 may be more deadly for men than women may include the fact that heart disease is more common in elderly men than in elderly women,” Dr. Stephen Berger, an infectious disease expert and co-founder of the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON), told Healthline. “Studies also find that high blood pressure and liver disease are more prevalent in men and these all contribute to more negative outcomes with COVID-19.”
Enzymes and immune systems
A study published on May 10 reported that men men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women.
Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus to infect healthy cells, this may help to explain why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women, the researchers reported.
“Genetics may also play a big role,” Berger said. “Women, because of their extra X chromosome, have a stronger immune system and response to infections than men.”
“You can’t get away from biology and genetics,” agreed Salvatore J. Giorgianni, PharmD, a pharmacist and senior science advisor for the Men’s Health Network, which advocates for the health of men and boys.
The phenomenon actually prompted the launch of two clinical trials in the United States.
In these trials, scientists are giving men with COVID-19 sex hormones such as estrogen to see if that will help them recover from the illness.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthline.com ...
The Connection Between Low Testosterone and COVID-19
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“Recent findings have identified that the lower the levels of testosterone (low T), the higher the likelihood that male patients would require intensive care and intubation on a ventilator. These severe symptoms of COVID-19 also mean that those with low T experience longer hospital stays and have a higher risk of death from the disease. In fact, the likelihood of death for those with low T increased six-fold.”
There was an article yesterday that said low testosterone in men is common in the very sick and dead covid victims. Low T is common among men over 50 and continues to decrease as you get older.
“You can’t get away from biology and genetics,”
The AMA is trying to do just that. (No gender indicated on birth cert.)
its because of ADE
also a stronger immune system creates a larger cytokine storm, ie inflammation and fevers
thats why in 1918 healthy people died from the swine flu, their own immune systems went overboard and the result was death
Yeah, much better than Ivermectin.
Covid is entertainment now. Leisure time activity, human interest stories.
What a two-fear deal. Go into the hospital as a man with COVID and come out a woman.
Because there is worldwide institutional sexism against men.
Covid is entertainment now.
———— Agreed, since the first days of the Plandemic, I smelled the stench- no mask, then mask up, then double mask, hiding the statistics ( 65 plus dying of it, under 65, a 99.8 percent survival rate,….), censorship, no discussion allowed of ivermectin and other safe, proven preventive meds, no mention of the vax deaths and side effects ( Vaers), targeting Churches specifically, media scrubbing everything that questions the flu deaths, dying WITH Covid or dying FROM Covid, mass fear campaigns, forcing the jab for employment, paying to take the jab, forcing children who are not at risk to take the jab,….the list is becoming laughable, what is NOT laughable is the amount of Americans who rushed to get the experimental jab…
ex·per·i·men·tal | \ ik-ˌsper-ə-ˈmen-tᵊl also -ˌspir- \
1 : of, relating to, or based on experience or experiment
2a : serving the ends of or used as a means of experimentation
an experimental school
b : relating to or having the characteristics of experiment : TENTATIVE
still in the experimental stage
Berger said. “Women, because of their extra X chromosome, have a stronger immune system and response to infections than men.”
It seems to me that it is women who are chronically ill, repeatedly ill, or catch everything that comes around. I don’t know any men that get the “illness of the week” like some women do.
Because they have more stored iron.
Why is it hitting older people harder? Because they have more stored iron.
also a stronger immune system creates a larger cytokine storm, ie inflammation and fevers
I think young people have a strong immune system and many of them don’t even know they get it.
> In these trials, scientists are giving men with COVID-19 sex hormones such as estrogen to see if that will help them recover from the illness.
just what men need, more estrogen...
the world has now apparently gone full bore bizarro...
More lies by the media
just what men need, more estrogen...
Women have more progesterone than estrogen, so if one were to suggest a hormone, it would be progesterone.
Estrogen can be modified and have similar effects. The modified estrogen can be patented and sold.
When progesterone is modified, it doesn’t have similar effects.
The ability to get a patent is the reason why estrogen is mentioned and not progesterone.
Despite the lack of evidence to support the role of ACE inhibitor/ARB use on ACE2 expression and SARS-CoV-2 infectivity, the majority of experimental evidence actually supports the notion that ACE inhibitors and ARBs may attenuate Ang II-driven acute lung injury and fibrosis by reducing the actions of Ang II relative to Ang-(1–7)
Although some researchers expected the opposite.
Yep...men should be giving blood for many reasons...this could be one.
Thanks.
What is acasignups?
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