Post: #1

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-med...fend-virus

Quote:“We see clinical potential in the finding that therapeutic estrogens that are used for treating infertility and menopause may also protect against the flu,” she added. As for men suffering from “man flu,” however, it looks like estrogen won’t help them out in the slightest.

One commentator

Quote:so just inject yourself with female hormones comes the next flu season.

Post: #2

This is one thing men stand to benefit from, so women are going to play the victim whether or not they're biologically better at fighting off infections.

Post: #3

I got a warning level for trollingly posting a RSD URL.

You're posting a URL to this slug and you're not even trolling...

Don't be doing that man.

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Post: #5

As confirmed by:

Bill Nye
Sam Harris
Unfuckable female in the picture above
Neil deGrasse Tyson
IFL Science
Richard Dawkins

Post: #6

And women still call in sick 40% more than men.

Post: #7

(01-15-2016 11:41 AM)Only One Man Wrote:  And women still call in sick 40% more than men.

Men only call in sick when they are really dangerously sick, otherwise they suck it up. If you're a man, you will get fired for being sick.

Post: #8

Man Flu?

Post: #9

"Mental health days"

Speaking of which I've overheard girls using their "bipolar" or whatever to get time off. I wouldn't dare pull that shit, or I should say I would feel like a little bitch pulling something like that.

Post: #10

I read somewhere that doctors treat male patients who are in extreme pain about 40% faster than the women who are.

The reason why is because women tend to exaggerate how much pain they're in. When a guy says it hurts, it probably does.

Anyhow, there's a lot of scientific circlejerking going around about why women can handle the flu better. The best one I found was that men have this evolutionary tradeoff where our immune systems are not as active as a woman's so smaller ailments tend to bother us more. However, a man has a much better chance of surviving a catastrophic injury because an overactive immune system would cause complications and kill you during the healing process.

Post: #11

I'll use my personal anecdotal observation and reasoning for why women are less affected by common ailments.

1.) They pamper themselves more when sick. They will stay in, bundle up, drink lots of fluids, load up on medicine, go to the doctor at even the slightest sign of any health issue. Girl's fuck around far less with their health than men. When myself or friends of mine are sick, we don't give a shit. We'll still go out, go to work, change our oil, cut wood, bang bitches, whatever. Will prolong the healing process but we don't care. I also hardly ever go to the doctor for anything unless I'm severely injured or deathly ill. Besides basic checkups, the only reason I have gone to the doctor in the past 5 years was for STD testing and when I tore my ACL.

2.) Most average women are more promiscuous than most average men. Therefor they are exposed to more germs and their immune system has the ability to get stronger. Makes sense to me.

3.) Their immune systems have to be strong in order to protect potential life they could harbor. It's purely biological survival.

Post: #12

(01-15-2016 03:15 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  I read somewhere that doctors treat male patients who are in extreme pain about 40% faster than the women who are.

The reason why is because women tend to exaggerate how much pain they're in. When a guy says it hurts, it probably does.

Anyhow, there's a lot of scientific circlejerking going around about why women can handle the flu better. The best one I found was that men have this evolutionary tradeoff where our immune systems are not as active as a woman's so smaller ailments tend to bother us more. However, a man has a much better chance of surviving a catastrophic injury because an overactive immune system would cause complications and kill you during the healing process.

I'm going with Hannibal here.

Quote:Davis speculates that high testosterone may provide another, less obvious evolutionary advantage. “Ask yourself which sex is more likely to clash violently with, and do grievous bodily harm to, others of their own sex,” he said. Men are prone to suffer wounds from their competitive encounters, not to mention from their traditional roles in hunting, defending kin and hauling things around, increasing their infection risk.

While it’s good to have a decent immune response to pathogens, an overreaction to them — as occurs in highly virulent influenza strains, SARS, dengue and many other diseases — can be more damaging than the pathogen itself. Women, with their robust immune responses, are twice as susceptible as men to death from the systemic inflammatory overdrive called sepsis. So perhaps, Davis suggests, having a somewhat weakened (but not too weak) immune system can prove more lifesaving than life-threatening for a dominant male in the prime of life.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2...finds.html

Post: #13

^ With regards to what Hannibal and kleyau have said, I've also heard this is why women have more auto-immune diseases.

Edit:

Quote:Men only call in sick when they are really dangerously sick, otherwise they suck it up. If you're a man, you will get fired for being sick.

Haha, if I'm not dying, then I'll just drink more water. Water fixes everything.

Post: #14

Men have always been more expendable, which makes sense given that we don't carry the unborn. If women's immune systems were very poor, we wouldn't have the next generation. Women also tend to take much better care of themselves when sick, meaning they will recover faster. They also tend to be more cautious about using things like Lysol, Purrell, etc. to avoid getting sick the first place.

Post: #15

I was pretty sick with a hold this year on New Years Eve. I worked the morning, spent the whole afternoon in bed and then got up and hosted a party for 20 people. Everyone had a great time.

I later banged one of the girls, after I healed up.

Post: #16

(01-15-2016 06:12 PM)Suits Wrote:  I was pretty sick with a hold this year on New Years Eve. I worked the morning, spent the whole afternoon in bed and then got up and hosted a party for 20 people. Everyone had a great time.

I later banged one of the girls, after I healed up.

Post: #17

My own experience with women tell me otherwise, many women I know are prone to prolong sickness. I believe what I see, not some nonsense a cow puked up on the internet.

My conclusion: Men are better.

Post: #18

I'll tell you one thing, for allegedly having healthier constitution they sure to blow of a lot of dates via text on the basis of being sick.