The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
We know the difference
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
We know the difference
We’ve discussed the greater ease with which women interpret non-verbal cues, so it won’t come as a surprise that women use more of them to communicate as well. Women tend to use facial expressions, verbal rhythm and tone, and physical gestures to convey information and emotion.
The end of a romantic relationship is truly agonizing. I remember feeling furious as I imagined the cad who might one day break my daughter’s heart. At the time, my husband consoled me by pointing out that she was five years old and safe—at least for a while.
Perhaps our difficulties in successfully talking to one another have to do with inaccuracies in the way we analyze the information we’re given.
One of the most startling and unexpected events in sports is the sudden death during the play of a young athlete. Herodotus recorded the death of the Athenian’s fleetest runner, Pheidippides, who had been sent to seek help from Sparta during the Persian invasion; he ran 167 miles to reach the Spartans, the raced back to the Athenians with the news that the Spartans had refused to help. He then fought in the Battle of Marathon, in which the Greeks triumphed over the Persians. As soon as the victory was secured, he ran 26 miles at top speed to bring the Athenians the wonderful news. On arriving, he gasped out his message, “We have won!” and fell down dead-but his feat inspired the 26.2-mile footrace we call the marathon today.
Depression has a widespread and devastating impact on health. It is associated with disturbances in the endocrine, cardiovascular and immune systems as well as affecting bone health. The risk of coronary artery disease is three times higher among men with a diagnosis of depression; interestingly, there is no increased risk for women.
One of the very first questions I get when I’m learning about the implications of the sex differences between men and women is, “Why are we only just learning about this now?”
Because, for much of the time that we’ve been doing real medical research, we haven’t studied women, we’ve studied only men. But why?
Bad Breath is such a common complaint that there are actually breath clinics springing up up around the country that specialize in treating this problem. In fact, it has been estimated that about 25 million Americans have a problem with bd breath at some point in their lives.