Men can make the same stress, as women, if you give them a bit of the female hormone estrogen. This conclusion was American scientists from the University of Buffalo.
It is known that women cope with stress much better than men, so they do not lose their presence of mind at the time of economic crisis, do not go into the bout because of unemployment and continue to not only educate their children, and pull your entire household, but also to work. Men are going through periods of life is much worse, as they are more susceptible to stress.
Scientists from the US have discovered that the enzyme aromatase, which converts androgens estrogen Responsible for feminine stress resistance . And if science was able to detect components that are similar to estrogen Which can be given to men without the fear of side effects in the form of growing breasts at the disposal of half of mankind would have been a very effective tool against stress.
In the experiment, male volunteers on scientists manipulated amount of estrogen in the brain and gradually increasing. And it is possible to increase the stress resistance men. The same manipulation to reduce estrogen levels, by contrast, reduced resistance to stress among women, which proves that this hormone plays a really important role.
When estrogen signaling in the brain was blocked by women, the study participants showed more vulnerable to stress than in the absence of a lock. Activation of these signals in males, on the contrary, significantly raised their stress resistance . (READ MORE)
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