hi all

At 16:37 1999/03/15 +0200, gerrit wrote, in part:
>I do not know if you had a look at the article in Time magazine
>with the cover story titled, "The truth about Women's bodies".
>Having been married to one for 22 years I thought I knew her
>body well (I NEVER attempted to understand her mind).
>If you did not read the article I include it underneath.
>More to be found on the website of Time at:
><http://www.time.com> .
>This made interesting reading and the reason why I share this here
>is that it be taken into consideration when we disuss medication
>and the effects thereof on the individual PWP, male and female...
>
>THE SEXES MARCH 8, 1999 VOL. 153 NO. 9 BY ALICE PARK...
>
>a woman's immune system displays an exquisite amount of control
>that a man's cannot replicate...
>
>women's heart attacks ... tend to show up as shortness of breath,
>fatigue and jaw pain, stretched out over hours rather than minutes...
>
>a U.S. government study is currently under way that aims to clarify
>how estrogen works on the heart, brain and breast...
>
>women tend to metabolize a number of drugs differently from men...
>
>male and female brains may respond differently to hormones and brain
>chemicals. Women produce less serotonin, a mood-regulating chemical,
>than men, and are more sensitive to changes in serotonin levels,
>which are in turn regulated by estrogen...
>
>even if a man and a woman eat the same thing, it may take the woman
>much longer to digest it. That leaves women three times as vulnerable
>to  chronic constipation as men and twice as likely to develop
>intestinal disorders...
>
>contrary to anecdotal stories, numerous studies have documented that
>women experience pain more acutely and more frequently than men,
>indicating that the sexes may detect and dampen pain differently...
>
>women responded more favorably than men to a class of pain relievers
>known as kappa opioids, including pentazocine, suggesting that
>receptors for inhibiting pain may vary by sex...
>
>women are less responsive than men to nonsteroidal
>anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen...


thank you, gerrit, for posting this article!

as one who experiences the 'profound' effects of female hormones
on my pd symptoms and/or my response to pd meds
for a minimum of 8 days out of every 30,
hormones and pd have been [almost]
my favourite subject

viz: using the search criteria "hormones AND paterson"
take a look in the pd list archives at:
     <http://james.parkinsons.org.uk/>

the lack of neurological and/or pd research in this area
constitutes something approaching gross negligence
in my humble opinion


janet

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